单词	rambling
释义	rambling1 adjectiverambling2 noun ramblingram‧bling1 /ˈræmblɪŋ/ adjective [usually before noun] Examples EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES a rambling New England farmhouse Perot's rambling speech swung from economics to education. EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS From the front door of the rambling palazzo which housed the pensione she turned left and walked along the Riviera. He set off on a long rambling account of something that had happened in the bar that afternoon. It was a rambling old place, crooked and picturesque. Many farmers and tenant farmers live in big old rambling houses. Seeing all the designs together in one large rambling shop confirms how fresh and charming they are. There is also rambling thought in which the mind is not pressed to solve anything and merely rambles aimlessly. Tomatoes leaned on stakes, runner beans twined round a wigwam of canes and rambling roses rambled over their appointed places. word sets WORD SETS► Architecture arcade, nounarch, nounarchitect, nounarchitecture, nounatrium, nounbailey, nounbastion, nouncampanile, nouncapital, nouncaryatid, nouncloistered, adjectivecolonial, adjectiveconservationist, nounCorinthian, adjectivecornice, noundolmen, noundome, noundomed, adjectiveDoric, adjectivefloor plan, nounflying buttress, nounfolly, nounGeorgian, adjectiveGothic, adjectiveground plan, nounIonic, adjectivemodernism, nounmonolith, nounmonument, nounmonumental, adjectiveNorman, adjectiveobelisk, nounopen-plan, adjectivepedestal, nounpediment, nounperistyle, nounpitched, adjectiveplinth, nounplot, nounportico, nounquadrangle, nounrambling, adjectiverampart, nounrococo, adjectiveRomanesque, adjectivescreen, nounspan, nounsplit-level, adjectivesquare, nounstonework, nounterrace, nountracery, nountransept, nountruss, nounvaulted, adjectivevaulting, nounvestibule, noun 1a rambling building has an irregular shape and covers a large area:  a rambling old farmhouse2rambling speech or writing is very long and does not seem to have any clear organization or purpose:  a long rambling letter rambling1 adjectiverambling2 noun ramblingrambling2 noun [uncountable] British English Examples EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS But how to word it so that it didn't sound like the rambling of a wild man? I hadn't done this amount of countryside rambling since I was drummed out of the Boy Scouts. It's an excellent time for walking and rambling. Jay was given to grandiloquent rambling, and had to check herself. Scores of rambling and cycling clubs headed remorselessly for the Dales each weekend, come rain or shine. The terrain's just as perfect for rambling or mountain biking as for exploring à cheval. the activity of going for walks in the countryside for pleasure
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