喜樂美語

核心畫面

You can picture it as hauling yourself and your load a long, hard way on foot — the kind of going where the distance is felt in your legs, not measured on a map.

靠自己的兩條腿，拖著身體和行李，走很長、很費力的一段路。重點不在距離幾公里，而在那個「拖」的感覺——走完會累、會喘、…更多收起靠自己的兩條腿，拖著身體和行李，走很長、很費力的一段路。重點不在距離幾公里，而在那個「拖」的感覺——走完會累、會喘、會覺得走了好久。這個字原本講的就是南非移民趕著牛車拉家當長途搬遷，所以它天生帶著「辛苦地把自己搬過去」的重量，跟輕鬆的 walk 完全不同。

From the word’s history

From Afrikaans/Dutch trekken 'to pull, draw, travel', made famous in English by the Boers' Great Trek — ox-wagon migrations across South Africa. The original sense is literally pulling/hauling, which is why the word still carries effort rather than mere distance.

這個字是從南非荷蘭語 trek 進英文的，源頭荷蘭文 trekken 本義是「拉、拖、遷移」。它會進英文，是因為十九世紀南非波耳人趕牛車舉家長途遷徙（Great Trek）——一群人拖著全部家當走過草原和山地。這個「拉」的本義解釋了為什麼今天 trek 聽起來永遠比 walk 累：字的骨子裡就有拖曳的力氣在。

Wiktionary (trek < Afrikaans trek < Dutch trekken 'to pull, draw, march'), reinforced in English usage by the Great Trek

Two branches

真的走很遠很辛苦的路

這一家就是核心畫面的字面版本：真實的長途、真實的累。

make a hard journey · verb · C1

To make a long and hard journey, especially on foot, for example a far walk or a climb up many stairs that makes you tired.

跋涉

覺得遠（但其實未必真的遠）

把「累」這個感覺從真實的長途借過來，用在其實不算遠的路上——距離是假的，抱怨是真的。

a tiring walk · noun · C1

A walk that feels long when you do it, even if the real distance is not very great.

一大段路

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。

treknoun/tɹɛk/

  • 1

    A journey by ox wagon.

  • 2

    The Boer migration of 1835–1837.

  • 3

    A slow or difficult journey.

    • We're planning a trek up Kilimanjaro.
    • Early the next morning I set off on the long and hazardous trek through jungles and hills into Assam, and regretfully said "good-bye" to the gallant little Burma Railways, which had functioned to the last and played a big part in evacuating many thousands of refugees and wounded soldiers in the path of the rapidly advancing Japanese.
  • 4

    A long walk.

    • I would drive to the shops from here; you can walk, but it's quite a trek.

trekverb/tɹɛk/

  • 1

    To make a slow or arduous journey.

    • Before that they had been a good deal on the move, trekking about after the white man, who was one of those rolling stones that keep going round after a soft job.
  • 2

    To journey on foot, especially to hike through mountainous areas.

  • 3

    To travel by ox wagon.

  • 4

    To travel by walking.

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。