| 正面 | 4699.expedition 英 [ekspɪ'dɪʃ(ə)n]美 [,ɛkspə'dɪʃən]     |
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| 背面 |      释义： 1. 大街上下雨要拉紧雨布。n. 远征；探险队；迅速 例句： 1. The expedition was wrecked by bad planning and poor navigation.这次探险因计划不周和导航不利而失败。 expedition 远征来自expedite, 加速。后用来指重大的军事行动，军事远征。 expeditionexpedition: [15] The Latin verb expedīre originally had the rather mundane meaning ‘free one’s feet’ – from a snare, for example It was formed from the prefix ex- ‘out’ and pēs ‘foot’ (source of English pedal, pedestrian, etc and related to English foot). Its literal meaning was soon lost sight of, progressing via ‘extricate, liberate’ to ‘bring out, make ready’ and ‘put in order, arrange, set right’.The notion of ‘freeing’ something, enabling it to go forward without hindrance, is reflected in the verb’s English descendant expedite [17]. It also survives in the derived noun expedition, as ‘promptness, dispatch’; in the main, however, this has taken a different semantic route, via ‘sending out a military force’ to ‘long organized journey for a particular purpose’.=> expedite, foot, pedal, pedestrianexpedition (n.)early 15c., "military campaign; the act of rapidly setting forth," from Old French expedicion "an expediting, implementation; expedition, mission" (13c.) and directly from Latin expeditionem (nominative expeditio) "an enterprise against an enemy, a military campaign," noun of action from past participle stem of expedire "make ready, prepare" (see expedite). Meaning "journey for some purpose" is from 1590s. Sense by 1690s also included the body of persons on such a journey." |