itinerant(形容词)指“巡回的;流动的;四处奔波的”,常用于形容工作或生活方式需要不断在不同地方之间移动的人或事物。(也可作名词,指“巡回工作者/流动人员”。)
/aɪˈtɪnərənt/
An itinerant teacher visits several schools each week.
一位巡回教师每周会去好几所学校授课。
After years of itinerant work across the country, she finally settled in a small coastal town, carrying stories from every city she had passed through.
在全国各地奔波工作多年后,她终于在一座海边小镇安定下来,带着她途经每座城市的故事。
来自拉丁语 *itinerant-*,源于 itinerari(“旅行、行路”),与 iter(“道路、旅程”)同源。整体含义围绕“沿路行走、到处移动”,后来引申为“巡回的、流动的”。