roam
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++LDOCE 5++roam /rəʊm $ roʊm/ ●○○ verb 1 [intransitive, transitive]TRAVEL to walk or travel, usually for a long time, with no clear purpose or direction 闲逛，漫步；漫步于 → wanderroam over/around/about etc The dogs are allowed to roam around. 允许狗四处活动。 Chickens and geese roam freely in the back yard. 鸡和鹅在后院随意溜达。 You shouldn’t let your children roam the streets. 你不应该让孩子在街上游荡。roam the countryside/desert/forests etc Wild sheep roam the hills. 野羊在山上漫步。► see thesaurus at travel2 [intransitive always + adverb/preposition, transitive]LOOK AT if your eyes roam over something, you look slowly at all parts of it 〔缓慢地〕打量 Her eyes roamed the room. 她将房间打量了一遍。roam over His eyes roamed over the bookshelves. 他的目光扫过一个个书架。n3 [intransitive] to use your mobile phone in a different country or area from usual by connecting to a different network Some pay-as-you-go phones do not allow you to roam.→ See Verb table
Examples from the Corpus
roam• They typically roam a territory of several acres, with life spans similar to humans.• Tourists love roaming about the old town.• Great herds of wild deer roam freely over the hills.• Larger numbers of roe deer live near there and Czechoslovakia still has bears and wolves roaming in the wild.• At one point, buffalo freely roamed North America.• He had roamed Queenstown during his lunch hour at the beginning of the week before he could find a roaster for sale.• Would you rather have them roaming the countryside on trail bikes or all-terrain vehicles?• I am the one scrambling eggs for dinner and sitting on porches with friends while the kids roam the neighborhood on bikes.• The kids roamed the neighborhood on their bikes.• Although visitors will roam the shop floor some things will be closely watched.• Residents of the Red Hall estate claim to be living in fear of gangs who roam the streets after dark.• Aeons ago, prehistoric animals roamed these parts and hid in the Paviland Caves below the cliffs.roam the countryside/desert/forests etc• Pride is one thing: a wild beast which lives in caves and roams the desert.• Such double-bodied beings were thought to have roamed the forests and pasturelands adjacent to Arcadian Olympia.• One sensed the aloneness, and would she be roaming the desert if there were a husband to worry about?• Would you rather have them roaming the countryside on trail bikes or all-terrain vehicles?roam over• Harry's eyes roamed over her body.roam verbLDOCE OnlineChinese
usually for travel, to walk Corpus a or long
roam
roam /rəʊm $ roʊm/
verb
1. [intransitive and transitive] to walk or travel, usually for a long time, with no clear purpose or direction ⇨ wander
roam over/around/about etc
The dogs are allowed to roam around.
Chickens and geese roam freely in the back yard.
You shouldn’t let your children roam the streets.
roam the countryside/desert/forests etc
Wild sheep roam the hills.
2. [intransitive always + adverb/preposition, transitive] if your eyes roam over something, you look slowly at all parts of it:
Her eyes roamed the room.
roam over
His eyes roamed over the bookshelves.
■ to travel
▪travel to go from one place to another, especially places that are far apart: We travelled to Russia by train. | I love to travel.
▪go to go somewhere – often used instead of travel: We’re going to Greece for our holidays this year. | He’s gone to London on business. | It’s quicker to go by plane.
▪commute to travel to work or school: She commutes to work by bicycle.
▪cross to travel across a very large area, for example a desert or ocean: The slaves crossed the Atlantic in the holds of the ships.
▪tour to travel in order to visit many different places, especially as part of a holiday: They’re touring Europe by coach.
▪go trekking to do a long and difficult walk in a place far from towns and cities: They went trekking in the mountains. | She’s been trekking in Nepal a couple of times.
▪go backpacking to travel to a lot of different places, carrying your clothes with you in your rucksack: He went backpacking in Australia.
▪roam especially written to travel or move around an area with no clear purpose or direction, usually for a long time: When he was young, he roamed from one country to another. | The tribes used to roam around freely, without any fixed territory.
▪journey literary to travel, especially a long distance: He journeyed on horseback through Palestine.
roam /rəʊm $ roʊm/
verb1. [intransitive and transitive] to walk or travel, usually for a long time, with no clear purpose or direction ⇨ wander
roam over/around/about etc
roam the countryside/desert/forests etc
2. [intransitive always + adverb/preposition, transitive] if your eyes roam over something, you look slowly at all parts of it:
roam over
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