peripatetic

英 [,per?p?'tet?k] 美[,p?r?p?'t?t?k]

GRE暢通詞匯

peripatetic 巡回工作的，流動(dòng)的

來自希臘語peripatein,走動(dòng)，講學(xué)，授課，來自peri-,在周圍，-pat,走動(dòng)，詞源同path,foot.該詞原用于形容古希臘哲學(xué)家亞里士多德給弟子講課時(shí)，喜歡邊走邊講，后引申詞義巡回工作的，流動(dòng)的等。

peripatetic: peripatetic: [16] Peripatetic means literally ‘walking round’. It comes via Old French peripatetique and Latin peripatēticus from Greek peripatētikós. This was a derivative of peripatein, a compound verb formed from the prefix perí- ‘round’ and patein ‘walk’. But the Greeks used it not simply for ‘walk around’, but specifically for ‘teach while walking around’ – an allusion to the teaching methods of Aristotle, who discussed and argued with his pupils and followers while walking about in the Lyceum, a garden near the temple of Apollo in Athens.

Hence adherents of Aristotle’s school of philosophy are known as Peripatetics. The more general use of the adjective for ‘itinerant’ represents a relatively modern (17th-century) return to its etymological meaning.
peripatetic (n.): c. 1400, "disciple of Aristotle," from Old French perypatetique (14c.), from Latin peripateticus "pertaining to the disciples or philosophy of Aristotle," from Greek peripatetikos "given to walking about" (especially while teaching), from peripatein "walk up and down, walk about," from peri- "around" (see peri-) + patein "to walk, tread" (see find (v.)). Aristotle's custom was to teach while strolling through the Lyceum in Athens. In English, the philosophical meaning is older than that of "person who wanders about" (1610s).
peripatetic (adj.): 1560s in the philosophical sense, 1640s in the literal sense; see peripatetic (n.).

2. Her father was in the army and the family led a peripatetic existence.: 她父親是軍人，所以全家人隨軍過著一種流動(dòng)的生活。

4. Accompanying the peripatetic Secretary of State on his shuttle diplomacy marathons.: 伴隨四處奔走的國務(wù)卿于穿梭外交的馬拉松旅途上.

5. A wolf, likes peripatetic wandering around lonely and prefers listening to the song.: 一只喜歡孤獨(dú)游走,且喜歡聽歌的炎狼.