peregrinate
动词 v.
形容词 adj.
美 /ˈpɛ.ɹɪ.ɡɹəˌneɪt/
英文释义
动词 v.
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To travel from place to place, or from one country to another, especially on foot; hence, to sojourn in foreign countries.
— You know the inveterate peregrinating habits of the club, and can judge, from your own besetting propensity to change your residence monthly, how difficult it might prove to resist the temptation of traversing a soil that is still virgin, so far as the perambulating feet of the members of our fraternity are concerned.
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To travel through a specific place.
— 1876, Edward S. Wheeler, Scheyichbi and the Strand http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&vid=ISBN1417920904&id=LCyGcTb-Af8C&pg=PA69&lpg=PA69&dq=peregrinates&sig=JqFzQzvC5TOwqRCgiL9-NKEoQxI History records no popular tumult, except of tongues, about the matter, but Jesse Hand never fully regained the regard of some people, and jealousy and distrust, like a curse, followed his new-fangled equipage; and though he and his generation are long since dead, yet the writer hath knowledge of traditions that, still drawn by attenuated and discouraged equines, a very Wandering Jew of vehicles, Jesse Hand’s carriage still peregrinates, at a toilsome pace, the interminable, sandy, woodland roads of Jersey.
形容词 adj.
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Peregrine; having travelled; exotic, foreign.
— His humour is loftie, his diſcourſe peremptorie: his tongue fyled, his eye ambitious, his gate maieſticall and his general behauiour vaine, rediculous, & thraſonicall. He is too picked, too ſpruce, too affected, to od, as it were, too peregrinat as I may call it.
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词源 1
From Latin peregrinari (“to live or travel abroad”). See also peregrine and pilgrim.
词源 2
From Latin peregrinatus (“having travelled abroad”), past participle of peregrinari.
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