词汇 | peripatetic |
词源 | peripatetic. Aristotle’s habit of giving his lectures in the peri- patos, or walking place, of the Athenian lyceum gave his school of philosophy the name peripatetic, which centuries later yielded the English word peripatetic, “walking about or [teaching] carried on while walking from place to place.” |
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