flâneur
noun [ C ] (also flaneur) uk/flænˈɜːr/ us/flænˈɜ˞ː/
游手好闲的人;悠闲的人
someone who walks around not doing anything in particular but watching people and society
She wanders around with her camera, a flâneur with a keen eye. 她带着照相机到处逛,游手好闲却眼光敏锐。
Lisbon is a city built for the ultra-relaxed, aimless flaneur. 里斯本是为极度放松、漫无目的的悠闲人士所建造的城市。
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- The artist depicts herself as a melancholy urban flâneur.
- The flâneur was born in Romantic poetry - the Wordsworth of The Prelude as well as Baudelaire.
- He explores the neighbourhood with the experienced, imperturbable eye of a flaneur.
- These were the districts which novelists, flaneurs and artists had explored for their poetic obscurity.