journey
US: /ˈdʒɝni/
UK: /dʒˈɜːni/
UK: /dʒˈɜːni/
English Vietnamese dictionary
journey /'dʤə:ni/
- danh từ
- cuộc hành trình (thường là bằng đường bộ)
- chặng đường đi, quâng đường đi (trong một thời gian nhất định)
- to go by easy journeys: đi từng chặng đường ngắn
- a three day's journey: chặng đường đi mất ba ngày; cuộc hành trình ba ngày
- nội động từ
- làm một cuộc hành trình
Advanced English dictionary
noun, verb
+ noun
an act of travelling from one place to another, especially when they are far apart: They went on a long train journey across India. + Did you have a good journey? + We broke our journey (= stopped for a short time) in Madrid. + (especially BrE) Don't use the car for short journeys. + (especially BrE) It's a day's journey by car. + (especially BrE) I'm afraid you've had a wasted journey (= you cannot do what you have come to do). + (BrE, spoken) Bye! Safe journey! (= used when sb is beginning a journey) + (figurative) The book describes a spiritual journey from despair to happiness.
+ verb [V] [usually +adv./prep.] (formal or literary) to travel, especially a long distance: They journeyed for seven long months.
WHICH WORD?
journey / travel / trip
Nouns
Journey = an act of travelling from one place to another. In BrE it can be long, or short but regular: to go on a 6 000-mile journey + How long is your journey to work?
Trip = a journey to a place and back, especially for a short visit: to go on a trip to Disneyland + a business trip.
In AmE trip is used instead of journey for a short distance: The trip takes about 45 minutes.
Travel is an uncountable noun that means the general act of travelling: She loves travel. + The price includes air travel.
Travels [pl] means several journeys to other places or countries, especially far away.
Verbs
To travel puts emphasis on the journey itself: to travel abroad + I usually travel by air.
If you are thinking more about the place you are going to than the journey itself, use to go: I'm going to Italy on Friday. + Do you go to New York often? +
See also -
Thesaurus dictionary
n.
1 trip, voyage, excursion, tour, travel, outing, expedition, junket, cruise, jaunt, pilgrimage, peregrination, odyssey, trek:
Did your wife accompany you on your journey to Tierra del Fuego?
2 way, passage, passing, transit, transition, progress, course, way, trip, route, career:
On your journey through this life, Whatever be your goal, Keep your eye upon the doughnut, And not upon the hole.
v.
3 travel, tour, voyage, go (abroad or overseas), make or take a trip, make or wend one's way, make a pilgrimage, peregrinate, trek, rove, range, wander, roam, tour, cruise, gad (about), gallivant or galivant or galavant:
He journeyed to the far corners of the earth seeking an answer to life's mysteries.
Collocation dictionary
ADJ.
long, marathon | brief, short | outward | homeward, return | onward
The bus driver told us where to change buses for our onward journey.
| bus, car, rail, railway, train, etc. | five-mile, four-hour, etc. | comfortable, easy, good, pleasant, safe
I hope you had a good journey. Have a safe journey.
| arduous, awkward, bad, difficult, gruelling, hard, tedious, terrible, tiring, tortuous | dangerous, hazardous, perilous | overland | cross-country | daily | overnight | epic
an epic journey across Africa on foot
| wasted
The library was closed when I got there, so it was a wasted journey.
| emotional, sentimental, spiritual
He made the emotional journey back to the house he grew up in.
VERB + JOURNEY
go on, have, make
He wasn't there and we had a wasted journey.
| break
We broke our return journey in San Francisco.
| begin, set out on | continue, resume
They continued their journey on foot.
| complete
JOURNEY + VERB
take (sb)
The journey takes about five hours. His journey took him across central Asia.
| begin | end
JOURNEY + NOUN
time
PREP.
on ~
They were on a journey to the Far East.
| ~ by
a journey by air/bus/land/rail/sea, etc.
| ~ across, ~ between, ~ down
the journey down the Rhine
| ~ from, ~ of
a journey of 300 miles a journey of five days
| ~ through, ~ to
The bus journey from London to Athens took 60 hours.
| ~ up
PHRASES
be tired after/from a journey, a leg/stage of a journey
Dawn was breaking as we set out on the last leg of our journey.
Concise English dictionary
journeys|journeyed|journeying'dʒɜrnɪ /'dʒɜː-
noun
+the act of traveling from one place to another
verb
+undertake a journey or trip
+travel upon or across
