loitering 的 2 个定义
- the act of lingering aimlessly or as if aimlessly in or about a place: A cluster of teens gathered in front of the plaza were charged with violating a city bylaw against loitering.
- the act of moving in a slow, idle manner, with purposeless stops: His celebration of loitering as the best form of travel will resonate with anyone who has ever dared toss away a tourist map.
- the act of wasting time or dawdling over work: As film director Jean Renoir notes, “The foundation of all civilization is loitering” because it gives time for creative thinking.
- lingering aimlessly, moving slowly and idly, or wasting time: Fossil fuels may not remain plentiful long enough to underwrite such a loitering transition to renewable energy.
loitering 近义词
hang around; stroll
更多loitering例句
- In addition to the drone swarm and underwater robots, the exercise featured a human-portable loitering munition, a kind of semi-autonomous flying weapon that can receive orders from a human operator to attack a selected target.
- We’re loitering up top when we see, rising from behind a knuckle of rock, the telltale dust cloud of our truck spinning its wheels.
- They could not have been nicer, and they sent an officer by and presumably told the kids not to loiter in the parking lot, and the kids left the area.
- Many officers concluded it wasn’t worth the hassle to arrest someone for relatively minor offenses, such as public disturbance or loitering, the former officer said.
- Now, with the publication of ‘Loitering,’ the uninitiated can discover what all the fuss is about.
- Reading Loitering I thought about David Foster Wallace a lot.
- The issue has quickly turned from the supposed issue at hand—namely, is he "loitering" in a place that forbids it?
- An absentee father is loitering about with his son and namesake, Mason Jr., at a deserted concert hall.
- Nor did we cruise in the singles bar or Christopher Street sense, loitering with sexual intent.
- They were slowing down at a station and there were no less than three picturesque looking young fellows loitering about the place.
- Then off would roam Sally, perhaps loitering around fair Ingleside, or returning to her beloved pine woods and leafy oak-tree.
- She tried to drop behind; but the team had an infinite capacity for loitering.
- He was a bird of affairs; he had too much on his mind for loitering.
- She questioned a peasant who was loitering near the drawbridge.