roving的意思|roving的解释-里氏词典

roving ['rəuviŋ]

a. 徘徊的, 流动的

n. 流浪, 漫游, 粗纱

His eyes roved around the room.
他的眼睛扫视着房间的每个角落。
His eyes roved.
他的眼睛转来转去。

roving

[ noun ]

travelling about without any clear destination

<noun.act>

she followed him in his wanderings and looked after him

[ adj ]

migratory

<adj.all>

a restless mobile society

the nomadic habits of the Bedouins

believed the profession of a peregrine typist would have a happy future

wandering tribes

Rove \Rove\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Roved}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Roving}.] [Cf. D. rooven to rob; akin to E. reave. See
{Reave}, {Rob}.]
1. To practice robbery on the seas; to wander about on the
seas in piracy. [Obs.] --Hakluyt.

2. Hence, to wander; to ramble; to rauge; to go, move, or
pass without certain direction in any manner, by sailing,
walking, riding, flying, or otherwise.

For who has power to walk has power to rove.
--Arbuthnot.

3. (Archery) To shoot at rovers; hence, to shoot at an angle
of elevation, not at point-blank (rovers usually being
beyond the point-blank range).

Fair Venus' son, that with thy cruel dart
At that good knight so cunningly didst rove.
--Spenser.

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

Roving \Rov"ing\, n.
The act of one who roves or wanders.

Roving \Rov"ing\, n.
1. The operatin of forming the rove, or slightly twisted
sliver or roll of wool or cotton, by means of a machine
for the purpose, called a roving frame, or roving machine.

2. A roll or sliver of wool or cotton drawn out and slightly
twisted; a rove. See 2d {Rove}, 2.

{Roving frame}, {Roving machine}, a machine for drawing and
twisting roves and twisting roves and winding them on
bobbin for the spinning machine.

The heart of London became a battleground Saturday, and fashionable shopping and theater districts packed with locals and tourists suddenly found themselves at the mercy of roving gangs.
The man who brought American pizza to the Soviets via a roving concession truck in Moscow now says he is working to establish the Soviet Union's first full-fledged pizza parlor.
The Vatican will be represented by Archbishop Francesco Colasuonno, an Italian prelate who has been a roving Vatican envoy to Eastern Europe.
Nuttall, a gentle but street-wise guy from Detroit, is the roving troubleshooter for Save the Children of Westport, Conn. He's found plenty of trouble on the desolate, desperate Iraqi border.
Soldierswith automatic rifles are posted at only a few major intersections but roving patrols stop people late at night to check identification.
"I will be like a roving goodwill ambassador for the next three years," White said by telephone from Calgary, Canada, where he is appearing in the play "Your Place Or Mine" at the Stage West dinner theater.
The last thing local officials want is for roving bands of Red Guards to unseat and publicly humiliate them.
The woman, now 29, was out for her nightly jog in the park when she was attacked shortly before 10 p.m. Several other people were attacked earlier in the park by the roving gang.
But, like a roving insectologist, he collects samples of the computer viruses to bring back and try to create vaccines against.
Born in Toledo, he moved to Los Angeles in his early 20s. From there, he says, he began roving in South America to capture jaguars, parrots and other animals for sale to collectors.
Students of Thomas Jefferson College got credit for some unusual activities _ carving Indian flutes, painting portraits of comic-book characters and observing the antics of roving bands of mongrel dogs.
Party representatives obtained the official counts for most voting stations and roving squads of poll watchers were sent to trouble spots by radio.
A roving band of women that uses sad stories to gain access to homes may be responsible for at least 180 robberies in which elderly Montreal residents lost cash, jewelry and other property, police say.
Others are building in-house day-care centers, hiring roving nannies or subsidizing the cost of care with cash payments.
Meanwhile, some 15 KWU radiologists were roving southern Germany and measuring fallout.
Some have gone further, allowing young parents to work at home or take years off with full benefits and job guarantees. Others are building in-house day-care centers, hiring roving nannies or subsidizing the cost of care with cash.
Arnaldo Musich, a former Argentine ambassador to the U.S. who acts as roving emissary for the Roccas, says the government is very hostile to business.
"Gettin' paid" or "payday" is a street term used by roving gangs who rob people.
Mexico City has perhaps 55,000 mom-and-pop tortilla shops, many without names, and other people buy their tortillas from roving street vendors.
By Tuesday night, the roving bands of youths that prompted many stores to close had scattered, and Interior Minister Juan Carlos Pugliese said he would not deploy federal troops.
He was film critic for The Manchester Guardian from 1963 to 1969 and then was a roving arts correspondent for the paper until his death.

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