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 長途行走；旅行；遊歷 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 周遊世界 I love travelling by train. 我喜歡乘火車旅行。 We always travel first class. 我們總坐頭等艙旅行。 I travel abroad a lot. 我經常出國旅行。 They travelled on the bus to and from work together. 他們一起乘公共汽車上下班。 We travelled to California for the wedding. 我們到加利福尼亞去參加婚禮。 They enjoy travelling to other European countries. 他們喜歡去其他歐洲國家旅行。 My client travels extensively on business. 我的客戶經常出差。 When I finished college I went travelling for six months (= spent time visiting different places). 我大學畢業後在外旅行了六個月。 - travel something
As a journalist, she has travelled the world. 作爲一名記者，她周遊了世界。 He travelled the length of the Nile in a canoe. 他乘獨木舟遊完尼羅河的全程。 I travel 40 miles to work every day. 我每天奔波 40 英裏去上班。 They travelled huge distances in search of food. 他們長途跋涉尋找食物。 Many residents must travel long distances to a grocery store. 許多居民必須長途跋涉去雜貨店。
Extra ExamplesHe travels back and forth across the Atlantic. 他穿梭於大西洋兩岸。 He travels with a huge entourage. 他旅行時有大批随行人員陪同。 I prefer travelling independently to going on a package holiday. 我不喜歡旅行社安排一切的一攬子旅遊，更願意自助旅遊。 She travels widely in her job. 她的工作使她去過很多地方。 The dissidents were unable to hold meetings or travel freely. 持不同政見者不能随意集會或旅行。 The job gives her the opportunity to travel abroad. 這份工作給她提供了出國旅行的機會。 We decided to travel by car. 我們決定開車去。 We had to travel separately as we couldn't get seats on the same flight. 我們沒買到同一次航班的票，因此只能分開走。 We plan to travel through Thailand and into Cambodia. 我們計劃穿過泰國進入柬埔寨。 business people who travel regularly to the US 定期去往美國的商人 information for the backpacker who wants to travel farther afield 爲要去更遠的地方旅行的背包客提供的信息 Children under five travel free. 五歲以下兒童免費乘坐。 I spent a year travelling around Africa. 我花了一年時間周遊非洲。 More people travel by air than ever before. 乘飛機旅行的人比以往任何時候都多。 We travelled the length and breadth of the country. 我們遊遍了全國。 We've travelled a long way in the past few days. 在過去的幾天裏，我們走了很長的路。 Hundreds of hospital patients may have to travel long distances for treatment. 成百上千的醫院病人爲了治病可能被逼舟車勞頓。
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、朝某方向或在某距離内）行進，轉送，傳播 to travel at 50 miles an hour 以每小時 50 英裏的速度行進 Messages travel along the spine from the nerve endings to the brain. 信息從神經末梢沿脊柱傳送到大腦。 News travels fast these days. 如今消息傳播得很快。 He never travelled far from the home he shared with his mother. 他從未離開與母親同住的家。 The wide streets allow cars to travel at high speeds. 寬闊的街道允許汽車高速行駛。
Extra ExamplesIn the film, he travels back in time to the '50s. 在影片中，他穿越時間回到了 50 年代。 Is it possible for anything to travel faster than the speed of light? 有沒有可能有什麽東西的速度比光速還快？ They seem to be travelling north. 他們似乎在向北旅行。 The truck was travelling at 90 mph when it veered off the road. 那輛卡車拐下道路時正以90英裏的時速行進。
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、物體等 to be still in good condition after a long journey 經長途運輸仍不變質；經得住長途運輸 - [intransitive] (+ adv./prep.)
(of a book, an idea, etc. 書籍、思想等 to be equally successful in another place and not just where it began 盛行各地；廣爲流傳 - [intransitive]
to go fast 走得快；快速行進 - [intransitive]
(in basketball 籃球 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；（帶球）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 輕裝上路 She travels light, choosing to use as little equipment as possible. 她輕裝旅行，盡量少帶行裝。