亚洲网紅露点

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castaway

[ kast-uh-wey, kahst- ]

noun

  1. a shipwrecked person.
  2. anything cast adrift or thrown away.
  3. an outcast.

    Synonyms: , ,



adjective

  1. cast adrift.
  2. thrown away.

castaway

/ 藞办蓱藧蝉迟蓹藢飞别瑟 /

noun

  1. a person who has been shipwrecked
  2. something thrown off or away; castoff
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

adjective

  1. shipwrecked or put adrift
  2. thrown away or rejected
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

verb

  1. tr, adverb; often passive to cause (a ship, person, etc) to be shipwrecked or abandoned
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of castaway1

First recorded in 1520鈥30; noun, adj. use of verb phrase cast away
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The coastguard said a French Navy Dauphin helicopter was monitoring the area where the boat sank "to confirm the successful recovery of all the castaways".

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His ancestry is ambiguous, and he is described in the book as "a dark-skinned gipsy" and "a little Lascar, or an American or Spanish castaway".

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Years later when a shred of aircraft aluminum and the rubber heel from a woman鈥檚 shoe were found on an island 400 miles from Earhart鈥檚 destination, she was imagined to have been a castaway.

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This show, 46 seasons in and still going strong, returns with the host Jeff Probst and 18 castaways who are headed to Fiji to compete and survive.

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He was a contestant on the 32nd season of 鈥淪urvivor,鈥 where he was voted out on Day 27 with eight castaways remaining.

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