tour

• n. 旅遊，旅行；巡回演出
• vt. 旅行，在……旅遊；在……作巡回演出
• vi. 旅行，旅遊；作巡回演出
• n. (Tour)人名；(瑞典)托爾；(英)圖爾

來自古法語 tourn,轉動，巡遊，繞圈，詞源同 turn.引申諸相關詞義。

tour

tour: [14] Etymologically, a tour is a ‘circular movement’. The word comes via Old French tour from Latin tornus ‘lathe’, which also produced English turn. It was not used for a ‘journey of visits’ – literally a ‘circuitous journey’ – until the 17th century (the term grand tour, denoting a lengthy journey around western Europe formerly undertaken by fashionable young men, ostensibly for educational purposes, is first recorded in the mid-18th century, but the derivative tourist does not crop up until about 1800). Tournament [13] and tourney [13] both go back ultimately to a Vulgar Latin derivative of tornus, the underlying etymological notion being of the combatants ‘turning’ or wheeling round to face each other.

And tourniquet [17] probably comes from the same source.
=> tournament, tourniquet, turn

tour (n.)

c. 1300, "a turn, a shift on duty," from Old French tor, tourn, tourn "a turn, trick, round, circuit, circumference," from torner, tourner "to turn" (see turn (v.)). Sense of "a continued ramble or excursion" is from 1640s. Tour de France as a bicycle race is recorded in English from 1916 (Tour de France Cycliste), distinguished from a motorcar race of the same name. The Grand Tour, a journey through France, Germany, Switzerland, and Italy formerly was the finishing touch in the education of a gentleman.

tour (v.)

1746, "make a tour, travel about," from tour (n.). Related: Toured; touring.

1. Our tour prices bore little resemblance to those in the holiday brochures.

我們的旅遊報價和那些度假手冊裏的價格相去甚遠。

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2. The tour will include games against the Australian Barbarians.

這次巡回賽將包括和澳大利亞野人隊的比賽。

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3. He found the rigours of the tour too demanding.

他發現這次旅行非常艱苦。

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4. The band are currently on a two-month tour of Europe.

樂隊目前正在歐洲進行為期兩個月的巡回演出。

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5. There were mixed fortunes for French rugby teams on tour.

參加巡回比賽的法國橄欖球隊成績有喜有悲。

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