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peripatetic

/per-uh-puh-tet-ik/US // ˌpɛr ə pəˈtɛt ɪk //UK // (ˌpɛrɪpəˈtɛtɪk) //

流动性,流动性的,周游世界,巡回演出

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : walking or traveling about; itinerant.
    • : of or relating to Aristotle, who taught philosophy while walking in the Lyceum of ancient Athens.
    • : of or relating to the Aristotelian school of philosophy.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a person who walks or travels about.
    • : a member of the Aristotelian school.

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Examples

  • Born into poverty, he led a peripatetic life, which included a stint in the circus.

  • Instead, knowing that Saudi law will force her to give up Hanadi to Muneer when she turns 7, Saeedah absconds with her daughter, embarking on a peripatetic life of deception that will haunt the three members of this small, fractured family.

  • Meanwhile, Al-Liby's family lived a peripatetic existence that included spells in Sudan and Qatar.

  • Still, Brandolini is influenced by her background and her peripatetic youth.

  • Jace Lacob talked to the peripatetic actress about her many TV roles.

  • Kim Richards is the most peripatetic of the bunch, and has moved twice since shooting The Real Housewives.

  • His parents were divorced, he had a peripatetic childhood, and a brother and sister both died in car accidents.

  • In our time there flourished at that place remarkable persons of the Peripatetic sect of philosophers, Athenæus and Xenarchus.

  • He used to walk about when teaching and from this circumstance his sect was called (p. 056) Peripatetic.

  • There was in fact an "eternal fitness" in horse and man that was not exactly a "standing joke," but a peripatetic one.

  • There were the Italian peripatetic vendors of weather-glasses, who had their headquarters at Norwich.

  • He passed for a peripatetic storehouse of anecdotes, specially crammed with old and worn-out officers stories.