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移动的;步行的
资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Ambulatory \Am"bu*la*to*ry\, n.; pl. {Ambulatories}. [Cf. LL.
ambulatorium.] (Arch.)
A place to walk in, whether in the open air, as the gallery
of a cloister, or within a building.
Ambulatory \Am"bu*la*to*ry\, a. [L. ambulatorius.]
1. Of or pertaining to walking; having the faculty of
walking; formed or fitted for walking; as, an ambulatory
animal.
2. Accustomed to move from place to place; not stationary;
movable; as, an ambulatory court, which exercises its
jurisdiction in different places.
The priesthood . . . before was very ambulatory, and
dispersed into all families. --Jer. Taylor.
3. Pertaining to a walk. [R.]
The princess of whom his majesty had an ambulatory
view in his travels. --Sir H.
Wotton.
4. (Law) Not yet fixed legally, or settled past alteration;
alterable; as, the dispositions of a will are ambulatory
until the death of the testator.
资料来源 : WordNet®
ambulatory
adj : able to walk about; "the patient is ambulatory" [syn: {ambulant}]