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A person who goes somewhere for a short visit and comes back the same day — usually for fun. It is British English, and it almost always comes as "day tripper": someone who takes a bus or train to the beach or a famous town in the morning and is home by night. Notice the small feeling in it: local people often say it with a light complaint. Trippers fill the streets, buy an ice cream, take photos, and leave no money in the hotels — so "the town is full of trippers" can sound a little tired or . It is not a rude word, but it is not a compliment either. Americans mostly do not use it this way; they would say "day-trippers" or just "visitors". There is a second, much more use, from the drug meaning of "trip": a tripper is someone taking . That use is old-fashioned now, mostly 1960s-70s, but you may meet it in songs and books.
一日遊的遊客、當天來回的旅客(英式用法,語氣常帶點嫌吵嫌擠的意味)
原始詞典資料5 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。
trippernoun/ˈtɹɪpə/
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One who trips or stumbles.
- Most trippers and fallers I know fall forward, but it could have happened. He could have gone out for a midnight walk, he could have wanted to commune with the moon from the middle of the log, he could have tripped and fallen backward […]
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A person experiencing a hallucinogenic trip.
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Gonorrhea.
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A tourist.
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historicalSynonym of tripman.
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。