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单词 journey
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journey

noun
 
/ˈdʒɜːni/
/ˈdʒɜːrni/
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  1.  
    an act of travelling from one place to another, especially when they are far apart
    • They went on a long train journey across India.
    • to begin/continue/complete a journey
    • Many refugees made the journey alone.
    • Did you have a good journey?
    • the outward/return journey
    • We broke our journey (= stopped for a short time) in Madrid.
    • (British English) Don't use the car for short journeys.
    • It's a day's journey by car.
    • The average journey time is about 50 minutes.
    • on a journey She took her sister with her to keep her company on the journey.
    • journey from… Devizes is a two-hour journey from London.
    • journey to… It is unclear why he embarked on his final journey to Vienna.
    • (British English) I'm afraid you've had a wasted journey (= you cannot do what you have come to do).
    • (informal) Bye! Safe journey! (= used when somebody is beginning a journey)
    Synonyms triptrip
    • journey
    • tour
    • expedition
    • excursion
    • outing
    • day out
    These are all words for an act of travelling to a place.
    • trip an act of travelling from one place to another, and usually back again:
      • a business trip
      • a five-minute trip by taxi
    • journey an act of travelling from one place to another, especially when they are a long way apart:
      • a long and difficult journey across the mountains
    trip or journey?A trip usually involves you going to a place and back again; a journey is usually one-way. A trip is often shorter than a journey, although it does not have to be: a trip to New Yorka round-the-world trip. It is often short in time, even if it is long in distance. Journey is more often used when the travelling takes a long time and is difficult. In North American English journey is not used for short trips (British English) Don't use the car for short journeys.
    • tour a journey made for pleasure during which several different places are visited:
      • a tour of Bavaria
    • expedition an organized journey with a particular purpose, especially to find out about a place that is not well known:
      • the first expedition to the South Pole
    • excursion a short trip made for pleasure, especially one that has been organized for a group of people:
      • We went on an all-day excursion to the island.
    • outing a short trip made for pleasure or education, usually with a group of people and lasting no more than a day:
      • The children were on a day’s outing from school.
    • day out a trip to somewhere for a day, especially for pleasure:
      • We had a day out at the beach.
    Patterns
    • a(n) foreign/​overseas trip/​journey/​tour/​expedition
    • a bus/​coach/​train/​rail trip/​journey/​tour
    • to go on a(n) trip/​journey/​tour/​expedition/​excursion/​outing/​day out
    • to set out/​off on a(n) trip/​journey/​tour/​expedition/​excursion
    • to make a(n) trip/​journey/​tour/​expedition/​excursion
    Wordfinder
    • commute
    • departure
    • destination
    • excursion
    • expedition
    • itinerary
    • journey
    • pilgrimage
    • safari
    • travel
    Extra Examples
    • measures to cut the number of car journeys into the city
    • He is planning a journey through Europe this summer.
    • Slaves were crammed onto ships for the dangerous journey across the Atlantic.
    • Dawn was breaking as we set out on the last leg of our journey.
    • Few people have made this journey and lived to tell the tale.
    • He made the emotional journey back to the house he grew up in.
    • He wrote a column chronicling his journeys around the Americas.
    • Her search took her on an incredible journey across the world.
    • The bus driver told us where to change buses for our onward journey.
    • The bus journey from London to Athens took 60 hours.
    • The journey continued in silence.
    • The journey takes about five hours.
    • They continued their journey on foot.
    • They doubted that he would survive the journey to the nearest hospital.
    • They were on a journey to the Far East.
    • This is the story of the first astronauts and their journey into the unknown.
    Topics Holidaysa1
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective
    • long
    • marathon
    • short
    verb + journey
    • go on
    • have
    • make
    journey + verb
    • take (somebody)
    • begin
    • end
    journey + noun
    • time
    preposition
    • on journey
    • journey by
    • journey of
    phrases
    • be tired after a journey
    • be tired from a journey
    • a leg of a journey
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  2.  
    a long and often difficult process of personal change and development
    • I was excited by the character's journey in the film.
    • journey (from something) (to something) The book describes a spiritual journey from despair to happiness.
  3. Word OriginMiddle English: from Old French jornee ‘day, a day's travel, a day's work’ (the earliest senses in English), based on Latin diurnum ‘daily portion’, from diurnus ‘daily’, from dies ‘day’.

journey

verb
/ˈdʒɜːni/
/ˈdʒɜːrni/
[intransitive] (formal or literary)
Verb Forms
present simple I / you / we / they journey
/ˈdʒɜːni/
/ˈdʒɜːrni/
he / she / it journeys
/ˈdʒɜːniz/
/ˈdʒɜːrniz/
past simple journeyed
/ˈdʒɜːnid/
/ˈdʒɜːrnid/
past participle journeyed
/ˈdʒɜːnid/
/ˈdʒɜːrnid/
-ing form journeying
/ˈdʒɜːniɪŋ/
/ˈdʒɜːrniɪŋ/
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  1. (+ adv./prep.) to travel, especially a long distance
    • They journeyed for seven long months.
    Extra Examples
    • Human beings have long desired to journey into space.
    • In 1834 they journeyed south, staying in Rome and Naples.
    • It's a chance to journey through one of America's last wildernesses.
    Word OriginMiddle English: from Old French jornee ‘day, a day's travel, a day's work’ (the earliest senses in English), based on Latin diurnum ‘daily portion’, from diurnus ‘daily’, from dies ‘day’.
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