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Definition of rolling stone in English: rolling stonenoun ˈrəʊlɪŋ ˌstəʊnˌroʊlɪŋ ˈstoʊn A person who is unwilling to settle for long in one place. 不定居的人；见异思迁的人 he was a rolling stone, with no ties to anyone or anyplace Example sentencesExamples - But he became a rolling stone, frequently changing clubs and missing a season here and there either through injury or because he couldn't find a club.
- Unlike a rolling stone, we've gathered a little moss.
- This week sees even you rolling stones settling into the pleasures of restful domesticity.
- This rolling stone also was a flamboyant, hard-drinking male chauvinist and dare-devil.
- His father was a rolling stone who was to busy doing drugs and caused his son to fear him by his behavior.
- You rolling stones are best off investigating the pleasures of domesticity this week.
- Free-spirited and eccentric she, the rolling stone of the crew, fills most of her time trying to find herself when she's not working on her documentary about single mothers.
- They're footloose, rolling stones, they have nomadic blood.
- In Washington, she found ‘the greatest collection of individualists, international rolling stones, and slightly batty geniuses ever gathered together in one organization.’
- In contrast, she plays her life like a game of chance, taking joy from the serendipity that a rolling stone existence brings her.
Synonyms tramp, drifter, down-and-out, derelict, beggar, itinerant, wanderer, nomad, wayfarer, traveller, gypsy, rover, vagabond, transient, migrant, homeless person, beachcomber, person of no fixed abode, person of no fixed address, knight of the road, bird of passage
Phrasesa rolling stone gathers no moss proverb A person who does not settle in one place will not accumulate wealth or status, or responsibilities or commitments. 〈谚〉滚石不生苔，转业不聚财 Example sentencesExamples - But sometimes you just have to take the rough with the smooth, watch the way the cookie crumbles, let sleeping dogs lie, and remember that a rolling stone gathers no moss.
- Just as a rolling stone gathers no moss, an active brain grows no hair.
- He was a jack of all trades and a master of a few of them but a rolling stone gathers no moss so he was never well off.
- He adds: ‘A rolling stone gathers no moss, and I need to be active.’
- He certainly was not sympathetic towards the spirituality of them, and he once commented to a friend considering the monastic life, ‘It is true that a rolling stone gathers no moss, but then, why should it?’
- A rolling stone gathers no moss, and a wavering judgment makes a fruitless life.
- Yet we must be mindful that a rolling stone gathers no moss.
Definition of rolling stone in US English: rolling stonenounˌrōliNG ˈstōnˌroʊlɪŋ ˈstoʊn A person who is unwilling to settle for long in one place. 不定居的人；见异思迁的人 he was a rolling stone, with no ties to anyone or anyplace Example sentencesExamples - In contrast, she plays her life like a game of chance, taking joy from the serendipity that a rolling stone existence brings her.
- In Washington, she found ‘the greatest collection of individualists, international rolling stones, and slightly batty geniuses ever gathered together in one organization.’
- This rolling stone also was a flamboyant, hard-drinking male chauvinist and dare-devil.
- This week sees even you rolling stones settling into the pleasures of restful domesticity.
- You rolling stones are best off investigating the pleasures of domesticity this week.
- But he became a rolling stone, frequently changing clubs and missing a season here and there either through injury or because he couldn't find a club.
- Unlike a rolling stone, we've gathered a little moss.
- They're footloose, rolling stones, they have nomadic blood.
- Free-spirited and eccentric she, the rolling stone of the crew, fills most of her time trying to find herself when she's not working on her documentary about single mothers.
- His father was a rolling stone who was to busy doing drugs and caused his son to fear him by his behavior.
Synonyms tramp, drifter, down-and-out, derelict, beggar, itinerant, wanderer, nomad, wayfarer, traveller, gypsy, rover, vagabond, transient, migrant, homeless person, beachcomber, person of no fixed abode, person of no fixed address, knight of the road, bird of passage
Phrasesa rolling stone gathers no moss proverb A person who does not settle in one place will not accumulate wealth or status, or responsibilities or commitments. 〈谚〉滚石不生苔，转业不聚财 Example sentencesExamples - Yet we must be mindful that a rolling stone gathers no moss.
- He was a jack of all trades and a master of a few of them but a rolling stone gathers no moss so he was never well off.
- A rolling stone gathers no moss, and a wavering judgment makes a fruitless life.
- Just as a rolling stone gathers no moss, an active brain grows no hair.
- But sometimes you just have to take the rough with the smooth, watch the way the cookie crumbles, let sleeping dogs lie, and remember that a rolling stone gathers no moss.
- He certainly was not sympathetic towards the spirituality of them, and he once commented to a friend considering the monastic life, ‘It is true that a rolling stone gathers no moss, but then, why should it?’
- He adds: ‘A rolling stone gathers no moss, and I need to be active.’
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