I wandered about in a desultory fashion.
我漫无目的地四处游荡。
a desultory conversation
漫无边际的谈话
1.不连贯的,无条理的
2.散漫的,杂乱的
3.离奇的,古怪的
1.showing that you have no plan or enthusiasm for what you are doing
1.Do not let the discussion fragment into a desultory conversation with no clear direction.
不要让讨论变得支离破碎，成为没有明确方向的漫谈。
2.The careful study of a few books is better than the desultory reading of many.
精心研究几部书胜过随意地读许多书。
3.She read much of a desultory sort of literature and as a modern linguist had really made great proficiency.
她阅读了不少乱七八糟的作品，作为一个现代语言学家，她当真是非常熟练的。
4.She received him in a little parlor: a small unspeckled bower, ornamented with a desultory foliage of tissue paper.
她在一间小小的客厅里接待他。小小的房间一尘不染，室内装饰着用皱纸做成的飘逸的枝叶。
5.That he was a desultory tentative student of something and everything might only have been predicted of him.
从他身上大概可以猜测出，他是一个对什么事情都想广泛学习的学生。
6.But what was, only a decade ago, a desultory campaign against the disease now looks like a determined assault.
但是就在10年前，应对该疾病所采取的行动还是散乱的，如今似乎变成了坚定的战斗。
7.The three brothers and the sister sat round the desolate breakfast table, attempting some sort of desultory consultation.
兄弟三个和妹妹围坐在黯淡凄凉的餐桌前，勉强东拉西扯着各自的打算。
8.After returning from rounding up the cattle on that morning in November, Drummond conducted a desultory few hours of homeschooling.
11月的那个早上，蕾外出放牧牛群归来后，便开始断断续续地花上几个小时进行家庭教育。
9.The two Palestinian factions, bitter rivals for years, have made various desultory efforts to settle their differences.
这两大多年对立的巴勒斯坦组织，为解决双方的分歧作出了断断续续的各种努力。
10.His conduct during these first weeks had been desultory beyond description .
在开始的几个礼拜里，他的行为散漫得没法形容。