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单词 Wandervogel
释义 Wandervogel|ˈvandərfoːgəl|
Pl. -vögel ( -vogel -vogeln).
[G., lit. ‘bird of passage’.]
A member of the German youth organization founded by H. Hoffmann at the end of the 19th century for the promotion of out-of-door activities, esp. hiking, and folk culture, as a reaction against the materialistic values of middle-class city life. Also transf., a rambler or hiker. Occas. as v. intr. So ˌwanderˈvogeling vbl. n.
1924D. H. Lawrence Let. 9 Aug. (1932) 606 If it's going to be Youth, then let it be Youth on the warpath, not wandervogeling and piping imitation nature tunes to the taste of milk and chocolate.1928Lady Chatterley i. 3 They sang the wandervogel songs.1935J. Buchan House of Four Winds ii. 49 They were remarkable young men..not in the least like the Wandervögel whom he had met on many German roads, comfortable sunburnt folk out for a holiday.1944M. Samuel Harvest in Desert xviii. 185 In Germany the Wandervogel, youthful rebels against the stodginess of middle-class life.1958Listener 31 July 149/2 The wandervogel student of 1912 with his guitar.1962P. Purser Peregrinnation 22 xlviii. 223 A couple of the young mid-century wandervogeln you find in any youth hostel in Europe.1967Listener 30 Nov. 705/3 Around 1930, alienated and disaffected youth was being manufactured mainly in Germany, where the First War had produced the biggest earthquake. Some of them called themselves the Wandervögel, and wandered around Europe with their guitars and their interchangeable girlfriends, living on what they could get wherever sympathisers would accept them.1978J. I. M. Stewart Full Term xxi. 241 A bunch of juvenile Wandervögel.
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