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A gadabout is someone who is always going out — to parties, to other towns, on little trips — because they like a good time. It is a slightly old-fashioned word, and often a teasing one. A newspaper might smile at “a society gadabout”. It is not a word for a with a serious job to do, and it is not a word for someone who is lost. Though actually, it can sound fond or a little sharp, depending on who says it and how they look at you. You would not put it on a job form.
愛到處玩的人(稍舊、帶點調侃,不是中性的「旅人」)
組成From the verb phrase gad about. To gad is to wander from place to place; about means “around”. The noun is that phrase turned into a person-word.
同家族的字
- gadold verb: to go about from place to place, for pleasure
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
gadaboutnoun/ˈɡædəbaʊt/
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A person who restlessly moves from place to place, seeking amusement or the companionship of others.
- I was among the last to board the ferry. ... Chilean tourists, Uruguayan doctors, old Argentine gadabouts of high-society heritage, ladies wearing strident perfumes, families, all of them in those same light blue sneakers, like Smurfs.
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。