释义 |
ˈsight-seer [f. as prec.] One who goes about to see the sights of a place or places.
1834G. Crabbe Jun. in Poet. Wks. G. Crabbe I. viii. 207 A friend in town procured us those very eligible rooms for sight-seers, in Osborne's Hotel, Adelphi. 1849Curzon Monast. Levant xv. 204 Nothing better or worse than Englishmen and sightseers. 1860Thackeray Round. Papers, Week's Holiday, Humour and grotesqueness, which gives the sight-seer the most singular zest and pleasure. 1884Sala Journ. South i. xx, The..society-loving patrons of the Roman season are a very different class from the sightseer. |