As a social phenomenon, mendicancy exists in the world generally.

乞讨，作为一种社会现象在世界范围内普遍存在。

It did not exactly beggar description, but it certainly had that word on the lookout for the mendicancy squad.

尽管难以用笔墨形容，可它真真够得上乞丐帮这个词儿。