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单词 Wanderjahr
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Definition of Wanderjahr in English:

Wanderjahr

nounPlural Wanderjahre ˈvandəjɑːˈvändərˌyär
North American
  • A year spent travelling abroad, typically immediately before or after a university or college course.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Rigorous and lengthy clinical training replaced the short courses, European Wanderjahre, and apprenticeships of antebellum America.
    • Huxley filled these scientific Wanderjahre with the usual minutiae of technical studies on jellyfishes and grand adventures with the aboriginal peoples of Australia and several Pacific islands.
    • After graduating from Earlham College in Richmond, Ind., in 1997, Overbeck embarked on a yearlong Wanderjahr throughout Southeast Asia studying the golf course industry with a grant from the Thomas J. Watson Foundation.
    • His stay in Rome then would have been less a Wanderjahr and presumably more akin to a business trip.
    • In 1894-5 during his Wanderjahr in Europe, this young American star was welcomed by the leading mathematically inclined theorists in every country.
    • His obsession with the Holocaust since boyhood led him to a city that would wake him up, and he likens his self-imposed Wanderjahre to having ‘a bucket of cold water thrown at your face every morning.’
    • What he learned and experienced during his adolescence and early manhood could scarcely be described by Goethe's terms Lehrjahre or Wanderjahre.

Origin

Late 19th century: German, literally 'wander year'.

 
 

Definition of Wanderjahr in US English:

Wanderjahr

nounˈvändərˌyär
North American
  • A year spent traveling abroad, typically immediately before or after a university or college course.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • What he learned and experienced during his adolescence and early manhood could scarcely be described by Goethe's terms Lehrjahre or Wanderjahre.
    • In 1894-5 during his Wanderjahr in Europe, this young American star was welcomed by the leading mathematically inclined theorists in every country.
    • Huxley filled these scientific Wanderjahre with the usual minutiae of technical studies on jellyfishes and grand adventures with the aboriginal peoples of Australia and several Pacific islands.
    • His obsession with the Holocaust since boyhood led him to a city that would wake him up, and he likens his self-imposed Wanderjahre to having ‘a bucket of cold water thrown at your face every morning.’
    • After graduating from Earlham College in Richmond, Ind., in 1997, Overbeck embarked on a yearlong Wanderjahr throughout Southeast Asia studying the golf course industry with a grant from the Thomas J. Watson Foundation.
    • Rigorous and lengthy clinical training replaced the short courses, European Wanderjahre, and apprenticeships of antebellum America.
    • His stay in Rome then would have been less a Wanderjahr and presumably more akin to a business trip.

Origin

Late 19th century: German, literally ‘wander year’.

 
 
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