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A hillwalker is a person who walks over hills for pleasure, not to get to work or catch a bus. You hear the word most in British English, especially in Scotland, Wales, and the north of England, where a long walk on high ground is a normal weekend hobby. A hillwalker wears boots, carries a pack, and follows paths; they are not, in the usual sense, climbing rock with ropes — that person is a or a mountaineer. Though actually the line is messy: some British “hills” are huge, and some hillwalkers go very high. The ending -er is the person. The activity itself is . Americans are more likely to say .
健行者(英式;指在丘陵健行的人,不是攀岩、登高峰的那種登山者)
組成hill(丘陵、小山)+ walker(走路的人)。
同家族的字
- hillthe first half: high ground, smaller than a mountain
- walkerthe second half: a person who walks
- walkwhat the walker is doing
- hillwalkingthe hobby this person does
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
hillwalkernoun
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A person who takes part in hillwalking.
- [I]n our cold Northern winters, out of doors, carried by hillwalkers, mountaineers or hunters, when it [chocolate] splinters in the hand, hard and brittle at those low temperatures, it is a valuable and harmless food.
- A Police Scotland spokesperson said: “We were made aware of concern for a group of three hillwalkers who had not returned from the Aonach Eagach ridge in Glen Coe shortly after 9.05pm on Saturday 5 August.
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。