1. 1流浪者、漂泊的人;四處遊走不定居的人。帶點浪漫、自由的味道,不等於「流浪漢」(那是 homeless person / 街友),也不是「迷路的人」。

    A wanderer is a person who moves from place to place instead of living in one home. The word does not tell you the person is poor or lost — that is the difference between a wanderer and a beggar or a homeless person. A wanderer keeps moving, often by choice, and often without a plan about where to go next.

    Because of that, the word carries a romantic, story-like feeling. In songs, poems, films and fairy tales, the wanderer is a free figure who has seen many places and belongs to none. Older stories are full of them: the wanderer who arrives in a village, tells strange news, and is gone by morning. This is where you will meet the word most often.

    In ordinary speech, people also use it more lightly and . If a friend has lived in six countries in ten years, you might say 'She's a bit of a wanderer.' That is not a criticism; it means she does not settle.

    There is a second, everyday use: someone whose mind or feet drift away from where they should be. A teacher may say a child is a wanderer, meaning he gets up and walks around the classroom. This one is plain and modern, no romance in it.

組成wander (to move around with no fixed direction or goal) + -er (a person who does this). So: a person who wanders.

同家族的字

  • wanderthe verb it is built from — to move about with no fixed route
  • wanderlustalso built on wander: the strong urge to travel
  • teachersame -er ending, 'the person who does it' — teach + -er

原始詞典資料4 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,摘錄並精簡格式,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。

Wanderernoun

  • 1

    ball-gamesgameshobbiessomeone connected with any number of soccer clubs known as the Wanderers.

wanderernoun/ˈwɑndəɹɚ/

  • 1

    One who wanders, who travels aimlessly.

    • The desert storm was riding in its strength; the travellers lay beneath the mastery of the fell simoom.[…]Roaring, leaping, pouncing, the tempest raged about the wanderers, drowning and blotting out their forms with sandy spume.
    • The bibliotaph buries books; not literally, but sometimes with as much effect as if he had put his books underground. There are several varieties of him. The dog-in-the-manger bibliotaph is the worst; he uses his books but little himself, and allows others to use them not at all. On the other hand, a man may be a bibliotaph simply from inability to get at his books. He may be homeless, a bachelor, a denizen of boarding-houses, a wanderer upon the face of the earth.
  • 2

    Any of various far-migrating nymphalid butterflies of the genus Danaus.

  • 3

    The wandering albatross, Diomedea exulans.

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