excursion

名词 n. 动词 v.
/ɪkˈskɜː.ʃən/    /ɛkˈskɝ.ʒən/|/ekˈskɜː.ʃən/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A brief recreational trip; a journey out of the usual way.
    — While driving home I took an excursion and saw some deer.
  2. A field trip. Australia
  3. A wandering from the main subject: a digression.
    — Now all his ponderings, however excursive, wheeled round Isabel as their center; and back to her they came again from every excursion; and again derived some new, small germs for wonderment.
  4. An occurrence where an aircraft runs off the end or side of a runway or taxiway, usually during takeoff, landing, or taxi.
  5. A deviation in pitch, for example in the syllables of enthusiastic speech.
  6. Temporary deviation from a regular course or pattern
    — After an unsuccessful excursion into banking, I've returned to public life.
动词 v.
  1. To go on a recreational trip or excursion. intransitive
    — 1825, Charles Lamb, Letter to Mr. Wordsworth, 6 April, 1825, in The Works of Charles Lamb, Volume I, New York: Harper & Brothers, 1851, p. 249, https://books.google.ca/books?id=ypdNAQAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false Yesterday I excursioned twenty miles; to-day I write a few letters.

词形变化

excursions plural excursions present,singular,third-person excursioning participle,present excursioned participle,past excursioned past

词源

词源 1
Borrowed from Latin excursiō (“a running out, an inroad, invasion, a setting out, beginning of a speech”), from excurrere (“to run out”), from ex (“out”) + currere (“to run”). By surface analysis, excurse + -ion. Compare excursus.
词源 2
Borrowed from Latin excursiō (“a running out, an inroad, invasion, a setting out, beginning of a speech”), from excurrere (“to run out”), from ex (“out”) + currere (“to run”). By surface analysis, excurse + -ion. Compare excursus.
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