mid-14c., "travelling, roving," from Anglo-French erraunt, from two Old French words that were confused even before they reached English: 1. Old French errant, present participle of errer "to travel or wander," from Late Latin iterare, from Latin iter "journey, way," from root of ire "to go" (see ion); 2. Old French errant, past participle of errer (see err). The senses fused in English 14c., but much of the sense of the latter since has gone with arrant.
雙語例句
1. Usually his cases involved errant husbands and wandering wives.
通常他接的案子都涉及出軌的丈夫和離家出走的妻子。
來自柯林斯例句
2. His errant son at Dartmouth ran up debts of ￡250m.
他那行為出格的兒子在達(dá)特茅斯欠下了高達(dá)2億5千萬英鎊的債務(wù)。
來自柯林斯例句
3. She went to Paris to bring back her errant son.
她到巴黎去把誤入歧途的兒子領(lǐng)回來.
來自《簡(jiǎn)明英漢詞典》
4. She went to New York to bring back her errant daughter.
她去紐約帶回她那步入歧途的女兒.
來自辭典例句
5. An errant husband is one who leaves his wife for other women.