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A jaunt is a short trip you take for pleasure, not for work. You might jaunt into town for the afternoon, or take a weekend jaunt to the sea. The word feels light and a little old-fashioned — more like a story than a bus . Though actually, it is not a long journey and not a serious one; moving house or going to hospital is not a jaunt. As a verb it is the same idea: to go off on that little fun trip. Where the word first came from, even scholars are not sure.
短途出遊；小旅行
組成Origin uncertain. Perhaps a palatalised alteration of daunt (“to discourage”). Compare Scots jaunder (“to ramble”) and dialectal Swedish ganta (“to romp, jest”); perhaps akin to English jump. Compare jaunce. Modern usage was likely influenced by jaunty.
原始詞典資料6 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。
jauntnoun/ˈd͡ʒɔːnt/
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archaicA wearisome journey.
- Our Savior, meek, and with untroubled mind After his aëry jaunt, though hurried sore. Hungry and cold, betook him to his rest.
- Fie, what a jaunt have I had.
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A short excursion for pleasure or refreshment; a ramble; a short journey.
- Some days later it happened that young Heriotside was stepping home over the Lang Muir about ten at night, it being his first jaunt from home since his arm had mended.
jauntverb/ˈd͡ʒɔːnt/
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To ramble here and there; to stroll; to make an excursion.
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To ride on a jaunting car.
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obsoleteTo jolt; to jounce.
- To get into a Grecian car, and to be drawn, with Minerva at his back[…]four or five miles through the streets of London‥after having quietly suffered himself to be jaunted about in this manner
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obsoleteTo tire a horse by riding it hard or back and forth.
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。