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Togethering means going on holiday as one big group — not just you and your partner, but , aunts, cousins, or a whole circle of friends, all travelling and staying together. It is a fairly new word, made by treating together as if it were a verb, and it belongs to travel writing, hotel advertising, and newspaper lifestyle pages rather than to normal speech. Most English speakers have never used it, and some have never met it, so if you say it in conversation you may need to explain. When it does appear it usually sounds slightly commercial — a resort selling large rooms, an airline selling group bookings. If you simply want to say the ordinary thing, English speakers say a family holiday, a group trip, or a family reunion. Keep togethering for when you are reading about the travel industry, or when you want the specific idea of the multi-generation holiday as a trend.
三代同遊、揪團旅行(一大家子或一群朋友一起出遊的度假方式);英文裡是旅遊業的新造詞,日常對話少用。
組成together + -ing. The -ing ending normally turns a verb into the name of an activity — swimming, shopping — so this word treats together as though you could "together" as an action. That playfulness is why it still feels invented rather than settled.
同家族的字
- togetherthe whole first part; the new word is just this one plus an activity ending
- togethernessthe same base with -ness instead: that one names the feeling, this one names the holiday
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。
togetheringnoun
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lifestyletourismtransportThe practice of arranging joint travel or vacations, as a group.
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。