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wandering

/won-der-ing/US // ˈwɒn dər ɪŋ //

游荡的,游荡,流浪的,游荡的人

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : moving from place to place without a fixed plan; roaming; rambling: wandering tourists.
    • : having no permanent residence; nomadic: a wandering tribe of Indians.
    • : meandering; winding: a wandering river; a wandering path.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : an aimless roving about; leisurely traveling from place to place: a period of delightful wandering through Italy.
    • : Usually wanderings. aimless travels; meanderings: Her wanderings took her all over the world.disordered thoughts or utterances; incoherencies: mental wanderings; the wanderings of delirium.
    • : seemingly aimless or random movement or locomotion by a person with a mental disorder or cognitive impairment: Wandering by Alzheimer’s patients is a problem in nursing homes.See also elopement.

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Examples

  • This is counter-intuitive because spontaneous fluctuations and mind-wandering can also lead to depressive rumination and anxiety.

  • When psychologists do that, they find that mind-wandering is staggeringly frequent.

  • Similar to playing and dreaming is the wandering of our minds.

  • Mind-wandering is often considered a harmless quirk, as in the cliché of the scatter-brained professor.

  • Mr. Bachner found it by wandering through the market and identified a craftsmen here who works in a tiny booth.

  • And, in a gratuitous show of homicidal prowess, Moses kills two assassins he meets while wandering in the desert of Sinai.

  • After wandering at haphazard some little way I met a peasant in a sleigh.

  • He showed signs of a restless, wandering soul, someone searching for meaning around him.

  • I spotted American students wandering around London last week dressed in Stars and Stripes shorts and bikini tops.

  • She observed his pale looks, and the distracted wandering of his eyes; but she would not notice either.

  • This mode of learning promotes attention and prevents mind-wandering.

  • He paled a little, and sucked his lip, his eyes wandering to the girl, who stood in stolid inapprehension of what was being said.

  • John and Judas became the good and evil Wandering Jews of mediæval folklore.

  • He was relieved to learn that his grandson Moses Mole was not wandering about the garden, after all.