- 1公費旅遊、招待旅遊（貶義：公家或公司出錢，其實在玩的行程）
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. 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. You meet it most in news stories and in angry talk about politicians. American English has used it this way for a long time. 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.
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，摘錄並精簡格式，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/
- 1
obsoleteA basket.
- 2
A type of cream cheese, originally made in a rush basket; later, a food made of sweetened curds.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.
- 3
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 […].
- 4
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—
- 5
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.
- 6
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/
- 1
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.
- 2
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.
- 3
To regale or entertain with a feast.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
- press junket
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