核心畫面

Picture a ship leaving harbour and staying at sea for weeks — not a trip to the next town, but a long crossing where you are away from land for a long stretch and the destination is far off. That same picture stretches upward to a spacecraft crossing to another planet. The word carries distance, duration, and a sense of setting out.

可以想成一艘船離開港口、接下來好幾個星期都在海上:不是搭車到隔壁鎮那種移動,而是長時間看不到陸地、目的地遠在天邊的橫更多收起可以想成一艘船離開港口、接下來好幾個星期都在海上:不是搭車到隔壁鎮那種移動,而是長時間看不到陸地、目的地遠在天邊的橫渡。同一個畫面往上延伸,就成了太空船飛向另一顆星球。這個字帶著「距離很長、時間很久、而且是鄭重出發」的味道,所以它很少用在日常通勤上。

原始詞典資料4 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。

voyagenoun/ˈvɔɪ.ɪd͡ʒ/

  • 1

    A long journey, especially by ship.

    • He went on a voyage to France.
    • There is a Tide in the affayres of men, / Which taken at the Flood, leades on to Fortune: / Omitted, all the voyage of their life, / Is bound in Shallowes, and in Miſeries.
  • 2

    archaicA written account of a journey or travel.

    • I cannot learn what his Name was, unleſs by the Inſcription of the Letters he ſent to the Pope, and to the French King in the Year 1688, mentioned in the ſecond Voyage of Father Tachard […]
    • By the various Relations, Embaſſies and Voyages of Siam that have been publiſht within theſe laſt Four Years […]
  • 3

    obsoleteThe act or practice of travelling.

    • [...] [A]ll Nations haue Enterknowledge one of another, either by Voyage into Forreine Parts, or by Strangers that come to them: [...]

voyageverb/ˈvɔɪ.ɪd͡ʒ/

  • 1

    To go on a long journey.

    • A mind forever voyaging through strange seas of thought alone.
    • O soul, voyagest thou indeed on voyages like those? / Disportest thou on waters such as those?

資料來源:英文維基詞典 English WiktionaryCC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。