hither and thither

基本解释

We had half-an-hour for writing our copybooks; that was a time when, pen in hand, I used to become absent-minded and my thoughts wandered hither and thither.
我们有半小时的时间摹写字帖；这段时间我常心不在焉，手里拿着笔，思想却在到处漫游。
And he fails to point out the humour of sabbatical man jet-setting hither and thither to discuss such staples of modern academic life as poverty and inequality.
并且在描述那些借学术交流之际游玩世界并讨论贫困和不平等的教授时缺乏幽默。
The three passions, like great winds, have blown me hither and thither, in a wayward course, over a deep ocean of anguish, reaching to the very verge of despair.
这些情感像大风一样吹来吹去，方向不定，越过深沉痛苦的海洋，直达绝望的边缘。

EU. And an apparently insouciant Mr Zoellick has been jetting around the world signing bilateral deals hither and thither.
ECONOMIST: The spat between America and Europe heats up