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A peregrination is a long journey, especially one that takes you far from home and often lasts a long time. In older writing it often meant a pilgrimage — a trip to a holy place — and writers also used it, a little poetically, for a person's journey through life. Today it is a formal, slightly word. You will meet it in novels and essays more than in speech; in the street people say trip, journey, or travels. When someone does use it, they often mean wandering from place to place, not a straight trip from A to B. Though actually, it never had to be religious: the older idea was simply travelling in a foreign land.
長途遊歷、遠行（書面、偏文學；不一定是朝聖）
組成From Late Middle English, from Anglo-Norman and Old French, from Latin peregrinatio: a stay or trip overseas, later also a pilgrimage, and figuratively a person's journey through life. That Latin noun comes from peregrinatus (having lived or travelled overseas) plus a noun ending. Peregrinus meant a person from abroad.
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。
peregrinationnoun/ˌpɛɹɪɡɹɪˈneɪʃn̩/
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archaiclifestylereligiontheologyA person's life regarded as a temporary stay on earth and a journey to the afterlife.
- It is true our life in this vvorld is not called a baniſhment any vvhere in the Scripture: but a pilgrimage, a peregrination, a travell; but perigrinatio cum ignominia conjunctu, exilium; he that leaves his Countrey becauſe he vvas aſhamed, or afraid to return to it, or to ſtay in it, is a baniſhed man.
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archaicA journey made by a pilgrim; a pilgrimage; also (uncountable) the making of pilgrimages.
- According to the mode of that time, he [Cnut the Great] made a pilgrimage to Rome, with a view to expiate the crimes, which paved his way to the throne; but he made a good use of this peregrination, and returned full of the observations he had made in the country, through which he had passed, which he turned to the benefit of his extensive dominions.
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A journey or trip, especially by foot; also (uncountable) journeying, travelling.
- By what I have touch’d in the Chapter of the Elms, concerning the peregrination of that Tree into Spain (where even in Plinie’s time there were none, and where now they are in great abundance) why ſhould we not more generally endeavour to propagate the Ilex amongſt us; […]
- [O]ur linguist having received such extraordinary rudiments towards a good education, was afterwards trained up in every thing that becomes a gentleman; wearing off by little and little all the vicious habits and practices that he had been used to in the course of his peregrinations.
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Broad or systematic discussion of a subject; (countable) an instance of this; a discourse.
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Straying from the main subject in speech or writing; digression; (countable) an instance of this.
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obsoleteThe state of living abroad temporarily; sojourning; (countable) an act of doing this; a sojourn.
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。