picaresque

an episode in a picaresque novel.

流浪汉中的一个片断

picaresque novels; waifs of the picaresque tradition; a picaresque hero.

传；传中传统的流浪者形象；传式的英雄。

waifs of the picaresque tradition;

传中传统的流浪者形象；

a paper tracing the descent of the novel from old picaresque tales.

追溯古老的传故事演化到的论文

this novel also follows and yet ironizes many of the conventions of the picaresque narrative.

这部虽落了流浪汉题材的许多俗套，但也讽刺了这些俗套。