wandering
游荡的,游荡,流浪的,游荡的人
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Definitions
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- : moving from place to place without a fixed plan; roaming; rambling: wandering tourists.
- : having no permanent residence; nomadic: a wandering tribe of Indians.
- : meandering; winding: a wandering river; a wandering path.
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- : an aimless roving about; leisurely traveling from place to place: a period of delightful wandering through Italy.
- : Usually wanderings. aimless travels; meanderings: Her wanderings took her all over the world.disordered thoughts or utterances; incoherencies: mental wanderings; the wanderings of delirium.
- : seemingly aimless or random movement or locomotion by a person with a mental disorder or cognitive impairment: Wandering by Alzheimer’s patients is a problem in nursing homes.See also elopement.
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Examples
This is counter-intuitive because spontaneous fluctuations and mind-wandering can also lead to depressive rumination and anxiety.
When psychologists do that, they find that mind-wandering is staggeringly frequent.
Similar to playing and dreaming is the wandering of our minds.
Mind-wandering is often considered a harmless quirk, as in the cliché of the scatter-brained professor.
Mr. Bachner found it by wandering through the market and identified a craftsmen here who works in a tiny booth.
And, in a gratuitous show of homicidal prowess, Moses kills two assassins he meets while wandering in the desert of Sinai.
After wandering at haphazard some little way I met a peasant in a sleigh.
He showed signs of a restless, wandering soul, someone searching for meaning around him.
I spotted American students wandering around London last week dressed in Stars and Stripes shorts and bikini tops.
She observed his pale looks, and the distracted wandering of his eyes; but she would not notice either.
This mode of learning promotes attention and prevents mind-wandering.
He paled a little, and sucked his lip, his eyes to the girl, who stood in stolid inapprehension of what was being said.