excursion
远足
definition
noun
an excursion to Mount Etna
a short journey or trip, especially one engaged in as a leisure activity.
We were told that this railroad plans to hopefully run some excursions along that other track into Eustis by this summer.
an instance of the movement of something along a path or through an angle.
translation of 'excursion'
verb
遨
noun
短程旅行,
交游,
远足,
短途旅行
example
After a short 'excursion' into the field of metallurgy, he studied painting and etching at the Royal Academy in London and later at a private art school in Paris.
As with many first-time visitors to Mexico, the short 'excursion' stirs up more in the author than he can fully comprehend.
Diamond offers a fascinating 'excursion' into the latest scholarship on some of the great mysteries of history: Easter Island.
The audience was composed of cineastes, intellectuals and young men and women eager to view an explicit 'excursion' into the sexual realm by an esteemed woman film-maker who had worked with such masters as Fellini.
the firm's disastrous 'excursion' into the US electrical market
To understand the underlying basis of the Buteyko method and related methods (such as the Self-Healer) a short 'excursion' to the root of the problem may help.
The self-referencing vibrating probe oscillated along an 'excursion' of 10 m.
an 'excursion' into theology
That was a short 'excursion' , though, because the batteries ran out on me and by the time I'd come back in to replace them with newly-charged ones, the urge to get back to the shredding had returned, not to be resisted.
An initial negative carbon-isotope 'excursion' occurred during the earliest phases of relative sea-level rise in SW Britain.
They moan at the door now and again, asking for it to be opened so they can check the suitability of the weather for a short 'excursion' .
Instead of an 'excursion' into the countryside, we took a local walking tour of the city walls, the best preserved in Europe.
Interestingly, while the City is inundated, the famous Vedanthangal bird sanctuary, which is a short 'excursion' away, has received little water in the last couple of days.
an 'excursion' to Mount Etna
My exchange with Zwick has been an interesting 'excursion' into just how difficult pinning down historical facts in music can be.
Foreboding as this was, though, I decided to put my mind to rest and take a short 'excursion' down the next one of these roads that I found, for humor's sake if nothing else.
I think about that summer and how rock and roll changed my life. It took me down a different path, a different 'excursion' than I thought I would travel.
a gantry controlled the radial and tangential 'excursion' of each detector
From there the album takes a short 'excursion' into a more experimental direction that isn't quite as satisfying.
This, however, is a small criticism of a show which, apart from being one of this year's must-see exhibitions, offers a unique 'excursion' into the collective consciousness of a vanished world.
This was only a short 'excursion' into the forest to report to my brothers.
an 'excursion' to London Zoo
One of my favorite 'excursions' was a short drive from downtown at the Ballard Locks, which is absolutely free to visitors.
There are rainforest walks, 4WD 'excursions' , bird safaris and a pool - crucial, as stinger jellyfish mean you can't swim in the sea for half the year.
Within an hour of Train 19's arrival, 'excursionists' were headed for the old-time trolleys that serve the beautiful Garden District or toward the French Quarter 3 blocks away.
Bored with the monotony of her life, she takes her motor-less moped on short 'excursions' .
The pair chose to dwell mostly in a musical milieu which would have predated either of their births, with just a few 'excursions' into the present for their own compositions, which were primarily exercises in that same style.
The songs are, with a few mid-paced riffing 'excursions' along the way, deathly slow.
The first memorably charts his wife's descent into Alzheimer's, but all progress into meditations on bereavement with its consolations of memory and 'excursions' into the fantasies which have relieved his grief.
If he ever visited Sicily, the island of his agrarian fancies, he did so only as an 'excursionist' .
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