- 1旅行癖、渴望四處遊歷的心情；「想出走、想看看世界」的那股衝動。注意它指的是那份「想去」的心情，不是旅行本身。
Wanderlust is the strong pull you feel to travel — to leave where you are and go somewhere new. It is a feeling, not an action, and it is a feeling in the body and the chest more than a decision in the head. You can have wanderlust while sitting at your desk. That is the point of the word: it names the , not the trip.
English borrowed it whole from German, and it still sounds slightly special, so people use it when they want to describe travelling as a hunger rather than a hobby. It appears constantly in travel writing, in advertisements, and on social media, sometimes so much that it can sound a little empty — a photo of a beach with 'wanderlust' under it. Used well, though, it is a real and useful word, because English has no plainer way to say this exact feeling.
It is normally uncountable: you feel wanderlust, you have wanderlust, wanderlust strikes. People also say 'wanderlust for' a particular place, and describe someone as 'full of wanderlust' or say their wanderlust 'kicked in'. It is not a criticism — unlike 'restless', wanderlust sounds like an attractive quality.
組成Borrowed straight from German Wanderlust: wandern (to hike, to wander) + Lust (desire, pleasure). So literally 'the desire to wander'. English kept the whole German word rather than translating it.
原始詞典資料5 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。
wanderlustnoun/ˈwɒndəlʌst/
- 1
A strong impulse or longing to travel.
- Very often we made detours from the main caravan, rejoining it at a given spot, and this spirit of "wanderlust" brought us into a nice quandary one fine day.
- For the long trail stretched before us, for we heard the call, / Left the hearthstone and the homeland, felt the rover's thrall; / Wandered to the far horizon, sought the joy of life— / Now the wanderlust is waning, heimweh now is rife.
- 2
An impulse to be unfaithful or seek out other romantic or sexual partners; a straying heart.
- Males like lots of rapid anonymous sex. It's a biological drive. When you get a male-female couple together the male often gives up his wanderlust in exchange for the security of having a home.
- I was the slapper ... was in a short piece where I was a jealous girlfriend who slapped my date for his wanderlust.
wanderlustverb/ˈwɒndəlʌst/
- 1
To feel a strong impulse or longing to travel.
- Yes, he probably saw a picture of the South Sea islands last night, and now he is wanderlusting.
- 2
To roam or travel widely.
- "Be assured that we will never weary listening to tales related by one who has wanderlusted so many years," flattered Mrs. Cunningham, [...]
- It was the joy of our lives to be once more "hitting the trail," lustily as ever, Sunday last, under the brave lead of one who started the community hike here, and who, after three months wanderlusting in other lands must rejoice to find that a few brave scouts have kept up the good work here and made of us "some hikers."
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。