rambling的意思|rambling的解释-里氏词典

rambling ['ræmbliŋ]

a. 漫步的, 布局零乱的, 散漫的

rambling

[ adj ]

spreading out in different directions

<adj.all>

sprawling handwriting

straggling branches

straggly hair

(of e.g. speech and writing) tending to depart from the main point or cover a wide range of subjects

<adj.all>

amusingly digressive with satirical thrusts at women's fashions among other things

a rambling discursive book

his excursive remarks

a rambling speech about this and that

of a path e.g.

<adj.all>

meandering streams

rambling forest paths

the river followed its wandering course

a winding country road

Rambling \Ram"bling\ (r[a^]m"bl[i^]ng), a.
Roving; wandering; discursive; as, a rambling fellow, talk,
or building.

Ramble \Ram"ble\ (r[a^]m"b'l), v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Rambled}
(r[a^]m"b'ld); p. pr. & vb. n. {Rambling} (r[a^]m"bl[i^]ng).]
[For rammle, fr. Prov. E. rame to roam. Cf. {Roam}.]
1. To walk, ride, or sail, from place to place, without any
determinate object in view; to roam carelessly or
irregularly; to rove; to wander; as, to ramble about the
city; to ramble over the world.

He that is at liberty to ramble in perfect darkness,
what is his liberty better than if driven up and
down as a bubble by the wind? --Locke.

2. To talk or write in a discursive, aimless way.

3. To extend or grow at random. --Thomson.

Syn: To rove; roam; wander; range; stroll.

By late morning, he was under interrogation in the capital's rambling Regina Coeli prison on the banks of the Tiber. It was a sobering experience.
It was 40 minutes shorter and infinitely more entertaining than the rambling four hours last year.
The rambling conversation ended Tuesday night with his arrest.
Other lawyers on Mrs. Marcos' four-lawyer team, of which Spence was the leader, said his rambling opening statement and shambling courtroom manner had got him off to a bad start and that things had steadily deteriorated.
IN ONE of his recent rambling discourses with the press, President George Bush transmitted a succinct message to Congress.
If not, it would have been preferable to hear the band explain it through retrospective liner notes, instead of the rambling reminiscence of a roadie included here.
Outside this drowsy town, a hodgepodge of huts, overgrown with rambling purple creepers, is all that's left of "the camp of slow death" _ once the most feared prison of Portugal's African empire.
Before he was sentenced, the 29-year-old Texas killer, wearing dark glasses, uttered a rambling, nearly inaudible statement in court that ended with the words: "Lucifer dwells within us all." "You don't understand me.
Some GEC executives believe Marconi needs radical surgery. 'There are two world class operations struggling to get out of a rambling, sprawling business,' says one director.
You're playing to people sitting in their living rooms." Greer recalled that Reagan was briefed in so much detail for his first debate with Mondale four years ago that he gave a somewhat rambling, stumbling performance.
The letters are almost invariably long, far longer, rambling, repetitive and anecdotal than ordinary business letters, but otherwise unsually well presented.
A long, rambling cable arrived from Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev during the night.
Worst speech: Tyne Daly's rambling thank you in which she kept reminding the audience that she only had 30 seconds in which to speak and then proceeded to ignore her own time limit for several minutes.
Is it worth it to commit one life, put one life in harm's way to achieve these objectives?" Somberly he continued in a rambling discourse: -He knows the horror of war; he has been in war.
After a childhood spent in New York, Newport, and rambling through Europe, she married Teddy Wharton in 1885.
It is a sprawling, unfocused saga, as rambling and wide-open as the spaces it celebrates in the Wild West of the 1860s.
In a day of fraught, sometimes rambling testimony, Wedtech Corp. founder John Mariotta said illiteracy kept him from knowing about the illegal goings-on at his scandal-plagued company.
Diplomats and other guests sat before the platform under a brilliant sun on the eastern side of the rambling, colonial-style mansion.
A few sets have no translation at all; others do, along with rambling essays in odd English and photographs of extremely handsome conductors.
A rambling letter from a Brother Gabriel at a monastery in Big Sur, Calif., raves about the product.
The gunman has vowed in rambling letters to police and the news media to shoot one person for each of the 12 signs of the Zodiac.
Since medieval times, the Louvre has evolved from a turreted fairy-tale castle to a stiff-backed royal palace to a rambling pile of galleries rendered charmless by noisy crowds and by I.M. Pei's pyramidal glass entrance.
In interviews, rambling on wittily in the hour before he went to see his psychiatrist, Mr. Roth also managed to insert enough random obscenity so as to be unquotable altogether in a family magazine.
In his rambling address in French and Arabic, Ben Bella hailed radical Arab leaders and their causes.
"I resent it, and I'm going to fight back." In an often rambling, three-hour discourse in her spacious living room, which is stuffed with equine art, Mrs. Everett displays an emotional gamut.
Rumpled and avuncular, Sen. Lautenberg has a friendly, gap-toothed smile, and a folksy, rambling style.
About three weeks after she was kidnapped, her husband received a letter in her handwriting urging him to pay off 12 disgruntled investors named in a rambling letter left in the house the day she disappeared.
He treats the operating theatre much like the stage, but admits that even when operations appear to work, it is not always clear why. There is some intellectual rambling.
Broussard, who testified under a 1987 law that allows crime victims or their families to speak at sentencing, broke down once during his rambling, 20-minute testimony.
The editor of Pravda says he survived a mutiny by reporters, who want to raise plummeting circulation by replacing rambling speech text with more lively copy.

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