| 单词 |
sight-seeing |
| 释义 |
ˈsight-seeing, vbl. n.
[f. sight n.1 1 c.]
The action or occupation of seeing sights.
1824R. Heber Narr. Journey Upper Provinces India (1828) I. xv. 380 Morning rides, evening sight-seeing. 1847F. A. Kemble Later Life III. 250 It involves what I have no taste for—i.e., sightseeing. 1883F. M. Peard Contrad. xiv, The duke escaped the sight-seeing which bored him.
attrib.1827Mrs. B. Hall Let. 13 Dec. in Aristocratic Journey (1931) 146 This has been another regular sight-seeing day. 1863J. C. Jeaffreson Sir Everard's Dau. 87 Amongst the country folk..who paid Sharsted a sight⁓seeing visit. 1892Gunter Miss Dividends (1893) 109 Mrs. Livingston proposes a sight-seeing drive about the city. 1916Daily Colonist (Victoria, B.C.) 9 July 6/3 The picnic party left the Gorge terminus during the early forenoon in the special sight-seeing car of the B.C. Electric Railway. 1925C. Morley Thunder on Left xiii. 170 People were always driving up in crowds to visit his secrets. Like sight-seeing busses loaded with excursionists. 1976National Observer (U.S.) 30 Oct. 5/1, I spotted an empty sightseeing bus moving slowly up Collins Avenue. |
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