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单词 voyage
释义 voy·age
I. \ˈvȯi(.i)j, ˈvȯiēj, ˈvȯ(i)yij, -yēj\ noun
(-s)
Etymology: Middle English veyage, vayage, voyage, from Old French veiage, vayage, voiage, from Late Latin viaticum, from Latin, traveling money, provisions for a journey, from neuter of viaticus of a journey, from viatus (past participle of viare to travel, from via way) + -icus -ic — more at via
1.
 a. : an act or instance of traveling : excursion, tour
  < the glee club … Christmas trip, a voyage taken annually to advertise the institution — Scribner's >
  < spent the last fortnight in voyages through furniture shops — H.J.Laski >
 b. : something that resembles a trip
  < a couple from London, bound … on the voyage of matrimony — Tobias Smollett >
2. obsolete
 a. : a military expedition
  < the Simeonites' second voyage against the Amalekites — Thomas Fuller >
 b. : a private venture
  < if he should intend this voyage toward my wife, I would turn her loose to him — Shakespeare >
3.
 a. : a journey by water : cruise
  < with a fair sea voyage, and a fair land journey — Charles Dickens >
  < icebergs … breaking loose for their long voyage to obliteration — Valter Schytt >
 b. : a journey through air or space
  < the first human balloon voyage — Charles Dimont >
  < the earth in its annual voyage round the sun — R.S.Ball >
  < a rocket voyage to the moon >
4. : an account of a journey and especially of an exploratory trip by sea
 < Canto XXVI, the voyage of Ulysses — T.S.Eliot >
5.
 a. : an expedition undertaken for the collection at sea of a commercial cargo for disposal usually on return to the home port
  < a whaling voyage >
 b.
  (1) : the proceeds of such a nautical enterprise
   < share a voyage >
  (2) : a crew member's share of such proceeds
   < said … he was willing to bet his whole voyage that the ship had overrun her reckoning — H.A.Chippendale >
II. verb
(-ed/-ing/-s)
intransitive verb
: to take a trip : travel
 < voyage up the seaway aboard the royal yacht — Newsweek >
 < novelists have voyaged in imagination from planet to planet in rockets — Waldemar Kaempffert >
transitive verb
: sail, traverse
 < voyage the briny deep >
 < in a year, Americans voyaged 18,059,000,000 scheduled air-passenger-miles — Time >
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