单词 | return journey |
释义 | > as lemmasreturn journey return journey n. ΚΠ 1812 J. Mawe Trav. Interior Brazil xvii. 290 The mules on the return-journey are all loaded with salt, iron, cheap cotton- prints, woollens (particularly baizes), hats, fire-arms, powder and shot, and a variety of artificers' tools. 1865 Daily Tel. 13 Dec. 5/4 I found that everybody was coming back again, and I performed the return journey. a1933 J. A. Thomson Biol. for Everyman (1934) II. 908 The Pacific golden plover winters in the Sandwich Islands and nests in distant Alaska; on its return journey, at least, it seems to fly without any rest for 2,000 miles across the pathless sea. 2000 R. W. Holder Taunton Cider & Langdons v. 24 The best you can hope for is a full load outward bound, and bits and pieces which make up part of a load for part of the way on the return journey. < as lemmas |
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