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peripatetic

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++per·i·pa·tet·ic /ˌperəpəˈtetɪk◂/ adjective formal  TRAVELtravelling from place to place, especially in order to do your job 〔尤指为工作而〕流动的,巡回的 a peripatetic music teacher 在多所学校任教的音乐教师
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peripateticHis career in the decade that followed was peripatetic.Until well into the sixteenth century the royal court and its functionaries were peripatetic.This pattern of living was reproduced wherever the peripatetic court might settle.Where a teacher is peripatetic in a school building it is much more difficult to display materials and motivate pupil contributions.Can you take the peripatetic lifestyle that many entrepreneurs find so essential?a peripatetic lifestyleThe relationship between sedentary and peripatetic peoples had no doubt always required diplomacy but these days it could be explosive.peripatetic priests who ministered to several villagesSurely no topic would seem to be less down the alley of this intellectually peripatetic social scientist.
Origin peripatetic (1600-1700) French péripatétique, from Latin, from Greek, from peripatein to walk up and down
place, in especially travelling place to do Corpus your to order from


peripatetic
peripatetic /ˌperəpəˈtetɪk◂, ˌperɪpəˈtetɪk◂/ adjective formal
 Date: 1600-1700
 Language: French
 Origin: péripatétique, from Latin, from Greek, from peripatein __to walk up and down__
travelling from place to place, especially in order to do your job:
    a peripatetic music teacher


peri·pat·et·icBrE /ˌperipəˈtetɪk/ 🔊NAmE /ˌperipəˈtetɪk/ 🔊 adjective (formal) going from place to place, for example in order to work 巡回工作的;流动的a peripatetic music teacher一名流动的音乐教师