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A junket is a trip that is supposed to be for work, but looks a lot like a holiday. A government office or a company pays for the travel, the hotel, and often the meals and the fun. The people who go may be officials, workers, or writers invited by a business.
A junket是 a trip that is supposed to be for work名義上是為了公事出的差, but looks a lot like a holiday但看起來很像度假。 A government office or a company pays for the travel, the hotel政府單位或公司出旅費、住宿費, and often the meals and the fun通常連吃的、玩的也一起出。 The people who go may be officials, workers, or writers invited by a business去的人可能是官員、員工，或被廠商邀請的作家。
The word is not kind. When someone calls a trip a junket, they are saying it is too expensive, and that people are enjoying themselves with other people’s money.
The word is not kind這個詞不是好話。 When someone calls a trip a junket當有人說某趟行程是junket, they are saying it is too expensive他們是在說這太浪費錢了, and that people are enjoying themselves with other people’s money而且大家是在花別人的錢玩樂。
You meet it most in news stories and in angry talk about politicians. American English has used it this way for a long time.
You meet it most in news stories and in angry talk about politicians你最常在新聞報導，或大家在氣憤地談政治人物時看到這個詞。 American English has used it this way for a long time美式英語這樣用已經很久了。
Though actually, it is not the same word as junk (rubbish), and it is not “junk food.” Long ago junket could also mean a feast, and there is still an old milk pudding with the same name — but that is not the meaning here.
Though actually不過其實, it is not the same word as junk (rubbish)它跟junk（垃圾）不是同一個字, and it is not “junk food.”也不是「垃圾食物」。 Long ago很久以前 junket could also mean a feastjunket也可以指一場盛宴, and there is still an old milk pudding with the same name現在也還有一種同名的老式牛奶布丁 — but that is not the meaning here但那不是這裡要講的意思。
組成Does not split in modern English. From Middle English jonket, a basket made of rushes, from Medieval Latin iuncta, perhaps from Latin iuncus (rush, reed), and so perhaps a doublet of jonquil — that last link is only possible, not sure. The meaning moved to a feast or banquet by the 1520s, probably via the idea of a picnic basket; then to a pleasure trip (1814); then in American English by 1886 to a trip that claims to be business but is really for fun.
原始詞典資料10 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。
junketnoun/ˈd͡ʒʌŋkɪt/
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obsoleteA basket.
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A type of cream cheese, originally made in a rush basket; later, a food made of sweetened curds.
- I love your meads, and I love your flowers, / And I love your junkets mainly […].
- The Sunday ended in gloom, which even junket for supper in the blue Dresden bowl could hardly lighten at all.
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obsoleteA delicacy.
- […] though bride and bridegroom wants For to supply the places at the table, You know there wants no junkets at the feast.
- Goe streight, and take with thee to witnesse it / Sixe of thy fellowes of the best array, / And beare with you both wine and juncates fit, / And bid him eate […].
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A feast or banquet.
- Conversation is the natural Junket of the Mind ; and most Men have an Appetite to it, once in the day at least […].
- We're often in waiting / At junket or feting, / And sometimes attend an interment—
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A pleasure trip; a journey made for feasting or enjoyment, now especially a trip made ostensibly for business but which entails merrymaking or entertainment.
- It did strike him as odd, perhaps, that merchants did not dare to go on a junket or plan a congenial dinner without pretending to themselves that it had some business significance.
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gamblinggamesA gaming room for which the capacity and limits change daily, often rented out to private vendors who run tour groups through them and give a portion of the proceeds to the main casino.
junketverb/ˈd͡ʒʌŋkɪt/
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datedTo attend a junket; to feast.
- Be careful that you wast not, or spoil your Ladies, or Mistresses goods, neither sit you up junketing a nights, after your Master and Mistress be abed.
- 1688, Robert South, Sermon preached on 8 April, 1688, in Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions. The Second Volume, London: Thomas Bennet, p. 414, Iob’s Children junketted and feasted together often, but the Reckoning cost them dear at last.
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To go on a junket; to travel.
- Together they made trips to town or junketed over the country in search of furniture and dishes of which Miss Sally had heard.
- It is only by much junketing about that one comes to the full realization of what men and women in the main are doing in this country. One learns as he passes from town to town, through cities and across plains, that the general reason for industry everywhere is to get the means to build and support a home.
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To regale or entertain with a feast.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
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。