travelling from place to place, especially to find work 巡回的;流动的;(尤指为找工作)四处奔波的 itinerant workers/musicians 流动工人;巡回乐师 to lead an itinerant life 过漂泊不定的生活
Extra ExamplesHe was the son of an itinerant oil field worker. 他是一个流动油田工人的儿子。 People soon heard that there was an itinerant preacher in town. 人们很快听说镇上有一个巡回传教士。
Oxford Collocations DictionaryItinerant is used with these nouns:- preacher
- trader
Word Originlate 16th cent. (used to describe a judge travelling on a circuit): from late Latin itinerant- ‘travelling’, from the verb itinerari, from Latin iter, itiner- ‘journey, road’.