excursion
excursion 英 [ɪkˈskɜ:ʃn] 美 [ɪkˈskɜrʒn]
n. 远足;短程旅行
名词复数:excursions
- An excursion is taken more for pleasure than for practical reasons. Your business trip, when you spent most of the week waiting in airports and adjusting to different time zones, does not count as an excursion.
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- n. 远足;短程旅行
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1. I joined their excursion.
我加入了他们的远足。
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2. They've gone on an excursion to York.
他们到约克旅游去了。
- excursion (n.) 1570s, "a deviation in argument," also "a military sally," from Latin excursionem (nominative excursio) "a running forth, sally, excursion, expedition," figuratively "an outset, opening," noun of action from past-participle stem of excurrere "run out, run forth, hasten forward; project, extend," from ex "out" (see ex-) + currere "to run" (from PIE root *kers- "to run"). Sense of "journey" recorded in English by 1660s.
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