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itinerant

/ahy-tin-er-uhnt, ih-tin-/US // aɪˈtɪn ər ənt, ɪˈtɪn- //UK // (ɪˈtɪnərənt, aɪ-) //

流浪者,行脚,流动人口,流浪汉

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : traveling from place to place, especially on a circuit, as a minister, judge, or sales representative; itinerating; journeying.
    • : characterized by such traveling: itinerant preaching.
    • : working in one place for a comparatively short time and then moving on to work in another place, usually as a physical or outdoor laborer; characterized by alternating periods of working and wandering: an itinerant farm hand.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a person who alternates between working and wandering.
    • : a person who travels from place to place, especially for duty or business.

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Examples

  • Instead, the 101-year-old recalls a childhood marked by grueling labor and an itinerant lifestyle.

  • Nomadland, a drama about itinerant workers traveling the American West, won best picture.

  • Now those orange itinerants are showing up in far fewer numbers.

  • Fern’s friend Linda May tips her off to an annual gathering of “nomads,” as the itinerant older seasonal workers call themselves.

  • Neutral backgrounds free of visual distractions can help even more, says Carola Martinez, an itinerant teacher of deaf and hard-of-hearing students in New York City public schools.

  • Unlike Brunner, Remer was itinerant, and spent much time in that other nest of postwar Nazis—Cairo.

  • Bright is forty-five now, a baseball itinerant since the day he signed a contract with the Yankees at the age of sixteen.

  • In the meantime, he continued his itinerant existence, sometimes living for months in his Airstream trailer with no phone.

  • This 13th-century fresco of a lion was painted near Burgos in Spain, probably by an itinerant English artist from Winchester.

  • The same might be said of another delicately handsome itinerant, T. E. Lawrence.

  • She is thirty-five now, quite plain, and makes a living as a sort of itinerant housekeeper and caterer.

  • This itinerant merchant was commissioned to haunt the Kano gate until impatience or curiosity should fling it wide for him.

  • The circuits of the Justices Itinerant were restored, and appeals to the king in Council were established.

  • The Collahuayas of Peru were a guild of itinerant quacks and magicians, who never remained permanently in one spot.

  • Its chapels multiplied in the great towns, and its itinerant missionaries penetrated to the most secluded districts.