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漫步,徘徊;迷路,迷失方向;偏离正题,胡扯

资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Wander \Wan"der\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Wandered}; p. pr. & vb.
   n. {Wandering}.] [OE. wandren, wandrien, AS. wandrian; akin
   to G. wandern to wander; fr. AS. windan to turn. See {Wind}
   to turn.]
   1. To ramble here and there without any certain course or
      with no definite object in view; to range about; to
      stroll; to rove; as, to wander over the fields.

            They wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins.
                                                  --Heb. xi. 37.

            He wandereth abroad for bread.        --Job xv. 23.

   2. To go away; to depart; to stray off; to deviate; to go
      astray; as, a writer wanders from his subject.

            When God caused me to wander from my father's house.
                                                  --Gen. xx. 13.

            O, let me not wander from thy commandments. --Ps.
                                                  cxix. 10.

   3. To be delirious; not to be under the guidance of reason;
      to rave; as, the mind wanders.

   Syn: To roam; rove; range; stroll; gad; stray; straggly; err;
        swerve; deviate; depart.

Wander \Wan"der\, v. t.
   To travel over without a certain course; to traverse; to
   stroll through. [R.] ``[Elijah] wandered this barren waste.''
   --Milton.

资料来源 : WordNet®

wander
     v 1: move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in
          search of food or employment; "The gypsies roamed the
          woods"; "roving vagabonds"; "the wandering Jew"; "The
          cattle roam across the prairie"; "the laborers drift
          from one town to the next"; "They rolled from town to
          town" [syn: {roll}, {swan}, {stray}, {tramp}, {roam}, {cast},
           {ramble}, {rove}, {range}, {drift}, {vagabond}]
     2: be sexually unfaithful to one's partner in marriage; "She
        cheats on her husband"; "Might her husband be wandering?"
        [syn: {cheat on}, {cheat}, {cuckold}, {betray}]
     3: go via an indirect route or at no set pace; "After dinner,
        we wandered into town"
     4: to move or cause to move in a sinuous, spiral, or circular
        course; "the river winds through the hills"; "the path
        meanders through the vineyards"; "sometimes, the gout
        wanders through the entire body" [syn: {weave}, {wind}, {thread},
         {meander}]
     5: lose clarity or turn aside especially from the main subject
        of attention or course of argument in writing, thinking,
        or speaking; "She always digresses when telling a story";
        "her mind wanders"; "Don't digress when you give a
        lecture" [syn: {digress}, {stray}, {divagate}]
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