expedition

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /ɛkspəˈdɪʃən/    美 /ɛkspəˈdɪʃən/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A military journey; an enterprise against some enemy or into enemy territory. countable,uncountable
    — Once established in their capital at Nanking, occupied March, 1853, and renamed “Heavenly Capital” (T’ien-ching), the Taipings sent out an expedition to take Peking which again made striking gains initially, but was eventually slowed, isolated, and defeated.
  2. An important or long journey, for example a march or a voyage. countable,uncountable
  3. A trip, especially a long one, made by a person or a group of people for a specific purpose. countable,uncountable
    — a naval expedition
  4. The group of people making such excursion. collective,countable,uncountable
  5. The process or activities of performing expediter tasks. countable,uncountable
  6. The quality of being expedite; speed, quickness. archaic,countable,uncountable
    — one of them began to come nearer our boat than at first I expected; but I lay ready for him, for I had loaded my gun with all possible expedition […].
  7. The act of expediting something; prompt execution. countable,obsolete,uncountable
    — My Lord the great Commander of the worlde, […] Hath now in armes ten thouſand Ianiſaries, […] And for the expedition of this war, If he thinke good, can from his garriſons, UUithdraw as many more to follow him.
动词 v.
  1. To take part in a trip or expedition; to travel. intransitive
    — The attendance was given color by the ISO women who graced some of the sessions, attended the social events and expeditioned around the famous spots in Washington and its periphery area.

词形变化

expeditions plural expeditions present,singular,third-person expeditioning participle,present expeditioned participle,past expeditioned past

词汇关系

衍生词
DX-pedition DXpedition expeditionary expeditionist fishing expedition sexpedition
相关词
excursion exploration field trip

词源

词源 1
From Middle French expédition, and its source, Latin expeditio.
词源 2
From Middle French expédition, and its source, Latin expeditio.
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