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翻译 · 词源 · 例句- n. 远足；短途旅游
- vi. 远足；作短途旅游
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词源 · 例句 · 用法词态变化
复数: jaunts;
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1. 接姑姑，小龙女短途旅行归来，杨过兴高采烈地去接姑姑。
中文词源
jaunt 短途旅行
词源不详，可能同jump,跳。引申词义颠簸，痛苦的行程，这也是该词原先的词义，后来用于指短途旅行，游览，欢快的行程。字母m,n音变，比较home,haunt,lamp,lantern.
英文词源
- 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.
双语例句
- 1. They are off for a day's jaunt to the beach.
- 他们出去到海边玩一天.
来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
- 2. Who, on a Sunday jaunt to the shore or mountains, has not pitied some self - employed drudge?
- 哪一个星期天到海滨或山上去游览的人不同情那些辛辛苦苦的个体经营者 呢 ?
来自辞典例句
- 3. They jaunt about quite a lot, especially during the summer.
- 他们常常到处闲逛, 夏天更是如此.
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- 4. She's gone on a jaunt into town.
- 她到城里游逛去了.
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