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• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /stɹəʊ̯l/
• (General American) IPA: /stɹoʊ̯l/
• 韻: -əʊl

名詞

stroll (plural strolls)

1. A wandering on foot; an idle and leisurely walk; a ramble; a saunter.

   Synonyms: wander, meander, stroll

2. (preceded by the) A dance of the 1950s in which dancers leisurely stepped, cross-stepped, and dipped at the knee to the beat of the music.

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動詞

stroll (third-person singular simple present strolls, present participle strolling, simple past and past participle strolled)

1. To wander on foot; to ramble idly or leisurely; to rove.
   • 1708, [Jonathan Swift], “The Metamorphosis of Baucis and Philemon, Burlesqu’d; from the 8th Book of Ovid”, in Baucis and Philemon; a Poem. […], London: […] H. Hills, […], published 1709, →OCLC, page 3:

     In Ancient Times, as Story tells, / The Saints would often leave their Cells, / And ſtrole about, but hide their Quality, / To try good Peoples Hoſpitality.

   • 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC, pages 87–88:

     The turmoil went on—no rest, no peace. [...] It was nearly eleven o'clock now, and he strolled out again. In the little fair created by the costers' barrows the evening only seemed beginning; and the naphtha flares made one's eyes ache, the men's voices grated harshly, and the girls' faces saddened one.

   • 1968 April 5, Paul Simon, “Mrs. Robinson”, in Bookends‎, performed by Simon & Garfunkel:

     Look around you, all you see are sympathetic eyes
     Stroll around the grounds until you feel at home

   • 2025 June 14, Robin Van Liebergen, “How not to summer in Marseille”, in FT Weekend (Life & Arts section), London: The Financial Times Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 19:

     More often than not, the best restaurants are found by strolling rather than scrolling.

2. To go somewhere with ease.
   • 1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, “His Own People”, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC, page 15:

     [A] delighted shout from the children swung him toward the door again. His sister, Mrs. Gerard, stood there in carriage gown and sables, radiant with surprise. "Phil! You! Exactly like you, Philip, to come strolling in from the antipodes—dear fellow!" recovering from the fraternal embrace and holding both lapels of his coat in her gloved hands.

3. (intransitive, slang) To walk the streets as a prostitute.
   • 1998, Joseph Ferone, Boomboom, page 24:

     "Nammers?" She'd told him before of some Vietnamese gang pressuring her to stroll for them. / "Don't even ask. You don't want to know."

4. (intransitive) To do, obtain, or achieve something in a casual and effortless way.

   Synonyms: breeze, ride, coast, romp, waltz

   Antonyms: labor, scrape, squeeze, limp, squeak

   My daughter strolled through the exam.

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