| 单词 | pleasure trip |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspleasure trip pleasure trip n. ΘΚΠ society > travel > aspects of travel > a journey > [noun] > excursion > for pleasure jaunt1678 trip1749 excursion1779 run1780 pleasure trip1829 pleasuring1869 booze cruise1994 1829 W. C. J. Lewin Autobiogr. in Lewin Lett. (1909) I. ii. 225 During our pleasure trip on shore he had been confined to the ship. 1926 Daily Chron. 13 May 3/6 The 20,000 ton R.M.S. steamer Otranto struck a rock on the way to the port of Athens... The Otranto is on a pleasure trip. 1984 T. Mallon Bk. of One's Own (1985) ii. 62 He seems to have enjoyed himself, even if it was not strictly a pleasure trip. pleasure trip c. A short journey (by sea or land) for pleasure or health, an excursion (more fully pleasure trip); in later use often applied to such a journey whatever its length. Also applied to a passage by rail provided at a fare lower than the usual; a cheap trip, an excursion; occasionally short for ‘party of trippers’ or ‘trip-train’.This arose imperceptibly out of a or b, and it is not easy to fix its first use. ΘΚΠ society > travel > aspects of travel > a journey > [noun] > excursion > for pleasure jaunt1678 trip1749 excursion1779 run1780 pleasure trip1829 pleasuring1869 booze cruise1994 1749 Lady Luxborough Let. Nov. in Lett. to W. Shenstone (1775) 159 If you would take a trip to this little Retreat at this melancholy season. 1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth I. 152 A passage over the Alps, or a journey across the Pyrenees, appear petty trips or excursions, in the comparison. 1812 Religionism 25 Lectureship Will meet th' expences of a country trip. 1861 G. W. Thornbury Life J. M. W. Turner I. 18 Later trips to Margate made him love Kent and the sea. 1880 Sat. Rev. 2 Oct. 423/2 On inquiring..what it all means, he is told that ‘a trip is in’ from some large manufacturing town, and his peace is gone, for that day at least. 1884 Times (Weekly ed.) 29 Aug. 14/1 [They] hurry off on flying trips to Kerry or Connemara. < as lemmas |
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