最近的床頭書在講「走路」這件事，裡頭常常提到英文裡各式各樣的「走」，今天乾脆把韋氏字典拿出來翻一翻整理一下：

wander

intransitive verb

1 a: to move about without a fixed course, aim, or goal b: to go idly about : ramble <wandering around the house>

2 : to follow a winding course : meander

3 a: to go astray (as from a course) : stray<wandered away from the group> b: to go astray morally : err c: to lose normal mental contact : stray in thought wandered>

transitive verb: to roam over <wandered the halls>

potter

: putter: 1 : to move or act aimlessly or idly 2 : to work at random : tinker

mooch

intransitive verb

1 : to wander aimlessly : amble; also : sneak

2 : beg, sponge

transitive verb

1 : to take surreptitiously : steal

2 : beg, sponge

上面這幾個字都可以表示「漫無目的」地走，不過韋氏字典說，就算是「漫無目的」還是有些許不一樣： （我懶得翻譯，有興趣的人自己看！）

synonyms wander, roam, ramble, rove, traipse, meander mean to go about from place to place usually without a plan or definite purpose. wander implies an absence of or an indifference to a fixed course wandering about the square just watching the people>. roam suggests wandering about freely and often far afield roam through the woods>. ramble stresses carelessness and indifference to one's course or objective rambled on without ever coming to the point>. rove suggests vigorous and sometimes purposeful roaming roved over the countryside>. traipse implies a course that is erratic but may sometimes be purposeful <traipsed all over town looking for the right dress>. meander implies a winding or intricate course suggestive of aimless or listless wandering meandersfor miles through rich farmland>. 

下面三個則是「閒適」或「悠哉」地走。

stroll

intransitive verb

1 :to go from place to place in search of work or profit <strolling players> <strolling musicians>

2 : to walk in a leisurely or idle manner : ramble （悠哉地到處亂晃？）

transitive verb: to walk at leisure along or about 

saunter

: to walk about in an idle or leisurely manner : stroll <sauntered slowly down the street> 

amble

: to go at or as if at an amble : saunter 

還有不同的走路姿態，像是走路搖搖晃晃：

totter

1 a: to tremble or rock as if about to fall : sway b: to become unstable : threaten to collapse

2 : to move unsteadily : stagger , wobble

走路不穩也可以是因為肢體殘障：

limp

1 a: to walk lamely ; especially : to walk favoring one leg b: to go unsteadily : falter

2 : to proceed slowly or with difficulty limped back to port>

hobble

intransitive verb: to move along unsteadily or with difficulty ; especially: to limp along

transitive verb

1 : to cause to limp : make lame : cripple

2 [probably alteration of hopple to hobble] a: to fasten together the legs of (as a horse) to prevent straying : fetter b: to place under handicap : hamper , impede

或是走路無精打采：

dawdle

intransitive verb

1 : to spend time idly

2 : to move lackadaisically

transitive verb: to spend fruitlessly or lackadaisically <dawdled the day away>

或手舞足蹈：

gambol

: to skip about in play : frisk, frolic

或拖著腳步地走：

shuffle

transitive verb

1 : to mix in a mass confusedly : jumble

2 : to put or thrust aside or under cover <shuffled the whole matter out of his mind>

3 a: to rearrange (as playing cards, dominoes, or tiles) to produce a random order b: to move about, back and forth, or from one place to another : shift<shuffle funds among various accounts>

4 a: to move (as the feet) by sliding along or back and forth without lifting b: to perform (as a dance) with a dragging, sliding step

intransitive verb

1 : to work into or out of trickily <shuffled out of the difficulty>

2 : to act or speak in a shifty or evasive manner

3 a: to move or walk in a sliding dragging manner without lifting the feet b: to dance in a lazy nonchalant manner with sliding and tapping motions of the feet c: to execute in a perfunctory or clumsy manner

4 : to mix playing cards or counters by shuffling

shamble

: to walk awkwardly with dragging feet : shuffle  （怯懦地拖著腳步走）

既然可以怯生生的拖著腳步走，也可以畏畏縮縮地慢慢走：

schlep

transitive verb: drag, haul