Wander
['wɒndə] or ['wɑndɚ]
解释:
(verb.) go via an indirect route or at no set pace; 'After dinner, we wandered into town'.
贝弗莉录入--From WordNet
解释:
(v. i.) To ramble here and there without any certain course or with no definite object in view; to range about; to stroll; to rove; as, to wander over the fields.
(v. i.) To go away; to depart; to stray off; to deviate; to go astray; as, a writer wanders from his subject.
(v. i.) To be delirious; not to be under the guidance of reason; to rave; as, the mind wanders.
(v. t.) To travel over without a certain course; to traverse; to stroll through.
校对:帕蒂
同义词及近义词:
v. n. [1]. Ramble, roam, rove, stroll, straggle, range, range about, gad about.[2]. Deviate, swerve, stray, digress, turn aside, go astray.[3]. Be delirious, be crazed.
整理:罗威娜
解释:
v.i. to ramble with no definite object: (lit. or fig.) to go astray: to leave home; to depart from the subject: to be delirious: (coll.) to lose one's way.—v.t. to traverse: (coll.) to lead astray.—n. Wan′derer.—adj. Wan′dering.—adv. Wan′deringly in a wandering uncertain or unsteady manner.—Wandering Jew a legendary Jew in the folklore of north-western Europe who cannot die but must wander till the Day of Judgment for an insult offered to Christ on the way to the Crucifixion—various names given him are Cartaphilus Isaac Laquedom and Buttadeus.
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例句:
- When she had gone Archer stood up and began to wander about. 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
- She would wander out at night to get food, and returned home, pleased that she had met no one, that she was in no danger from the plague. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
- Sweet one, and I folded her to my heart, better repose than wander further;--rest--my beloved, I will make a fire--you are chill. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
- Don't turn me out of doors to wander in the streets again. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
- Idris had visited me; Idris I should again and again see--my imagination did not wander beyond the completeness of this knowledge. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
- One wants to wander away from the world's somewheres, into our own nowhere. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
- You wander: your head becomes confused. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
- She stood up and wandered across the room. 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
- She had only to say in reply, that they had wandered about, till she was beyond her own knowledge. 简·奥斯汀. 傲慢与偏见.
- Where, to what distance apart, had her father wandered, led by doubts which were to her temptations of the Evil One? 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
- She had wandered away to a subject on which Elinor had nothing to say, and therefore soon judged it expedient to find her way back again to the first. 简·奥斯汀. 理智与情感.
- For a brief time I wandered, in the sweet guiding of love, far from the purpose to which I had been true under sterner discipline and in darker days. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- No one, however, appeared to profit by the opportunity; and after a half hour of fruitless waiting she rose and wandered on. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
- The next was written at another time: I have wandered a long distance, and for many hours, and I know that I must soon die. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
- Wandering seemed to her like restlessness, dissatisfaction. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
- You must be wandering in your mind, partner,' Silas remonstrated. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
- Wandering savages or the inhabitants of open plains rarely possess more than one breed of the same species. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
- The papers were then brought home again, and the boys amused themselves to their hearts' content until the line was pulled down by a stray cow wandering through the orchard. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- I am, however, wandering from my subject. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
- Can it be a wandering dog that has come in from the street and crept and nestled hither? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
- Beneath a cluster of these which afforded perfect concealment from wandering air scouts, we lay down to sleep--for me the first time in many hours. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
- And the natural consequence is, as anybody but a baby might have foreseen, that he prowls and wanders. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
- When you feel it in your stomach, your attention wanders, and you begin to fidget. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
- But though Peggotty's eye wanders, she is much offended if mine does, and frowns to me, as I stand upon the seat, that I am to look at the clergyman. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
- Like a stray sheep that wanders over the sleet-beaten hill-side, while the flock is in the pen, and dies before morning-dawn. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
- You will find him at Dunkeld; gentle and tractable he wanders up the hills, and through the wood, or sits listening beside the waterfall. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
- The mind wanders from the nominal subject and devotes itself to what is intrinsically more desirable. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
- Reflective dealings with the material of instruction is constrained and half-hearted; attention wanders. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
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