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 wander ['wɒndә]   添加此单词到默认生词本
vi. 游荡, 漫步, 徘徊, 迷路, 离题, 蜿蜒

vt. 在...漫游

[法] 流浪汉; 徘徊, 漫步, 流浪




    wander
    [ verb ]
    1. move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment

    2. <verb.motion> cast drift ramble range roam roll rove stray swan tramp vagabond
      The gypsies roamed the woods
      roving vagabonds
      the wandering Jew
      The cattle roam across the prairie
      the laborers drift from one town to the next
      They rolled from town to town
    3. be sexually unfaithful to one's partner in marriage

    4. <verb.social>
      betray cheat cheat on cuckold
      She cheats on her husband
      Might her husband be wandering?
    5. go via an indirect route or at no set pace

    6. <verb.motion>
      After dinner, we wandered into town
    7. to move or cause to move in a sinuous, spiral, or circular course

    8. <verb.motion>
      meander thread weave wind
      the river winds through the hills
      the path meanders through the vineyards
      sometimes, the gout wanders through the entire body
    9. lose clarity or turn aside especially from the main subject of attention or course of argument in writing, thinking, or speaking

    10. <verb.communication>
      digress divagate stray
      She always digresses when telling a story
      her mind wanders
      Don't digress when you give a lecture


    Wander \Wan"der\, v. t.
    To travel over without a certain course; to traverse; to
    stroll through. [R.] ``[Elijah] wandered this barren waste.''
    --Milton.


    Wander \Wan"der\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Wandered}; p. pr. & vb.
    n. {Wandering}.] [OE. wandren, wandrien, AS. wandrian; akin
    to G. wandern to wander; fr. AS. windan to turn. See {Wind}
    to turn.]
    1. 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.

    They wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins.
    --Heb. xi. 37.

    He wandereth abroad for bread. --Job xv. 23.

    2. To go away; to depart; to stray off; to deviate; to go
    astray; as, a writer wanders from his subject.

    When God caused me to wander from my father's house.
    --Gen. xx. 13.

    O, let me not wander from thy commandments. --Ps.
    cxix. 10.

    3. To be delirious; not to be under the guidance of reason;
    to rave; as, the mind wanders.

    Syn: To roam; rove; range; stroll; gad; stray; straggly; err;
    swerve; deviate; depart.

    1. And like a sitcom, it has lots of chuckles, mostly arising around the house, as friends wander in and out.
    2. From their original base in Persia, Ismailis began to wander across North Africa, and, among their accomplishments, they founded Cairo.
    3. Without the twin engines of falling interest rates and rising earnings projections, big-stock indexes have little to do but wander.
    4. "As you wander the streets, there's a sense of scale that is such that a human being is welcome," said Esolen. "You can imagine yourself in every nook and cranny, in the light of a balcony window, the glimpse of a patio.
    5. People wander around, double back, get lost.
    6. "I didn't have to wander around and beg," he said.
    7. They allowed reporters to wander about the ships to which they were assigned.
    8. "It's one of those things that applies to my trade, which is signs," he said. "It's part of smelling the roses." Ducks congregate along the stretch of road near Boone Lake and often wander into the road.
    9. Downing Street used to be open to anyone to wander along for a look at the modest building housing the head of government.
    10. We wander through the web of narrow cobbled lanes lined with half-timbered houses of bottle-glass windows and overhanging gables.
    11. An even larger irony is that the churches' religious leaders decided to wander off to other concerns in the very years when many people could have used the most help trying to make sense of the overwhelming pace of change in American culture.
    12. I was first taken to 640 as a 10-year-old boy by my father to a Christmas afternoon reception and let loose in a grave way to wander through the rooms and hall, and the Demidoff vase is what struck me most.
    13. Smith told police that he sometimes lived at Bellevue and had a bed on the 22nd floor, and would wander through the hospital without problems while wearing a stethoscope and hospital garb, Ward said.
    14. The sterile flies may wander into homes, but pose no health threat to humans, and most people won't notice them, Ms. Curry said.
    15. "They wander about each in his own direction." Rabbi David Sperling of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion said the strong condemnations of divination (early astrology) were because of its ties to idolatry, contrary to Judaism.
    16. That problem, simply put, is that the mentally ill require treatment which they are incapable of seeking for themselves. All the funds and group homes in the world are of no avail so long as residents can wander as they please and refuse medication.
    17. Prison camps such as Lompoc are referred to as country club prisons or "Club Fed" because of the privileges inmates receive. Prisoners can wander about freely, jog, play tennis or lawn bowl. Guards are unarmed.
    18. Marilyn Monroe look-alikes and original Munchkins from the movie "The Wizard of Oz" will wander the paneled hallways.
    19. The chords modulate, but there is little filigree even though his fingers begin to wander over more of the keys.
    20. Not long ago I left a comfortable bed to wander the Lisbon waterfront at just such a moment -three o'clock on a cold winter's morning.
    21. In a relaxed, meditative frame of mind one can let one's thoughts wander as Glass's music winds on, and still register the big, glacial shifts when they make themselves felt.
    22. But Sylvie and Ruthie stage a disappearance, cover their tracks and wander off.
    23. Mr. Berry has blamed the child's parents for allowing the child to wander too close to the dog.
    24. In and out of his life wander a dog, a wife, two daughters, a painter friend and a Chinese visitor.
    25. They wander about freely.
    26. "We want them out there giving good service." At Delta headquarters, workers frequently wander into the executive suite, where Messrs. Allen and Hawkins have adjacent offices, to offer suggestions.
    27. "For a long time, it was dangerous to wander around here," Mr. Terziev notes.
    28. On spring nights, pearls of light from lanterns and campfires sparkle along Chicago's dark seawalls and breakwaters as thousands of people wait for tiny silvery fish to wander into their nets.
    29. When food is scarce, usually in the summer when they are eating the most, bears occasionally wander into towns and dumps looking for food.
    30. Most miners keep firearms to greet both bears and visitors who wander too close to their sluices.
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