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考察,探险;考察队,探险队

资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Expedition \Ex`pe*di"tion\, n. [L. expeditio: cf.F.
   exp['e]dition.]
   1. The quality of being expedite; efficient promptness;
      haste; dispatch; speed; quickness; as to carry the mail
      with expedition.

            With winged expedition

            Swift as the lightning glance. ?

   2. A sending forth or setting forth the execution of some
      object of consequence; progress.

            Putting it straight in expedition. ?

   3. An important enterprise, implying a change of place;
      especially, a warlike enterprise; a march or a voyage with
      martial intentions; an excursion by a body of persons for
      a valuable end; as, a military, naval, exploring, or
      scientific expedition; also, the body of persons making
      such excursion.

            The expedition miserably failed.      --Prescott.

            Narrative of the exploring expedition to the Rocky
            Mountains. --J. C. Fremont.

资料来源 : WordNet®

expedition
     n 1: a military campaign designed to achieve a specific objective
          in a foreign country [syn: {military expedition}, {hostile
          expedition}]
     2: an organized group of people undertaking a journey for a
        particular purpose; "an expedition was sent to explore
        Mars"
     3: a journey organized for a particular purpose
     4: a journey taken for pleasure; "many summer excursions to the
        shore"; "it was merely a pleasure trip"; "after cautious
        sashays into the field" [syn: {excursion}, {jaunt}, {outing},
         {junket}, {pleasure trip}, {sashay}]
     5: the property of being prompt and efficient; "it was done
        with dispatch" [syn: {dispatch}, {despatch}, {expeditiousness}]