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单词 peripatetic
释义
peripateticper‧i‧pa‧tet‧ic /ˌperəpəˈtetɪk◂/ adjective formal Word Origin
WORD ORIGINperipatetic
Origin:
1600-1700 French péripatétique, from Latin, from Greek, from peripatein ‘to walk up and down’
Examples
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
  • peripatetic priests who ministered to several villages
  • a peripatetic lifestyle
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
  • Can you take the peripatetic lifestyle that many entrepreneurs find so essential?
  • His career in the decade that followed was peripatetic.
  • Surely no topic would seem to be less down the alley of this intellectually peripatetic social scientist.
  • The relationship between sedentary and peripatetic peoples had no doubt always required diplomacy but these days it could be explosive.
  • This pattern of living was reproduced wherever the peripatetic court might settle.
  • Until well into the sixteenth century the royal court and its functionaries were peripatetic.
  • Where a teacher is peripatetic in a school building it is much more difficult to display materials and motivate pupil contributions.
travelling from place to place, especially in order to do your job:  a peripatetic music teacher
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