汉英词典
Chinese-English Dictionary
MEANING OF 东游西荡
东游西荡 (東遊西蕩)
fool around
() dōng () yóu 西 () dàng
EXAMPLE SENTENCES

他老是东游西荡,无所事事。

He is always messing around doing nothing.

一些年轻人不在学校学习却整天东游西荡

Some young people simply mess around all day when they are supposed to be at school.

两年多的时间,彼得在国内东游西荡,无所事事。

Peter spent more than two years wandering about the country at loose ends.

他在城里东游西荡,几乎不知道自己要去哪儿,也不知道周围发生了什么事。

He wandered here and there in the city, hardly noticing where he was going, or what was happening around him.

这些热情如阵阵巨风,任性地带着我东游西荡,越过痛苦至深的海洋,直抵绝望的边缘。

These passions, like great winds, have blown me hither and thither, in a wayward course, over a great ocean of anguish, reaching to the very verge of despair.

我会东逛西荡,迷失方向。

I'd 1 hang around, I'd lose my way.

我们在西湖里荡一叶小舟。

We paddled a little boat in the West Lake.

你荡太高了!

You're swinging too high!

绳索在微风中悬荡。

The rope dangled in the breeze.

势能就是所荡的高度部分。

Potential energy is the high part of swinging.