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castaway

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++cast·a·way /ˈkɑːstəweɪ $ ˈkæst-/ noun [countable]  ALONEsomeone who is left alone on an island after their ship has sunk 船沉后漂流到孤岛的人
Examples from the Corpus
castawayCarwyn seemed like a castaway on a desert island.Ramsay has likened the situation in many towns to that of a castaway on a tropical island.Essentially, Hannah was a castaway of life.Alvin Sharpes had a deep and endless collection and I began to draw from his castaways.Day and night are compressed into an eight hour day, so you see everything our castaway hero can get up to.One by one, as the castaways died, their colleagues stacked the corpses in barrels.Her friends begged her to wear one of their castaways, but the stoic Eleanor refused.She has been rescued by a young castaway named Vicki.
cast·a·way nounChineseSyllable
someone after Corpus island on an left who is alone


castaway
castaway /ˈkɑːstəweɪ $ ˈkæst-/ noun [countable]
someone who is left on a lonely shore or island after their ship has sunk


cast·awayBrE /ˈkɑːstəweɪ/ 🔊NAmE /ˈkæstəweɪ/ 🔊 nouna person whose ship has sunk (= who has been shipwrecked) and who has had to swim to a lonely place, usually an island (沉船后)游泳逃生到孤岛等荒僻处的人