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walk·a·bout
wawk baUt
复数:walkabouts
词根:walkaway
n.walkaway 轻易得到的胜利;徒步逃犯
noun
a short period of wandering bush life engaged in by an Australian aborigine as an occasional interruption of regular work—often used in the phrase go walkabout
the man who went walkabout was making a ritual journey—Bruce Chatwin
something (such as a journey) similar to a walkabout
a walking tourespecially, British: one in which a well-known person mingles with the public
went walkabout in the streets
"西化土著人定期进入丛林迁徙",出自1828年的澳大利亚英语,源自 walk(动词)和 about。
The first known use of walkabout was in 1897
1 "I don't know how much money actually reached where it should have gone, early on," Boyd says, recalling that Harrison believed that some of it "went walkabout".
2 In summer, rather than buy hay to feed them, they would take the goats on a “walkabout” through the property.
3 In the play, both Auden and Britten discuss the habit of art – the need to sit down and work every day, even when the muse has gone walkabout.
4 The reason “Night Boat to Tangier” works is that Maurice and Charlie are vivid company on the page, a couple of battered and slightly sinister vaudevillians on a late-career mental walkabout.
5 Tested with a bow and arrow, Oskari fails, but nevertheless embarks on a solo overnight walkabout, determined to nail impressive quarry and return a man.
6 On the long historical walkabout of some 60 collection galleries spread over three floors, there’s pretty much something for everyone.
7 The narrator begins to sleep most of the day and sometimes to go on walkabouts while blacked out.
8 It has been two years since the last of the Dukes' popular walkabout shows in Williamson Park, during which time the authorities seemed to have clamped down on public entertainment.
9 She slid down from her perch and joined the walkabout.
10 There are also general city walkabouts and treks around the city's fabulous food markets and best tapas joints, if you can handle only so much design.
11 Despite its workaday subject matter, this volume arrives as if it were grander than the average pop psychology walkabout.
12 The GREAT Hollywood WALKABOUT: Will Hollywood's future depend on the cars or the people?
游走好莱坞:好莱坞的未来究竟是依靠汽车还是人?
13 After waiting an hour, William did a walkabout and reached her place in the crowd.
在那里等了一个小时后,威廉果真现身,并且在人群中向她靠拢。
14 Maybe too much. doesn’t go on quite the narrative walkabout his Funny People did, but it needed a savage edit.
15 “Probably not. I like these hours. Feels like you could live inside your dreams, have a walkabout. You know?”
16 Plant orientation tour: a brief walkabout of factory site and associated facilities (labs, offices etc. ), the materials, materials flow, site security.
参观厂房、设备(实验室,办公室等)、原辅料、物料流程,工厂安全系统。
17 On our night walkabout underneath the Southern Cross, we saw a half-dozen big gray kangaroos feeding on brush.
当晚,我们头顶着南十字星徒步旅行,看到五、六只大灰袋鼠以树丛为食。
18 She waved from balconies and carriages in them, and shook hands in private receiving lines and at public walkabouts with fully sheathed fingers.
19 Another restaurant project accounted for the hiatus, and when it ultimately failed, Mr. London, 32, headed to Asia and Mexico on a culinary walkabout.
20 Just before the designer took his bows, model Coco Rocha finished her finale walkabout and strolled into the pond for an impromptu dip.