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单词 voyage
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Definition of voyage in English:

voyage

noun ˈvɔɪɪdʒˈvɔɪɪdʒ
  • A long journey involving travel by sea or in space.

    航海;航空;航行;旅行;航程

    his voyage to America
    figurative writing a biography is a voyage of discovery

    〈喻〉写传记是一个发现过程。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The problem is that the mundane nature of a long sea voyage is being shown to the audience.
    • Although the two ships crossed paths several times on the return voyage, they never made contact.
    • We began the return voyage sometime after breakfast.
    • The craft began its historic voyage on 16 July 1969, taking off on board a Saturn 5 booster rocket.
    • In 1863 she made her maiden voyage to China and Australia.
    • The Galileo unmanned spacecraft is about to conclude a 14-year voyage of exploration to Jupiter and its moons.
    • One of the features of Edinburgh that enchanted me on my voyage of discovery two years ago was the Book Festival in Charlotte Square Gardens.
    • Liu won fame as the first Chinese to complete a solo voyage around the world.
    • The island is much the same way as it was when James Cook sailed by on his way home from his voyage of discovery in 1770.
    • Titanic enthusiast Steve Rigby will embark on a voyage of discovery when he set sails on an expedition to see the wreck of the great ship this summer.
    • Long distance travel, voyages and journeys that take us to an unfamiliar environment.
    • Traveling by steamships, voyages lasted anywhere between seven days to a month.
    • Seven British warships and support vessels have set off on a voyage around the world to mark the new millennium.
    • The Human Genome Project is one of the great feats of exploration in history, an inward voyage of discovery rather than an outward exploration of Earth or the cosmos.
    • The programme will feature the intrepid Adam Nicolson on one leg of an epic voyage of discovery that took him six months to complete and that gives viewers a wholly different view of the world.
    • The ship set sail under Robert Falcon Scott on his famous voyage of discovery to the Antarctic.
    • Fritz Reiner himself had gone on a figurative voyage of discovery before realizing that this was music worth conducting and recording.
    • My recent boat trip down the Li River was like a voyage back in time.
    • She completed her maiden voyage in May after being officially named in Holland by Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands.
    • It made me realise that Manchester had a really great music scene, and it set me off on a voyage of discovery around some of Manchester's record shops.
    Synonyms
    journey, trip, expedition, excursion, tour, hike, trek, tramp, safari, pilgrimage, quest, crusade, odyssey
    crossing, cruise, sail, sailing, passage, flight, drive
    travels, globetrotting, journeying, wandering
    rare peregrination, itineration
verb ˈvɔɪɪdʒˈvɔɪɪdʒ
  • 1no object, with adverbial of direction Go on a voyage.

    he spent part of his life voyaging along the South African coast
    Example sentencesExamples
    • It was a central paradox of Arbus's strongest years, however, that the pursuit of the authentic did not necessarily voyage toward sanity.
    • Imagine that you are an intergalactic space traveller, voyaging through the ancient cosmos.
    • The Caledonian Canal was engineered to provide shipping with a sheltered alternative to voyaging around the stormy Scottish coast.
    • Their stories didn't stray far from home and hearth, while pulp stories frequently ventured from the Wild West to darkest Africa, or voyaged to the moon or Mars.
    • Here, plain to see, was a living, shining planet voyaging through space and shared by all of humanity, a precious vessel vulnerable to pollution and to the overuse of its limited capacities.
    • How does he feel, voyaging into the darker recesses of this kind of soul to write about the very thing that he fears most?
    • Throughout Iron Age times Hengistbury Head was an important port for ships crossing the English Channel or voyaging along the south coast.
    • We elected not to fly back to the UK - instead, we voyaged up the African coast and through the Suez Canal by Polish cargo ship.
    • Before their colonization by the Europeans and the U.S. in the 1800s, the Polynesians continued voyaging back and forth across the vast distances of the Pacific.
    • We sat hunched in the cramped cabin space like creatures packed and voyaging through the unknown.
    • The bridge was quiet as they voyaged on, Allison looking out the viewscreen as her sandy blonde hair fell into her eyes.
    • As they voyage through space, the crew have to contend with anti-gravity failures, annoying talking doors and wars with alien races.
    • Eventually the compass made its way to Europe and onto the ships Christopher Columbus used to voyage across the Atlantic.
    • Often the answer lies in travelling backwards, closer to his roots, as he did after voyaging in 1911 to India, where his mother had been born.
    • Navigating through the exhibit, which opens May 1, visitors will voyage through time and around the globe.
    • I thought about my parents, now in their early seventies, still hale but voyaging steadily into old age.
    • However much a skipper may gripe, maintenance is as much a part of boating as voyaging itself - and (if the truth be told) as enjoyable.
    • Blake, Sefton and crew then voyaged north to the Amazon and another 1,400 miles up the rain-forested Amazon and Negro rivers.
    • The story deals with a group of people, including a famous diva, Florencia Grimaldi, voyaging down the Amazon on the steamship El Dorado in the early 1900s.
    • OpenUniverse lets you voyage through a simulated solar system, another test of graphics performance.
    Synonyms
    journey, tour, take a trip, go on a trip, go on an expedition, go on an excursion, go sightseeing, globetrot, backpack
    1. 1.1archaic with object Sail over or along (a sea or river).
      〈古〉在(海)上航行,沿(河)船行
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The Queen Mary 2 is definitely a luxuriant vessel upon which to voyage the Atlantic ocean.
      Synonyms
      travel, journey, take a trip, go on a trip, go on an expedition, go on an excursion, tour, globetrot
      sail, steam, cruise, fly, drive
      informal gallivant, do, knock about/around
      rare peregrinate, itinerate

Derivatives

  • voyageable

  • adjective ˈvɔɪɪdʒəb(ə)lˈvɔɪɪdʒəb(ə)l
    archaic
    • (of a waterway or sea) able to be sailed on by ships or boats.

      the voyageable straits
  • voyager

  • noun ˈvɔɪɪdʒəˈvɔɪ(ɪ)dʒər
    • After some delays and disputes, the voyagers regrouped at Plymouth aboard the 180-ton Mayflower.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Visitors can learn about the volcanic birth of the Hawaiian Islands and the adventures of the early Polynesian voyagers, European explorers and whalers.
      • The adventurer and businessman was one of 705 people who survived the disaster in 1912, after the Titanic hit an iceberg and sank, killing 1,500 voyagers.
      • Madeira lies right in the track of the trade winds, and down the centuries the island has played host to voyagers passing between the Old and New Worlds.
      • When I was a student at Parsons in the late 70's this map kept me company every day as I became an eager voyager through the city's tunnels.

Origin

Middle English (as a noun denoting a journey): from Old French voiage, from Latin viaticum 'provisions for a journey' (in late Latin 'journey').

  • Voyage was first used for a journey by sea or by land. It is from Old French voiage, from Latin viaticum initially meaning ‘provisions for a journey’ and, in late Latin, ‘journey’.

Rhymes

buoyage

Definition of voyage in US English:

voyage

nounˈvoiijˈvɔɪɪdʒ
  • A long journey involving travel by sea or in space.

    航海;航空;航行;旅行;航程

    figurative writing a biography is a voyage of discovery

    〈喻〉写传记是一个发现过程。

    a six-year voyage to Jupiter

    前往木星的六年航程。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • One of the features of Edinburgh that enchanted me on my voyage of discovery two years ago was the Book Festival in Charlotte Square Gardens.
    • The problem is that the mundane nature of a long sea voyage is being shown to the audience.
    • The island is much the same way as it was when James Cook sailed by on his way home from his voyage of discovery in 1770.
    • We began the return voyage sometime after breakfast.
    • Seven British warships and support vessels have set off on a voyage around the world to mark the new millennium.
    • The craft began its historic voyage on 16 July 1969, taking off on board a Saturn 5 booster rocket.
    • Titanic enthusiast Steve Rigby will embark on a voyage of discovery when he set sails on an expedition to see the wreck of the great ship this summer.
    • The Human Genome Project is one of the great feats of exploration in history, an inward voyage of discovery rather than an outward exploration of Earth or the cosmos.
    • She completed her maiden voyage in May after being officially named in Holland by Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands.
    • Long distance travel, voyages and journeys that take us to an unfamiliar environment.
    • Liu won fame as the first Chinese to complete a solo voyage around the world.
    • Traveling by steamships, voyages lasted anywhere between seven days to a month.
    • The programme will feature the intrepid Adam Nicolson on one leg of an epic voyage of discovery that took him six months to complete and that gives viewers a wholly different view of the world.
    • Fritz Reiner himself had gone on a figurative voyage of discovery before realizing that this was music worth conducting and recording.
    • Although the two ships crossed paths several times on the return voyage, they never made contact.
    • In 1863 she made her maiden voyage to China and Australia.
    • It made me realise that Manchester had a really great music scene, and it set me off on a voyage of discovery around some of Manchester's record shops.
    • The Galileo unmanned spacecraft is about to conclude a 14-year voyage of exploration to Jupiter and its moons.
    • My recent boat trip down the Li River was like a voyage back in time.
    • The ship set sail under Robert Falcon Scott on his famous voyage of discovery to the Antarctic.
    Synonyms
    journey, trip, expedition, excursion, tour, hike, trek, tramp, safari, pilgrimage, quest, crusade, odyssey
verbˈvoiijˈvɔɪɪdʒ
  • 1no object, with adverbial of direction Go on a long journey, typically by sea or in space.

    航海;航空;航行;旅行;航程

    he has voyaged through places like Venezuela and Peru

    他已经航行经过像委内瑞拉和秘鲁这样的地方。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Eventually the compass made its way to Europe and onto the ships Christopher Columbus used to voyage across the Atlantic.
    • OpenUniverse lets you voyage through a simulated solar system, another test of graphics performance.
    • Imagine that you are an intergalactic space traveller, voyaging through the ancient cosmos.
    • The Caledonian Canal was engineered to provide shipping with a sheltered alternative to voyaging around the stormy Scottish coast.
    • It was a central paradox of Arbus's strongest years, however, that the pursuit of the authentic did not necessarily voyage toward sanity.
    • Throughout Iron Age times Hengistbury Head was an important port for ships crossing the English Channel or voyaging along the south coast.
    • How does he feel, voyaging into the darker recesses of this kind of soul to write about the very thing that he fears most?
    • Often the answer lies in travelling backwards, closer to his roots, as he did after voyaging in 1911 to India, where his mother had been born.
    • Here, plain to see, was a living, shining planet voyaging through space and shared by all of humanity, a precious vessel vulnerable to pollution and to the overuse of its limited capacities.
    • Before their colonization by the Europeans and the U.S. in the 1800s, the Polynesians continued voyaging back and forth across the vast distances of the Pacific.
    • Blake, Sefton and crew then voyaged north to the Amazon and another 1,400 miles up the rain-forested Amazon and Negro rivers.
    • We sat hunched in the cramped cabin space like creatures packed and voyaging through the unknown.
    • However much a skipper may gripe, maintenance is as much a part of boating as voyaging itself - and (if the truth be told) as enjoyable.
    • The bridge was quiet as they voyaged on, Allison looking out the viewscreen as her sandy blonde hair fell into her eyes.
    • The story deals with a group of people, including a famous diva, Florencia Grimaldi, voyaging down the Amazon on the steamship El Dorado in the early 1900s.
    • Their stories didn't stray far from home and hearth, while pulp stories frequently ventured from the Wild West to darkest Africa, or voyaged to the moon or Mars.
    • We elected not to fly back to the UK - instead, we voyaged up the African coast and through the Suez Canal by Polish cargo ship.
    • Navigating through the exhibit, which opens May 1, visitors will voyage through time and around the globe.
    • As they voyage through space, the crew have to contend with anti-gravity failures, annoying talking doors and wars with alien races.
    • I thought about my parents, now in their early seventies, still hale but voyaging steadily into old age.
    Synonyms
    journey, tour, take a trip, go on a trip, go on an expedition, go on an excursion, go sightseeing, globetrot, backpack
    1. 1.1archaic with object Sail over or along (a sea or river).
      〈古〉在(海)上航行,沿(河)船行
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The Queen Mary 2 is definitely a luxuriant vessel upon which to voyage the Atlantic ocean.
      Synonyms
      travel, journey, take a trip, go on a trip, go on an expedition, go on an excursion, tour, globetrot

Origin

Middle English (as a noun denoting a journey): from Old French voiage, from Latin viaticum ‘provisions for a journey’ (in late Latin ‘journey’).

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