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单词 adventure
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adventure
(ædventʃəʳ )
Word forms: adventures , adventuring, adventured
1. countable noun A2
If someone has an adventure, they become involved in an unusual, exciting, and rather dangerous journey or series of events.
I set off for a new adventure in the United States.
Synonyms: venture, experience, chance, risk  
2. uncountable noun
Adventure is excitement and willingness to do new, unusual, or rather dangerous things.
Their cultural backgrounds gave them a spirit of adventure.
...a feeling of adventure and excitement.
Synonyms: excitement, action, passion, thrill  
3. verb
If you adventure somewhere, you go somewhere new, unusual, and exciting. [written]
The group has adventured as far as the Austrian alps. [VERB preposition/adverb]
Synonyms: venture, risk, brave, dare  
Quotations:
An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly consideredG.K. ChestertonAll Things Considered
Collocations:
adventure bike
Most people think buying an adventure bike means loading the thing up and riding off to some far-flung destination.
The Sun
Most of the excitement, though, surrounds the adventure bike.
The Sun
That 2007 telly series kick-started the adventure bike market into life.
The Sun
adventure camp
Other activities include riding, tennis, golf and an adventure camp with a ropes course and climbing wall.
Globe and Mail
Voluntary adventure camps were arranged for school holidays and many pupils were encouraged to continue into careers in the military and security services.
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Zip line tours are becoming popular vacation activities, found at outdoor adventure camps or upscale resorts, where they may be an element on a larger challenge or ropes course.
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adventure feature
It's perfect material for spin-off games such as this, a platform adventure featuring dozens of characters from the series.
Times, Sunday Times
The software maker, responsible for all three games here, has not done a straight conversion of the board game but has created a graphic-novel-style adventure featuring the original six suspects.
Times, Sunday Times
This dating-sim adventure features a large amount of characters, old and new, as the game goes on.
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adventure novel
But, as nearly all his books, this adventure novel mixes real events with fiction.
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An adventure novel provides an illustration of the concept.
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This helps create the atmosphere of an adventure novel as readers are held in suspense along with the characters.
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The books were only published in paperback, as the series editor felt readers would not be prepared to pay the hardback price for an adventure novel.
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In all he wrote some 12 books, adventure novels with anarchist themes, several of them bestsellers and all under his false name.
Times, Sunday Times
adventure ride
The comedy actor played down his adventure ride in a cab.
Times, Sunday Times
It combines up-close animal encounters with a family adventure ride.
The Sun
This claims to be the world's fastest adventure ride.
Times, Sunday Times
The different responses to adventure rides between older and younger age groups have long been recognised by scientists.
Times, Sunday Times
Mountain bikes have been procured for adventure rides.
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adventure seeker
He describes himself as being outgoing, social, and an adventure seeker.
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On dry land, adventure seekers are also catered for.
The Sun
This kind of character, the political adventure seeker, here appears for the first time in the author's oeuvre, and would be used several times in his subsequent works.
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Aside from a handful of adventure seekers, few travelers ventured to the volatile southern provinces.
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There are dozens of outfitting companies in the area that cater to trophy hunters and back country adventure seekers.
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adventure story
A superb adventure story, filled with suspense and drama.
Times, Sunday Times
He understood it was more than just an adventure story.
Times, Sunday Times
It's a page-turner and a real adventure story.
The Sun
We started looking for funding and came across a publishing company that loved the idea of a two-menand- their-bikes adventure story.
Times, Sunday Times
A classic adventure story more than a football tale.
Times, Sunday Times
adventure tour
The report led to the creation of a compulsory register for adventure tour operators, which must now pass rigid safety audits.
Times, Sunday Times
Adventure tour operators are also targeting the pedal pound.
Times, Sunday Times
A number of adventure tour companies can assist visitors in safely experiencing these activities.
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The simple cabana-style rooms start at 92 per night and the hotel offers adventure tours and excursions.
Times, Sunday Times
You can combine a week on the beach with four or seven-night adventure tours taking in the cloudforests, zip-lining through the jungle canopy and tackling white water rapids.
The Sun
adventure tourist
The remote region was billed as a future destination for adventure tourists.
Times, Sunday Times
Although the area was not easily accessible and the organized adventure tourist industry did not yet exist, a few intrepid visitors made the trip to the then remote cave.
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It's more like extreme sleeping, a voyage for adventure tourists along the same lines as skydiving and bungee jumping.
Globe and Mail
Adventure tourists expect poor road conditions, unpaved roads and other mixed terrain.
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adventure trail
Regency country house, with play area and adventure trail.
Times, Sunday Times
It features a swimming pool, sauna, bar, adventure trail and a train ride.
The Sun
Organise some fun activities together, such as an adventure trail or tall tree ropes.
The Sun
The adventure trail consists of trampolines, balancing beams, hanging bridges and many more.
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Next to it exists an adventure trail with many activities related to the woods.
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adventure travel
Adventure travel, by its nature, can be a fast-changing market.
Times,Sunday Times
And if our early guidebooks lacked the sophistication of those today, so did adventure travel generally.
Times,Sunday Times
While calculated risks are an integral and essential part of adventure travel, the payoff should at least equal the perils endured in its achievement.
Times, Sunday Times
That lovely little adventure travel specialist you booked with turns out to belong to a company with 27 million customers (see chart below).
Times, Sunday Times
You could also buy one of the medical kits available at camping and adventure travel shops, which have many of the medications you would require.
ST
amazing adventure
Unsurprisingly, things don't go quite to plan and guests end up taking part in an amazing adventure.
The Sun
It was an amazing adventure and my wife seemed to have a brilliant time.
The Sun
The amazing adventure will live with me for ever.
The Sun
It was an amazing adventure, though.
The Sun
The inseparable trio are convinced this could be the beginning of an amazing adventure and set out to crack the code and discover the meaning of the messages.
The Sun
animated adventure
Animated adventure about a robot inventor who heads for the city to make his fortune, where he battles the machinations of big business.
The Sun
With the sequel in cinemas now, take this chance to revisit the first hilarious animated adventure.
The Sun
Timeless animated adventure about a stray moggie who helps an abandoned cat and her kittens return home.
The Sun
With the fourth edition of the franchise currently showing in the cinemas, why not relive the opening chapter of this animated adventure.
The Sun
In this charming animated adventure, an orphaned dinosaur sets off in search of a legendary valley, acquiring a group of unusual friends along the way.
The Sun
crave adventure
I crave adventure - it's in my blood.
Times, Sunday Times
I am more sociable than him, and crave adventure.
Times, Sunday Times
I craved adventure and a career with a sense of purpose.
The Sun
At school, she was bored and restless: she craved adventure, and enjoyed drama classes because 'they were a team of outsiders'.
Times, Sunday Times
culinary adventure
But it was after she was made redundant that her culinary adventure really took off.
Times, Sunday Times
Doughnuts with chocolate and raspberry dips completed my hygge-style culinary adventure.
Times, Sunday Times
A broad menu offers all manner of culinary adventure.
Times, Sunday Times
Some kitchens, he once wrote, are like well-stocked shrines, inviting culinary adventure, while in others fridges bear 'no more than a few viruses flourishing in jars'.
The Times Literary Supplement
Other current ventures include personal and online guitar instruction, additional culinary adventures, book writing, painting/sketching, photography, musical production and public speaking.
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daring adventure
But the 18.5litre tank turns even the most daring adventure into a paranoid fuel-finding mission after around 140 miles.
The Sun
What starts as a routine holiday may turn into a romantic and daring adventure.
The Sun
But then they find a mysterious object buried in the sand and it isn't long before they are caught up in a daring adventure of their own.
The Sun
News of the duo's daring adventure spreads across the country.
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The gang (above) enjoy daring adventures.
The Sun
enjoy the adventure
The weather may not be the best but wrap up and enjoy your adventure.
The Sun
The whole family can enjoy the adventure of a lifetime - and all for a fantastic price.
The Sun
Finally, be sure to make friends and enjoy the adventure of university that you have worked so hard for.
Times, Sunday Times
When you've dried off, enjoy the adventure play area, tennis and table tennis, and all sorts of games and sports events during the busy summer months.
The Sun
The younger gamers will thoroughly enjoy the adventure and older gamers won't be completely annoyed by having to either watch or play along.
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epic adventure
What an epic adventure to mark the show's 50th anniversary.
The Sun
With six one-hour episodes to enjoy, this promises to be a truly epic adventure.
The Sun
Your mojo might be sparked by a luxury beach break, an epic adventure or an adrenaline-charged ski trip.
Times, Sunday Times
Embark on an epic adventure through history.
The Sun
The show was billed as an epic adventure through beautiful landscapes with 'inevitable drama' - and drama there was.
The Sun
exciting adventure
It will sell the promise of exciting adventure weekends, cool weaponry and the odd ride in a helicopter.
Times, Sunday Times
Ferry or plane, it promises to be rather an exciting adventure.
Times, Sunday Times
She was high, and it sounded like an exciting adventure.
Times,Sunday Times
Running away together may seem like an exciting adventure but your friends probably don't realise the anguish they are causing.
The Sun
He loves day trips in the car with the promise of an exciting adventure and learning new tricks.
The Sun
experience an adventure
We want them to experience the adventure and rewards of personal evangelism.
Christianity Today
Some left to experience the adventure of migration.
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In order to experience the adventure in whole, they make a camp every night, sleeping under the open sky.
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Together, the players may collaborate on a story involving those characters; create, develop, and explore the setting; or vicariously experience an adventure outside the bounds of everyday life.
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She added they were excited about experiencing the adventure together.
ST
fantasy adventure
The fantasy adventure saga concludes after 10 magical years.
The Sun
It's a fantasy adventure involving epic battles between helmet-wearing warriors - which all happen to be owls.
Times, Sunday Times
This clever fantasy adventure title has a superb plot based around the concept of time travel.
Times, Sunday Times
Back for a second series comes the family-friendly fantasy adventure set in the fabled city before it got lost.
Times, Sunday Times
That's exactly what happens in this fantasy adventure.
The Sun
fun adventure
Epic, sea-faring and with beautiful cartoony graphics, it was a big, fun adventure.
The Sun
A fun adventure set in a fantastical world.
The Sun
It was a fun adventure, no pressure, relaxed, smooth, powerful but controlled.
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He tried to make shopping a fun adventure instead of a chore.
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They all had a fun adventure, but are glad to be back home.
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grand adventure
I wanted a big life, a grand adventure, and no one was going to hand it to me.
Times, Sunday Times
He switches from one rhetorical mode to another, from a kind of symbolist poetry to grand adventure narrative to picaresque comedy.
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The game ends with them sitting by a campfire sharing stories of their grand adventure before finally travelling back to their homes for the night.
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Other poems pit savvy human wisdom against arcane divine knowledge, and recount grand adventures and comic escapades.
The Times Literary Supplement
great adventure
I think it was very interesting and a great adventure but difficult.
The Sun
He could take me on a great adventure.
The Sun
That's how it feels at the end of the great adventure.
Times, Sunday Times
We looked upon the whole experience as a great adventure.
Times, Sunday Times
Since, at the moment, you've no choice but to go for it, regard what you're facing as a great adventure.
Times, Sunday Times
incredible adventure
It has been the most incredible adventure really.
Times, Sunday Times
Book now to secure your preferred cabin and a place on this incredible adventure.
Times, Sunday Times
I was launching myself into an incredible adventure.
Times, Sunday Times
Being only 17 years old at this time, he considers this period of his life as an incredible adventure.
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We've enjoyed incredible adventures as a family.
Times, Sunday Times
interactive adventure
Applications included interactive adventure games, and car engine diagnostic tools.
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More excitingly, there's a new world of interactive adventures on the way to change gaming for ever.
The Sun
They are then applied to interactive adventures.
Times, Sunday Times
magical adventure
It showcases the main characters at a sleepover and their magical adventure that night.
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He finds a toy rabbit that comes to life and takes him on a series of magical adventures.
The Sun
She finds herself embarking on a night of magical adventures.
The Sun
The series often features fantastic and magical adventures in faraway lands.
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Soon they find that it not only records events, but creates new magical adventures.
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outdoor adventure
Programmes in equine psychology, outdoor adventure and film fiction are claimed to be just as valuable as those in more familiar disciplines.
Times, Sunday Times
Proactive resorts are broadening their appeal by arranging golf tournaments, music festivals and investing in outdoor adventure parks with zip wires and other summer activities.
Times, Sunday Times
It houses the world's biggest indoor ice climbing wall, rock climbing and a new aerial outdoor adventure course.
The Sun
It's the outdoor adventure capital of the northwest.
Times, Sunday Times
They have combined cadet forces, leadership programmes, competitive sport, performing arts for all, outdoor adventure trips and reporting systems all geared to the development of character strengths.
Times, Sunday Times
romantic adventure
In love, you have a spirit of romantic adventure and an ability to start a relationship that could fulfil three precious hopes.
The Sun
You could call it a romantic adventure; realists have already named it 'mission impossible'.
Times, Sunday Times
He took up yoga to cure a bad back after another romantic adventure led to him tumbling from a drainpipe.
Times, Sunday Times
The best romantic adventure film.
Times, Sunday Times
What starts as a romantic adventure, though, degenerates into bickering, bad luck, and boredom.
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sci-fi adventure
Only bother if you're a young fan who's never seen this entertaining sci-fi adventure on the big screen.
The Sun
Likeable sci-fi adventure set in the 1930s about a pilot with an experimental rocket pack.
The Sun
In this sci-fi adventure, humanity fights back in the shape of giant robots.
The Sun
Like it had come from the set of a 1970s moon-based sci-fi adventure.
Times, Sunday Times
The autobots are at it again in this sci-fi adventure sequel.
The Sun
seek adventure
And people seek adventure also, of course, to get a thrill, a rush, an adrenalin fix.
Times, Sunday Times
They seek adventure wherever they go, including when they travel on their big red boat.
The Sun
The comfortably-off couples in their forties and fifties who seek adventure holidays combined with luxury are happy to travel to any corner of the globe.
Times, Sunday Times
We dare not allow our daily lives to become so comfortable that we are no longer challenged to grow, to seek adventure, to risk.
Christianity Today
He said in his memoirs that by the end of his course he was anxious to seek adventure at sea.
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sense of adventure
With the tulip bulb-planting season upon us, this sense of adventure should also be applied to our own gardens.
Times, Sunday Times
Or sometimes it's just a sense of adventure and romance.
Times, Sunday Times
Their lovely passing and tippassing and their sense of adventure caused havoc.
Times,Sunday Times
Ambitious ideas and a new sense of adventure flow through your chart, and the plans you make this week will transform your world.
The Sun
The body for common sense will be set up alongside a national campaign to emphasise the importance of self--reliance and a sense of adventure.
Times, Sunday Times
share an adventure
I don't see the point in having both of them share her adventure, especially since they wear the same costume and are hard to tell apart.
Times, Sunday Times
Tell him you would love him to keep in touch every way possible so you can share his adventures.
The Sun
Some owners are also fitting miniature cameras to share their adventures.
Times, Sunday Times
The characters are beautifully developed and you really share their adventures and emotions and care about their outcomes.
Times, Sunday Times
space adventure
Pupils had a mixed experience of their teddies' space adventure.
Times, Sunday Times
There's nothing particularly wrong with this space adventure, it's just that there's nothing obviously right, either.
The Sun
Cutting-edge technology propels riders into a different world, complete with virtual space suits, stunning visuals and an exciting space adventure.
The Sun
Two warring brothers find themselves on a perilous space adventure after playing a mysterious board game in this wonderful sci-fi fantasy.
The Sun
The two will develop and write the pilot script for the swashbuckling space adventure/drama.
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tale of adventure
Many do these things and return with tales of adventure, confirmation that they are lucky to live here, and a certain self-congratulatory arrogance.
Times, Sunday Times
This personal tribute makes for incredible reading and the tales of adventure and patriotic sacrifice are an inspiration.
The Sun
We will all miss his quirky humour, curiosity and tales of adventure.
Times,Sunday Times
He had used wit, charm, and tales of adventure to borrow money for extensive home business operations and investing.
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thrilling adventure
A thrilling adventure and a truly epic love story.
Times, Sunday Times
It's all the information you need to set sail on a thrilling adventure.
The Sun
That doesn't mean faith has been easy, but it has been the most thrilling adventure of my life.
Christianity Today
The show used to be a thrilling adventure with a clear storyline and scary villains.
Times, Sunday Times
The copious invention of background and the excitement of thrilling adventure carry the reader safely from mood to mood.
The Times Literary Supplement
ultimate adventure
Boat trips through boggy marshland, wilderness trails, zip-wires, treehouses and slides galore, it's a veritable eco-theme park — the ultimate adventure playground.
The Sun
Not so long ago, if you watched an army recruitment video, you might have mistaken a career there as the ultimate adventure break.
Times, Sunday Times
Enjoy the ultimate adventure on a luxury cruiser equipped with its own helicopter and high-speed jetboats.
Times, Sunday Times
It represents the ultimate adventure.
Times, Sunday Times
The requirements for earning an activity pin are determined locally by the team captain and are usually awarded at the conclusion of each ultimate adventure or sports season.
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wild adventure
For others, it's a tantalising refuge from the 21st century, a place to live out fantasies of wild adventure.
Times,Sunday Times
Love sets up choices between a wild adventure and a tender, true relationship.
The Sun
Go on a wild adventure together.
Christianity Today
A wet and wild adventure.
The Sun
Get ready to choose between a steady, supportive love and a wild adventure.
The Sun
wilderness adventure
Fear not, whatever the wilderness adventure, there are really only five disaster scenarios.
Times, Sunday Times
It's what every flashpacker really wants: wilderness adventures followed by wildly indulgent spa treatments.
Times, Sunday Times
The state's tourism agenda promotes ecologically sustained tourism, which focuses on the local culture, wilderness adventures, volunteering and personal growth of the local population.
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Surviving natural disasters, accidents, and becoming stranded on wilderness adventures are also frequent topics.
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This campground offers 122 sites (93 basic, 22 electrical sites and 7 seasonal) perfect for wilderness adventures.
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wonderful adventure
If you are single, this can mean a wonderful adventure linked to an ex.
The Sun
You'll visit planets, moons, asteroids and satellites, on a wonderful adventure around space - and beyond.
The Sun
But we've had a wonderful adventure and some experiences that will stand this group of players and staff in good stead for the future.
Times, Sunday Times
But they meet every day for lunch and supper, and he works in the garden — he showed me a wonderful adventure playground he made for the grandchildren.
Times, Sunday Times
It was a wonderful adventure.
Times, Sunday Times
Translations:
Chinese: 历险
Japanese: 冒険
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