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词汇 rove
释义 rove
verb[ I+ adv/prep, T ]
uk /rəʊv/ us /roʊv/
to move or travel around an area, especially a large one: 漫游,流浪;(眼睛)环顾,扫视
Some vets spend their time roving around in a truck tending to horses and cattle.
And now a live report from our roving reporter, Martin Jackson.下面是我们的流动记者马丁‧杰克逊发回的现场报道。
He spent most of his life roving the world in search of his fortune.他大半生的时间都在世界各处游荡,寻找发财的机会。
Synonyms
roam(MOVE AROUND)
wander(MOVE AROUND)
If someone's hands or eyes rove, they touch or look in many different places, especially in a sexual way or when they should not do this:
She let her hands rove over his smooth hard muscles.
By his own admission he had a roving eye and was easily infatuated.
He was mostly quiet along the way, eyes roving the shore.
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General words for movement

rove | American Dictionary


rove
verb[ I/T ]
us/roʊv/
to move, travel, or look around an area, without having a particular place you intend to go to:
[ I ]He roved around town, looking for work.

Examples of rove


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Free outdoor events for the large crowds included music concerts, roving performances, and dance, physical theatre, and new circus shows.
This was, however, interspersed with alternative convictions, that they roved abroad in physical form.
Other roving stairs include external stairs front and back, almost impossible to locate on plan due to discrepancies between set design and location.
The teleradiography worked well, the roving cameras did not.
The majority of the catch comprised carabid beetles and rove beetles which were identified to species.
In reference to roving bandits, see discussion above. 20.
In practice, many movements are partly roving and partly stationary.
The other sites used roving cameras to provide an image of the injury.
The sardar was sometimes discovered among these roving bands to be the village headman, and in some cases, headship was assigned by the negotiators.
One should note here the problems of discipline that plague both stationary and roving rebel movements.
The addition of manure imp roves soil waterholding capacity, cation exchange capacity, and soil structure.
However, the roving bandit might find it more beneficial to settle and become stationary.
In this region stray and roving dogs are numerous and prevention or treatment of the parasitic infections in these dogs is difficult.
Ants, mites and rove beetles are not considered as members of the guild described here and are not discussed further in this paper.
A brawl occurred when roving bands of the song's supporters and detractors clashed in the streets.
These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.
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