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词汇 itinerant
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Definition of itinerant in English:

itinerant

adjective ʌɪˈtɪn(ə)r(ə)ntɪˈtɪn(ə)r(ə)nt
  • Travelling from place to place.

    流动的,巡回的

    itinerant traders

    行商。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • A restless, itinerant soul, he didn't stay in Symington long, setting up shop in a small family-run hotel in Ayr.
    • Taking a page from itinerant revivalists, he traveled the country on lecture tours, organizing schools and voluntary associations.
    • Many doctors were itinerant wanderers - Hippocrates among them.
    • Recently, itinerant workers - some illegal immigrants - have moved into the trade, at the risk of being exploited by gangmasters.
    • In the 1890s Montrealers bought milk, ice, bread, buns, fries and popcorn from itinerant street vendors.
    • The most obvious category of jobs of this kind is that of itinerant jobs, such as a commercial traveller.
    • The partnership built up a country clientele through itinerant trading with a hawker's licence.
    • As Ward writes, itinerant labourers were prone to ‘vary long periods of hard work by short bouts of tremendous drunkenness’.
    • Both men had unorthodox, itinerant upbringings.
    • We have had our share of itinerant carpetbaggers who had dubious magistrate credentials.
    • The alert follows a flood of complaints about itinerant traders who charge extortionate prices for bitumen coverings for drives.
    • Remember how, in response to the depredations of bandits, the villagers hired as protectors seven itinerant warriors.
    • Community workers sought smoking gun evidence of police harassment of itinerant youth and they say it's in the form of a big ugly pile of tickets.
    • These changes, which are more visible now, have been noted by many itinerant researchers.
    • He's also got a deep-blues vocal delivery, and comes across as a real genuine, home-schooled itinerant character.
    • Soon the word spread, and itinerant travelers began to squat there.
    • Serving mostly itinerant and homeless women, many of whom have mental difficulties, Chez Doris is accepting donations.
    • Private accounts are not going to turn the nation's graybeards into itinerant millionaires anytime soon.
    • This is not to say we didn't get our share of itinerant whackos.
    • Their earliest pictures showed life among itinerant farm workers.
    Synonyms
    travelling, peripatetic, wandering, wayfaring, roving, roaming, rambling, touring, nomadic, gypsy, migrant, migratory, ambulatory
    vagrant, vagabond, homeless, of no fixed address/abode, displaced
    footloose, rootless, drifting, floating, unsettled, restless
    globetrotting, jet-setting
    archaic errant
noun ʌɪˈtɪn(ə)r(ə)ntɪˈtɪn(ə)r(ə)nt
  • A person who travels from place to place.

    流动的,巡回的

    Example sentencesExamples
    • When the war ended these same itinerants took to the roads and even to flat-bottomed riverboats, which were both shop and home.
    • The men were a mixed crew, many of them itinerants, and Bill Clarke had no choice but to rule them with an iron hand.
    • Mr Hunt, meanwhile, says residents have been worried both by the quad bike riding and the noise caused by the itinerants since their arrival.
    • My parents were itinerants, travelling from farm to station to farm to station… you get the idea.
    • Labor is threatening to jail habitual drunks who refuse alcohol treatment, most of them Aboriginal itinerants.
    • The movements of itinerants are entirely unpredictable as well as unrestrained.
    • We would need to create the impression that we were itinerants of this sort.
    • A party of Irish itinerants travelling in around 24 vehicles arrived at the Back Lane side of the factory on Sunday evening.
    • They have been replaced by itinerants, travelling in big American pick-ups towing huge, gaudy modern caravans.
    • Prior to Fox's visit, nearly thirty itinerants had travelled to Barbados, most of whom stayed several weeks.
    • But here's what some time-zone itinerants have picked up in their travels.
    • Local Indigenous leaders appear to abhor the behaviour of itinerants and town youth, but have lost the authority and perhaps the will to deal with it.
    • Motherwell, who have been selling the family silver of late, fielded a team of itinerants and youngsters alongside the few remaining familiar faces.
    • Daily ritual emerges in the photographs of those itinerants who made the exodus to cities in search of a better life.
    • Three disused sites in the city centre, on Leeds Road and Halifax Road, were invaded by itinerants during March.
    • I don't want to give the impression that such visits by itinerants were frequent.
    • Pat loves the haggle that goes with buying and selling a car; he calls his breed the last true itinerants.
    • The media widely reported the incident and China's policy on the detention and removal of itinerants was reformed.
    • But typically they live as solitary itinerants wandering across the land, relying on daily charity from pious Hindus.
    • Later, we went for a wander along the mall - as usual, dozens of itinerants were in evidence.
    Synonyms
    traveller, wanderer, wayfarer, roamer, rover, nomad, gypsy, Bedouin
    migrant, transient, drifter, vagabond, vagrant, tramp
    refugee, displaced person, DP, homeless person
    New Zealand streety
    dated bird of passage

Derivatives

  • itineracy

  • noun
  • itinerancy

  • noun ʌɪˈtɪn(ə)r(ə)nsiɪˈtɪn(ə)r(ə)nsi
    • Among those who remain, one common form of survival is itinerancy.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Amid a continual itinerancy across Europe, there was a permanency to his writing habit.
      • Alexander pursued a lucrative itinerancy painting portraits in America, and when he had exhausted his possibilities, he returned to Scotland.
      • For them itinerancy was a habit born of necessity.
      • Irish migrants were well accustomed to patterns of temporary itinerancy and responded to situational exigencies with resilience and tactical virtuosity.

Origin

Late 16th century (used to describe a judge travelling on a circuit): from late Latin itinerant- 'travelling', from the verb itinerari, from Latin iter, itiner- 'journey, road'.

Definition of itinerant in US English:

itinerant

adjective
  • Traveling from place to place.

    流动的,巡回的

    itinerant traders

    行商。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • This is not to say we didn't get our share of itinerant whackos.
    • The partnership built up a country clientele through itinerant trading with a hawker's licence.
    • Many doctors were itinerant wanderers - Hippocrates among them.
    • In the 1890s Montrealers bought milk, ice, bread, buns, fries and popcorn from itinerant street vendors.
    • Remember how, in response to the depredations of bandits, the villagers hired as protectors seven itinerant warriors.
    • A restless, itinerant soul, he didn't stay in Symington long, setting up shop in a small family-run hotel in Ayr.
    • As Ward writes, itinerant labourers were prone to ‘vary long periods of hard work by short bouts of tremendous drunkenness’.
    • He's also got a deep-blues vocal delivery, and comes across as a real genuine, home-schooled itinerant character.
    • Soon the word spread, and itinerant travelers began to squat there.
    • The most obvious category of jobs of this kind is that of itinerant jobs, such as a commercial traveller.
    • Private accounts are not going to turn the nation's graybeards into itinerant millionaires anytime soon.
    • Recently, itinerant workers - some illegal immigrants - have moved into the trade, at the risk of being exploited by gangmasters.
    • The alert follows a flood of complaints about itinerant traders who charge extortionate prices for bitumen coverings for drives.
    • Taking a page from itinerant revivalists, he traveled the country on lecture tours, organizing schools and voluntary associations.
    • Community workers sought smoking gun evidence of police harassment of itinerant youth and they say it's in the form of a big ugly pile of tickets.
    • Both men had unorthodox, itinerant upbringings.
    • Serving mostly itinerant and homeless women, many of whom have mental difficulties, Chez Doris is accepting donations.
    • These changes, which are more visible now, have been noted by many itinerant researchers.
    • We have had our share of itinerant carpetbaggers who had dubious magistrate credentials.
    • Their earliest pictures showed life among itinerant farm workers.
    Synonyms
    travelling, peripatetic, wandering, wayfaring, roving, roaming, rambling, touring, nomadic, gypsy, migrant, migratory, ambulatory
noun
  • A person who travels from place to place.

    流动的,巡回的

    Example sentencesExamples
    • A party of Irish itinerants travelling in around 24 vehicles arrived at the Back Lane side of the factory on Sunday evening.
    • I don't want to give the impression that such visits by itinerants were frequent.
    • Three disused sites in the city centre, on Leeds Road and Halifax Road, were invaded by itinerants during March.
    • Prior to Fox's visit, nearly thirty itinerants had travelled to Barbados, most of whom stayed several weeks.
    • The men were a mixed crew, many of them itinerants, and Bill Clarke had no choice but to rule them with an iron hand.
    • Daily ritual emerges in the photographs of those itinerants who made the exodus to cities in search of a better life.
    • The media widely reported the incident and China's policy on the detention and removal of itinerants was reformed.
    • When the war ended these same itinerants took to the roads and even to flat-bottomed riverboats, which were both shop and home.
    • Later, we went for a wander along the mall - as usual, dozens of itinerants were in evidence.
    • We would need to create the impression that we were itinerants of this sort.
    • Motherwell, who have been selling the family silver of late, fielded a team of itinerants and youngsters alongside the few remaining familiar faces.
    • The movements of itinerants are entirely unpredictable as well as unrestrained.
    • Labor is threatening to jail habitual drunks who refuse alcohol treatment, most of them Aboriginal itinerants.
    • But typically they live as solitary itinerants wandering across the land, relying on daily charity from pious Hindus.
    • Mr Hunt, meanwhile, says residents have been worried both by the quad bike riding and the noise caused by the itinerants since their arrival.
    • Pat loves the haggle that goes with buying and selling a car; he calls his breed the last true itinerants.
    • Local Indigenous leaders appear to abhor the behaviour of itinerants and town youth, but have lost the authority and perhaps the will to deal with it.
    • But here's what some time-zone itinerants have picked up in their travels.
    • My parents were itinerants, travelling from farm to station to farm to station… you get the idea.
    • They have been replaced by itinerants, travelling in big American pick-ups towing huge, gaudy modern caravans.
    Synonyms
    traveller, wanderer, wayfarer, roamer, rover, nomad, gypsy, bedouin

Origin

Late 16th century (used to describe a judge traveling on a circuit): from late Latin itinerant- ‘traveling’, from the verb itinerari, from Latin iter, itiner- ‘journey, road’.

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