| 词组 | maunder, meander |
| 释义 | maunder, meander A sense connoting "rambling about" is shared by maunder and meander. Some critics would like maunder to refer only to speech while meander may apply to both speech and literal walking or rambling about. But the OED shows maunder used of walking or rambling from about 1746, while meander comes later, appearing in 1831. Over the years, though, meander has become the more often used word. While maunder has not dropped out of use in this sense, it is not found frequently: • ... a maundering and very leisurely railway nosed its way up the valley —H. Warner Allen, in Wines ofthe World, 1967 • ... the dark unlit streets with only an occasional car maundering by —Malcolm Muggeridge, Esquire, April 1970 • ... I thought I would maunder along the river — David Sheridan, Smithsonian, February 1983 One is more likely to encounter meander: • ... the rows of bricks that meandered along walls — Joy De Weese-Wehen, Horizon, August 1979 • Black Creek is a wide, meandering stream with broad sandbars —Russell M. Daley, Southern Living, November 1971 • ... fill up your gas tank and meander north —Theodore Fischer, Apartment Life, September 1979 • ... a mere trickle of an unfledged watercourse meandering through the Piedmont —William Styron, This Quiet Dust and Other Writings, 1982 • ... it [a road] lost heart... and meandered off in a lackadaisical path toward the mountain —Russell Baker, Growing Up, 1982 |
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