Errant
['er(ə)nt] or ['ɛrənt]
解释:
(adj.) uncontrolled motion that is irregular or unpredictable; 'an errant breeze' .
(adj.) straying from the right course or from accepted standards; 'errant youngsters' .
手打:波莉--From WordNet
解释:
(a.) Wandering; deviating from an appointed course, or from a direct path; roving.
(a.) Notorious; notoriously bad; downright; arrant.
(a.) Journeying; itinerant; -- formerly applied to judges who went on circuit and to bailiffs at large.
(n.) One who wanders about.
琼整理
同义词及近义词：
a. Wandering, roving, rambling.
手打:斯坦
解释:
adj. wandering: roving: wild: (obs.) thorough (cf. Arrant).—n. a knight-errant.—adv. Err′antly.—n. Err′antry an errant or wandering state: a rambling about like a knight-errant.
编辑:罗伊
例句:
- Besides, I have late experience, that errant thieves are not the worst men in the world to have to deal with. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- Nonsense, errant nonsense, as ever was talked! 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
- She yearned towards the perfect Right, that it might make a throne within her, and rule her errant will. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
- He said it in a very agony, and even followed it with an errant motion of his hands as if he could have torn himself. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
- He hesitated whether to address the King as the Black Knight-errant, or in what other manner to demean himself towards him. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- I can't turn knight-errant, and undertake to redress every individual case of wrong in such a city as this. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
- The errant knight, his master, must needs pass us toll-free. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
编辑:罗伊