jaunt
英 [d???nt]
美
- n. 遠(yuǎn)足;短途旅游
- vi. 遠(yuǎn)足;作短途旅游
暢通詞匯GRE
詞態(tài)變化
復(fù)數(shù):?jaunts;
助記提示
1. 接姑姑,小龍女短途旅行歸來,楊過興高采烈地去接姑姑。
中文詞源
jaunt 短途旅行
詞源不詳,可能同jump,跳。引申詞義顛簸,痛苦的行程,這也是該詞原先的詞義,后來用于指短途旅行,游覽,歡快的行程。字母m,n音變,比較home,haunt,lamp,lantern.
英英釋意
- 1. a journey taken for pleasure;
- "many summer excursions to the shore"
- "it was merely a pleasure trip"
- "after cautious sashays into the field"
英文詞源
- jaunt (n.)
- 1670s in modern sense of "short pleasure trip," earlier "tiresome journey" (1590s), earlier as a verb, "tire a horse by riding back and forth on it" (1560s), of unknown origin, perhaps from some obscure Old French word. As a verb in the modern sense from 1640s. Related: Jaunted; jaunting.
實用場景例句
- They are off for a day's jaunt to the beach.
- 他們出去到海邊玩一天.
《現(xiàn)代英漢綜合大詞典》
- She's gone on a jaunt into town.
- 她到城里游逛去了.
期刊摘選
- They jaunt about quite a lot, especially during the summer.
- 他們常常到處閑逛, 夏天更是如此.
期刊摘選