0 a poor person who lives by asking others for money or food -- 乞丐，叫花子
1 to make a person or organization, etc. extremely poor -- 使（人或組織等）極度貧窮
The urban reform and revolutions in the early twentieth century did not change the situation of beggars, who survived until the early 1950s.
One such question is whether the beggars we encounter on the streets of our cities are hungry or homeless.
The most impressive aspects of this book are the research work with beggars.
The expulsion of ' undesirable ' persons became a common resort, including not only political activists or purportedly subversive agents, but also beggars, thieves, drunkards and others.
The best players were divided between them, the rest were packed off to the provinces or driven out of town as beggars.
The significance of the fact that it was the poor, beggars and vagrants who were accused of arson will be addressed later.
He studied times, places, different types of beggars - almost even the clothes that they wore - to heighten the effect that they created.
At noon, the beggars who aroused the least repugnance were to call at houses in carefully selected streets.
