单词 | voyage |
释义 | voyage From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Watervoyagevoy‧age1 /ˈvɔɪ-ɪdʒ/ ●●○ noun [countable]1 TTWTRAVELa long journey in a ship or spacecraft The voyage from England to India used to take six months.maiden voyage (=first journey) the Titanic’s make the voyage single-handed. I don’t want to These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise.► see thesaurus at journey2 → voyage of discoveryExamples from the Corpusvoyage• After a voyage of investigation in 1584 a colony that was intended to be permanent was launched in 1585.• During the brief voyage Tom lived in a peculiar atmosphere of doom and of heroic, unselfish courage.• Captain James Cook, whose parents were local farmworkers, set out on his celebrated voyages of discovery from this estuary.• For the first time during the entire voyage, he failed to respond instantly to a request.• We are on the way, but on a rather longer voyage than we knew.• In fact much of the Ancient Mariner came from the sea voyages of discovery.• Jaq had spent the remainder of the voyage feeling exalted, yet pitiful. maiden voyage• Read in studio A rather unusual hot air balloon has completed its maiden voyage.• As Dole and Kemp headed across the country, the team of surrogates was making its maiden voyage in California. Watervoyagevoyage2 verb [intransitive always + adverb/preposition] literaryTTWTRAVELto travel to a place, especially by ship→ See Verb tableExamples from the Corpusvoyage• The string confined flight to the limits of a circle, like a satellite voyaging around the earth.• In my heart I am voyaging down the river too.• Year after year he voyaged, hurried from one perilous adventure to another.• Bishop Jon breathed gently, the stylus in his scrolled fingers voyaging up and down on the buoy of his abdomen.Origin voyage1 (1200-1300) Old French voiage, from Latin viaticum, from via “way” |
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