单词 | pedestrian |
释义 | pe·des·tri·an I. 1. a. < a dry laborious pedestrian student of facts — Havelock Ellis > b. < in a pedestrian world he held to the old cavalier grace — John Buchan > c. of style < urbane, richly allusive … almost never pens a pedestrian page — Dixon Wecter > < his sentences and phrases are too often pedestrian, commonplace, and flat — Times Literary Supplement > 2. a. < a dog will scurry before and behind his pedestrian master — George Santayana > b. < a pedestrian journey > < pedestrian races > c. < complained about the pedestrian distances — Lewis Mumford > II. a. < an indefatigable pedestrian > < he liked company on a walk … and most of his guests were not pedestrians — R.M.Lovett > b. < signalled traffic to halt to allow pedestrians to cross the street > |
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