| 单词 | saunter |
| 释义 | saunter (once / 1004 pages) vn To saunter is to stroll at a leisurely pace. The next time someone accuses you of dragging your feet and asks you to speed it up, calmly tell them that you’re perfecting your saunter. A verb of unconfirmed origin, saunter means to “walk with a leisurely gait.” As a noun, saunter describes that leisurely gait. Henry David Thoreau once said “it is a great art to saunter.” So while crossing a busy street may not be the best time to test out your sauntering abilities, feel free to practice when you're not in a hurry. WORD FAMILYsaunter: sauntered, saunterer, sauntering, saunters+/saunterer: saunterers USAGE EXAMPLESZach Banner sauntered into the dining room at Lawry’s The Prime Rib on Thursday evening for a Rose Bowl tradition. Los Angeles Times(Dec 29, 2016) Critics deride the policy as a contrived excuse to overpay for over-the-hill stars who saunter through their final years before retirement. New York Times(Dec 09, 2016) Is he still reprogrammed, and is there a walking gold mine of code sauntering around the real world? Los Angeles Times(Dec 05, 2016) 1v walk leisurely and with no apparent aim Syn|Hyper stroll walk use one's feet to advance; advance by steps 2n a careless leisurely gait he walked with a kind of saunter as if he hadn't a care in the world Hyper gait a person's manner of walking 3n a leisurely walk (usually in some public place) Syn|Hypo|Hyper amble, perambulation, promenade, stroll meander, ramble an aimless amble on a winding course walkabouta public stroll by a celebrity to meet people informally walk the act of walking somewhere |
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