jaunt
英 [dʒɔːnt]
美
- n. 远足；短途旅游
- vi. 远足；作短途旅游
词态变化
复数: jaunts;
助记提示
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.
英英释意
- 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.
实用场景例句
- They are off for a day's jaunt to the beach.
- 他们出去到海边玩一天.
《现代英汉综合大词典》
- She's gone on a jaunt into town.
- 她到城里游逛去了.
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- 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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