roam的意思|roam的解释-里氏词典

roam [rәum]

vt. 漫游, 闲逛, 徜徉

vi. 漫游, 闲逛, 徜徉

n. 漫步, 漫游

roam

[ verb ]
move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment
<verb.motion> cast drift ramble range roll rove stray swan tramp vagabond wander
The gypsies roamed the woodsroving vagabonds
the wandering Jew
The cattle roam across the prairie
the laborers drift from one town to the next
They rolled from town to town

Roam \Roam\ (r[=o]m), v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Roamed} (r[=o]md); p.
pr. & vb. n. {Roaming}.] [OE. romen, ramen; cf. AS.
[=a]r[=ae]man to raise, rise, D. ramen to hit, plan, aim, OS.
r[=o]m[=o]n to strive after, OHG. r[=a]men. But the word was
probably influenced by Rome; cf. OF. romier a pilgrim,
originally, a pilgrim going to Rome, It. romeo, Sp. romero.
Cf. {Ramble}.]
To go from place to place without any certain purpose or
direction; to rove; to wander.

He roameth to the carpenter's house. --Chaucer.

Daphne roaming through a thorny wood. --Shak.

Syn: To wander; rove; range; stroll; ramble.

Roam \Roam\, v. t.
To range or wander over.

And now wild beasts came forth the woods to roam.
--Milton.

Roam \Roam\, n.
The act of roaming; a wandering; a ramble; as, he began his
roam o'er hill and dale. --Milton.

Nowadays, he said, U.S. intelligence agents and KGB officers from the Soviet Embassy no longer appear regularly to roam Kamkin's aisles, spying on each other in the hope of learning what the other side is reading.
The move follows criticism of the Naval Investigative Service's initial investigation of reports that Marine security guards at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow let Soviet agents roam the building after hours.
Sgt. Stites, the Oklahoman, leads one of these seven-man units, which roam as far as 30 miles behind enemy lines for as long as a week.
The guerrillas, who call themselves nationalists opposing a Marxist-based government, roam Mozambique's 10 provinces and mount frequent raids into Zimbabwe with virtual impunity.
Ale and Carol Janssen have a home where the buffalo roam.
"As long as the bears still roam Wall Street, the City of New York isn't out of the woods."
Western officials say most pirates are Thais who roam the South China Sea, the Gulf of Thailand and waters near Indonesia.
The problem with bison, or American buffalo, and elk in the huge Yellowstone National Park is that infected animals can roam onto cattle rangelands, mingle with herds and thus spread the disease.
An estimated half-million abandoned dogs roam and foul the streets of Britain.
That would give them a license to roam Asia on the ADB payroll, carrying the badge of a multilateral organization that hands out loans averaging $47 million apiece.
"They exercise their freedom to roam," he says. "Some exercise it too much." The lynx are roaming to "pick the areas where they're interested in living and setting up shop," says Kent Gustafson, a research assistant for the project.
"We feel under no pressure to roam around the world and start throwing it around," the gray-haired chief executive says.
She estimates that 1,500 people, mostly Hot Springs residents, roam the galleries when they open for the monthly walks.
And in a first for the Met, television cameras will be allowed to roam backstage during the performance, glimpsing scene changes and stars in their dressing rooms.
Ranchers have complained vigorously that the buffalo that roam from the park damage property and threaten to infect cows with brucellosis, a bacterial disease that causes cows to abort their calves.
The Wild Pair puts its Ciao booties, Zodiac boots and other teen-oriented shoes toward the front of its store, because kids, who often roam the mall for hours, do more window-shopping than adults.
You can roam the outer courts, view snippets of dozens of matches and put faces on the names you read in the small-print results columns, secure in the knowledge that there will be plenty of time later to catch the Steffis and Stefans.
After all, it wasn't this dog, behind the door, that snapped at his heels, but other dogs who were allowed to roam free.
Customers roam freely amid the cars from showroom to showroom.
Up at dawn, the two men put on shorts and sandals to roam the echoing halls.
The title derives from a famous N'Awlins bogeyman of the past, a murderer who galvanized the city by promising to spare those from whose houses jazz music blared on the nights he chose to roam.
The men who roam the sidelines wearing headphones and worried expressions (they're called coaches) now have a larger concern than how their pizza franchises are doing or what they'll wear on their Sunday-morning TV shows.
More than 1,900 breeding animals and several thousand of their offspring roam on 300 acres of partially submerged wetlands on Key Lois and Raccoon Key, another company-owned island several miles away.
A Rhode Island attorney general's report also said Gilbert, serving a 10-year prison term for murder at the time he was a protected witness, illegally had guns and improperly collected welfare and often was allowed to roam freely.
Within 10 years, farmers will have to release chickens from cages and allow them to roam outside.
The compensations of ample air time and front-page space do not necessarily offset the long hours, cramped working conditions and the frustration of not being able to roam freely throughout government.
The viewer is allowed to let his own imagination roam - and this is unusual in television.
Two cats roam the offices, which resemble a tasteful country inn more than the headquarters of a company with annual revenues of $150 million.
This is highly sophisticated software which gives precise control over which parts of an IT network users can access. Two types of problem arise when individuals are free to roam around sprawling computer networks.
Armed policemen in uniform as well as submachine-gun-toting Colombian secret servicemen in plain clothes roam the halls of the building where Dr. Valencia worked.

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