voyage

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voy·age1 /ˈvɔɪ-ɪdʒ/ noun [countableC]

1 TTWTRAVELa long journey in a ship or spacecraft 〔乘船或宇宙飞船的长途〕航行

The voyage from England to India used to take six months.

过去从英格兰到印度要航行六个月。

the Titanic’s maiden voyage (=first journey)

“泰坦尼克”号的首航

I don’t want to make the voyage single-handed.

我不想独自航行。

These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise.

这些就是“企业”号星舰几次航行的经历。

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2 voyage of discovery a situation in which you learn a lot of new things about something or someone 〔对某事或某人有大量新发现的〕发现之旅

Writing a biography is an absorbing voyage of discovery.

撰写传记是极为有趣的发现之旅。

a voyage of self-discovery (=when you learn more about yourself)

自我发现之旅

Examples from the Corpus

voyage of discovery• Your mission, therefore, is much more than a voyage of discovery.• As the reader has seen, my six years of service was a voyage of discovery.• Beside, we had come to get some-thing to eat, and not to make any voyage of discovery.• Captain James Cook, whose parents were local farmworkers, set out on his celebrated voyages of discovery from this estuary.• Marcel Proust once described voyages of discovery as seeking new landscapes and gaining new eyes.• Each expedition is a new adventure, a new voyage of discovery.• Between 1768 and 1779, his own voyages of discovery filled in vast empty areas on the maps of his time.• In fact much of the Ancient Mariner came from the sea voyages of discovery.

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voyage• After a voyage of investigation in 1584 a colony that was intended to be permanent was launched in 1585.• During the brief voyage Tom lived in a peculiar atmosphere of doom and of heroic, unselfish courage.• Captain James Cook, whose parents were local farmworkers, set out on his celebrated voyages of discovery from this estuary.• For the first time during the entire voyage, he failed to respond instantly to a request.• We are on the way, but on a rather longer voyage than we knew.• In fact much of the Ancient Mariner came from the sea voyages of discovery.• In those days, the voyage to Australia was long and dangerous.• Jaq had spent the remainder of the voyage feeling exalted, yet pitiful.

maiden voyage• Read in studio A rather unusual hot air balloon has completed its maiden voyage.• As Dole and Kemp headed across the country, the team of surrogates was making its maiden voyage in California.• Fifty-two years before I met him, Lawrence Beesley had been a second-class passenger on the maiden voyage of the Titanic.

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