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词汇 wandered
释义 wandered
past simple and past participle ofwander
wander
verb
uk /ˈwɒn.dər/ us /ˈwɑːn.dɚ/

wanderverb (MOVE AROUND)


B2[ I or T, I or T ]
to walk around slowly in a relaxed way or without any clear purpose or direction: 漫步;闲逛;游荡
We spent the morning wandering around the old part of the city.我们整个上午都在老城区闲逛。
She was found several hours later, wandering the streets, lost.几个小时后她被找到了,正在街上徘徊,迷路了。
He was here a minute ago but he's wandered off somewhere.他刚才还在这儿,现在已经闲逛到别的什么地方去了。
Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples

to walk
walkThe baby has just learned to walk.
strideShe strode purposefully up to the desk and demanded to speak to the manager.
marchHe marched right in to the office and demanded to see the governor.
strollWe strolled along the beach.
wanderShe wandered from room to room, not sure of what she was looking for.
ambleShe ambled down the street, looking in shop windows.
Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples

to move slowly
crawlThere'd been a bad accident on the motorway and traffic was crawling.
trundleLorries trundle through the narrow lanes.
creepHe crept downstairs, hardly making any noise.
trudgeThey trudged wearily through the snow.
strollWe spent the afternoon strolling around Budapest.
ambleHe ambled over to the window.
[ I, I or T ]
If someone's hands or eyes wander, they touch or look in many different places, especially in a sexual way or when they should not do this:
If his hands start to wander, tell him firmly, "No, I'm not ready for this."
He was cruelly described as a creepy old man with wandering hands.
Her gaze wandered around the flat.
[ I, I or T ]
to have sexual relationships or experiences outside of your marriage or usual relationship:
She wrote an article about infidelity called "Wives who wander".
She had enough problems dealing with a wandering husband.
Don't worry if you lose hold of the reins - the horse won't wander off.如果缰绳脱手也不用担心——这匹马是不会乱跑的。
He wandered around, clearing up in a desultory way.
We wandered along the shore, stepping over the flotsam that had washed up in the night.我们沿着海岸漫步,跨过夜晚冲上岸边的零碎杂物。
We wandered through the beautifully proportioned rooms of the Winter Palace.我们浏览了冬宫里错落有致、美仑美奂的众多宫室。
She was wandering around in a daze this morning.今天早上她神情恍惚地四处游荡。
His eyes wandered over the posters adorning the walls.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Moving gently on foot
amble
blow
circulate
dumbwalking
flâneur
gently
mincing
mincingly
mooch
mosey
pad
paseo
plod
potter
promenade
stroll
stroller
tippy
tiptoe
wander

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Slow and moving slowly
General words for movement
Relationships: infidelity

wanderverb (SUBJECT)


[ I ]
to start talking about a different subject from the one you were originally discussing: 离题
We've wandered off/from the point somewhat.我们有点离题了。
C2[ I ]
If your mind or your thoughts wander, you stop thinking about the subject that you should be giving your attention to and start thinking about other matters: 走神;开小差
Halfway through the meeting my mind started to wander.会开到一半时我就开始走神了。
[ I ]
If you say that an old person's mind is beginning to wander, you mean that they are starting to get very confused because of their age: (因年老而)神志恍惚,精神错乱
Her mind is beginning to wander and she doesn't always know who I am.她的神志开始恍惚,有时认不出我是谁。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Digressing and being indirect or evasive
bury the ledeidiom
candy coat
candy coating
candy-coated
circumlocution
circumlocutory
elliptical
f-bomb
get on to/onto something
glancingly
gloss over something
go off on a tangentidiom
implicit
parry
prevaricate
stray
tangent
tiptoe around something/someone
unexpressed
unvoiced

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Not paying attention

Related word


wanderer

Examples of wandered


wandered

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.


During the ensuing commotion a student wandered out of the building with a bundle hidden in his clothes and deposited it in a nearby barn.
But that discussion demands a longer study than this essay, which has already wandered too far afield.
Emily has just wandered into a seaside pub.
The path down which they have wandered ends at a stile, with a road beyond.
Although occasionally, a few larvae wandered out of this zone but eventually returned.
Only through trying out these experiments does one become aware of how far one has wandered from oneself.
Then his thoughts wandered back to other days, though he still held the open note in his hand.
As a consequence, he wandered around the nursing home from his room on the basement floor up to the ground floor lounge.
He went around in circles, wandered about, looked in every corner.
Here they wandered ' aimlessly ', as they did when placed on agarose that contained no salt, changing directions frequently while making loop-like tracks.
Co-resident supporters were more likely to report that the subject wandered or created a disturbance at night, but were less likely to report problems with repetitive speech.
The school also eradicated their memory of the hills in which they wandered about earlier and thereby ensured that they did not cherish the wild notions.
When first put on to a rabbit, the larvae do not seem to feel at home and in every instance many of them have wandered away from this host.
The accommodation had become a dowdy barracks stuck out along a back lane that wandered off from the edge of suburbia to the fields and agriculture.
Into their depressions sands and gravels had been deposited by glacial action to create swampy areas through which wandered brooks and creeks.
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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