desultory

• adj. 断続的な；散在した；支離滅裂な、無秩序な

d-、down、away。-サーカスの調教師が馬から馬へ飛び移る芸をすること。

desultory

desultory: [16] Latin dēsultor designated a circus trick-rider who jumped from the back of one horse to another while they were galloping along (it was a derivative of dēsilīre, a compound verb formed from dē- ‘down’ and salīre ‘jump’, source of or related to English assail, assault, insult, salacious, salient, and sally). From it was derived an adjective dēsultōrius ‘jumping from one thing to another like a dēsultor’, hence ‘superficial’, and eventually ‘unmethodical, irregular’, the sense which survives in English.
=> assail, assault, insult, salacious, salient

desultory (adj.)

1580s, "skipping about," from Latin desultorius "hasty, casual, superficial," adjective form of desultor (n.) "a rider in the circus who jumps from one horse to another while they are in gallop," from desul-, stem of desilire "jump down," from de- "down" (see de-) + salire "to jump, leap" (see salient (adj.)). Sense of "irregular, without aim or method" is c. 1740. Related: Desultorily; desultoriness.

1. I wandered about in a desultory fashion.

私はあてもなくぶらぶらしています。

2.Do not let the discusion fragment into a desultory conversation with no clear direction.

議論が支離滅裂にならないように、明確な方向性のない漫談になるようにしてください。

3.Carrie followed up this desultory conversation with occasional interruptions from the Vances.

キャリーはこのように気軽に話を続けていて、マンズ夫妻もたまには少し差し込んでいます。

4.The constables made a desultory attempt to keep them away from the barn.

警察は納屋に近づかないように漫然と止めている。

5.Judith now entered into a desultory discourse with Deerslayer.

ユーティリティは鹿とおしゃべりを始めた。