walkabout

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A period, often extended, during which an Aboriginal person left a station or settlement to travel on country, typically seasonally or for traditional cultural reasons; a journey by foot taken by an Aboriginal as a temporary withdrawal from white society. Australia
    — The police picked him up, reared him, and he had been a tracker ever since, except for periodical walk-abouts.
  2. A walking trip.
  3. A public stroll by some celebrity to meet a group of people informally. UK
    — While the world altered dramatically during the course of her reign, the monarchy did too, though rather more imperceptibly: the walkabouts that increasingly characterised royal appearances, the pop concerts at Buckingham Palace, the throwing open of the royal palaces to visitors – even the paying of income tax, and royal podcasts – would have been inconceivable as innovations at the time Elizabeth came to the throne.
  4. An absence, usually from a regular place with a possibility of a return.

词形变化

walkabouts plural

词汇关系

衍生词
go walkabout walkabout disease

词源

Deverbal from walk about, originally in Australian Pidgin English; the Australian aboriginal word wokabat is derived from this term.
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