travel
verbVerb Forms
Idioms | present simple I / you / we / they travel | |
| he / she / it travels | |
| past simple travelled | |
| past participle travelled | |
| (US English) past simple traveled | |
| (US English) past participle traveled | |
| -ing form travelling | |
| (US English) -ing form traveling |
- [intransitive, transitive]
to go from one place to another, especially over a long distance 长途行走；旅行；游历 I go to bed early if I'm travelling the next day. 如果第二天要去旅行我就早睡。 - + adv./prep.
to travel around the world 周游世界 I love travelling by train. 我喜欢乘火车旅行。 We always travel first class. 我们总坐头等舱旅行。 I travel abroad a lot. 我经常出国旅行。 They travelled on the bus to and from work together. 他们一起乘公共汽车上下班。 We travelled to California for the wedding. 我们到加利福尼亚去参加婚礼。 They enjoy travelling to other European countries. 他们喜欢去其他欧洲国家旅行。 My client travels extensively on business. 我的客户经常出差。 When I finished college I went travelling for six months (= spent time visiting different places). 我大学毕业后在外旅行了六个月。 - travel something
As a journalist, she has travelled the world. 作为一名记者，她周游了世界。 He travelled the length of the Nile in a canoe. 他乘独木舟游完尼罗河的全程。 I travel 40 miles to work every day. 我每天奔波 40 英里去上班。 They travelled huge distances in search of food. 他们长途跋涉寻找食物。 Many residents must travel long distances to a grocery store. 许多居民必须长途跋涉去杂货店。
Extra ExamplesHe travels back and forth across the Atlantic. 他穿梭于大西洋两岸。 He travels with a huge entourage. 他旅行时有大批随行人员陪同。 I prefer travelling independently to going on a package holiday. 我不喜欢旅行社安排一切的一揽子旅游，更愿意自助旅游。 She travels widely in her job. 她的工作使她去过很多地方。 The dissidents were unable to hold meetings or travel freely. 持不同政见者不能随意集会或旅行。 The job gives her the opportunity to travel abroad. 这份工作给她提供了出国旅行的机会。 We decided to travel by car. 我们决定开车去。 We had to travel separately as we couldn't get seats on the same flight. 我们没买到同一次航班的票，因此只能分开走。 We plan to travel through Thailand and into Cambodia. 我们计划穿过泰国进入柬埔寨。 business people who travel regularly to the US 定期去往美国的商人 information for the backpacker who wants to travel farther afield 为要去更远的地方旅行的背包客提供的信息 Children under five travel free. 五岁以下儿童免费乘坐。 I spent a year travelling around Africa. 我花了一年时间周游非洲。 More people travel by air than ever before. 乘飞机旅行的人比以往任何时候都多。 We travelled the length and breadth of the country. 我们游遍了全国。 We've travelled a long way in the past few days. 在过去的几天里，我们走了很长的路。 Hundreds of hospital patients may have to travel long distances for treatment. 成百上千的医院病人为了治病可能被逼舟车劳顿。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- fast
- quickly
- slowly
- …
- across
- along
- around
- …
- freedom to travel
- go travelling/traveling
- travel all over the world
- …
- [intransitive] + adv./prep.
to go or move at a particular speed, in a particular direction, or a particular distance （以某速度、朝某方向或在某距离内）行进，转送，传播 to travel at 50 miles an hour 以每小时 50 英里的速度行进 Messages travel along the spine from the nerve endings to the brain. 信息从神经末梢沿脊柱传送到大脑。 News travels fast these days. 如今消息传播得很快。 He never travelled far from the home he shared with his mother. 他从未离开与母亲同住的家。 The wide streets allow cars to travel at high speeds. 宽阔的街道允许汽车高速行驶。
Extra ExamplesIn the film, he travels back in time to the '50s. 在影片中，他穿越时间回到了 50 年代。 Is it possible for anything to travel faster than the speed of light? 有没有可能有什么东西的速度比光速还快？ They seem to be travelling north. 他们似乎在向北旅行。 The truck was travelling at 90 mph when it veered off the road. 那辆卡车拐下道路时正以90英里的时速行进。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- fast
- quickly
- slowly
- …
- across
- along
- around
- …
- freedom to travel
- go travelling/traveling
- travel all over the world
- …
- [intransitive]
(of food, wine, an object, etc. 食物、葡萄酒、物体等 to be still in good condition after a long journey 经长途运输仍不变质；经得住长途运输 - [intransitive] (+ adv./prep.)
(of a book, an idea, etc. 书籍、思想等 to be equally successful in another place and not just where it began 盛行各地；广为流传 - [intransitive]
to go fast 走得快；快速行进 - [intransitive]
(in basketball 篮球 to take more than three steps while you are holding the ball, without bouncing it on the ground, which is against the rules of the game 持球走；（带球）走步 More Like This Consonant-doubling verbsConsonant-doubling verbs
Word OriginMiddle English: a variant of travail, and originally in the same sense.
Idioms
travel light
to take very little with you when you go on a trip 轻装上路 She travels light, choosing to use as little equipment as possible. 她轻装旅行，尽量少带行装。