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 expedition [,ekspi'diʃәn]   添加此单词到默认生词本
n. 远征, 探险队, 迅速

  1. The mail is conveyed with expedition.
    那封信被迅速地传递出去。
  2. They planned to organize a scientific expedition.
    他们计划组织一次科学考察。
  3. He is the commander of the expedition.
    他是远征军的司令/探险队的队长。


expedition
[ noun ]
  1. a military campaign designed to achieve a specific objective in a foreign country

    2. <noun.act>
  2. an organized group of people undertaking a journey for a particular purpose

    3. <noun.group>
    an expedition was sent to explore Mars
  3. a journey organized for a particular purpose

    4. <noun.act>
  4. a journey taken for pleasure

    5. <noun.act>
    many summer excursions to the shore
    it was merely a pleasure trip
    after cautious sashays into the field
  5. the property of being prompt and efficient

    6. <noun.attribute>
    it was done with dispatch


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.

  1. But Chris Bonington, 53, leader of the expedition, told a news conference Wednesday "there's certainly not any conclusive evidence one way or another" that the legendary apeman exists.
  2. At one point early in the expedition, two of the team's three sleds were damaged in a crashing descent on ice, and at another point, a French doctor had to descend into an ice crevasse to rescue a stranded sled dog.
  3. Other members of the pioneering 1953 British expedition also returned to the base camp at the Pen-y-Gwryd Hotel in the Snowdonia mountains in north Wales.
  4. Robert D. Ballard, the expedition's leader, said the ship's state of preservation was remarkable.
  5. John J. Pershing led the retaliatory expedition.
  6. Starvation, scurvy and cannibalism apparently claimed the lives of most members of the expedition, she said.
  7. Previewing its conclusions, in an interview following the expedition, Mr. Reznichenko stated that "as a biological object the Aral Sea has perished."
  8. Brewer-Carias said the expedition found evidence that new splinter groups were spreading over the Brazilian-Venezuelan border.
  9. The Doolittle expedition is being paid for by the participants. It has the full cooperation of officials of the provincial government, said Xiangling Zhao, the Chinese counsul.
  10. "This thing was growing there in the forest before Marco Polo set sail for China," said expedition organizer Mitch Friedham of Bellingham, Wash.
  11. The other three people on the expedition were an employee of the Texas Department of Parks and Wildlife, a University of Texas graduate student and a civilian worker employed at Camp Bullis, Morris said.
  12. "Some of the team members have relatives on the other side," so the visits could get emotional, said expedition co-leader Paul Schurke, 33, of Minneapolis.
  13. He is one of a team examining the expedition, whose organizer and sole survivor, Alferd Packer, admitted eating his five colleagues but said he killed only one of them, and in self-defense.
  14. James Cook is believed to have first entered Antarctic waters during an expedition in 1773-75, and he was followed by several other mariners who discovered land there in the early 1800s.
  15. All the members of our expedition knew it," said Plaisted, who led a group of nine do-it-yourself snowmobile explorers to the pole in April 1968 in the first "indisputable" conquest by surface.
  16. CBS' Alaskan expedition, created by "St.
  17. Adventurer Will Steger's long-awaited expedition across Antarctica remains $600,000 shy of its $11 million budget.
  18. The remains were shown to an American team that arrived Aug. 6 in the Vietnamese capital, Hanoi, to begin a joint search expedition, said Lt.
  19. Although there were no archaeological breakthroughs, the expedition did reveal a number of details not known before, Ballard said.
  20. While scientific results of the expedition will take weeks or months to analyze, it already has broken diplomatic ground.
  21. The 10 Norwegians have been celebrated in books and movies, including the American film production, "Heroes of Telemark." Roenneberg, who led the expedition at 23 years old, said: "It was not like a military operation.
  22. The federal Fish and Wildlife Service is loaning its research vessel Grayling for the expedition.
  23. An expedition during the late summer of 1967 explored the lake bottom, but poor visibility did not produce good results, he said.
  24. The expedition's archaeologist, Thomas King, said the group hopes to find traces of the fuselage of Earhart's Lockheed Electra plane and its two steel engines.
  25. The Soviets proposed the expedition to demonstrate benefits of world cooperation and peace.
  26. As a result, the expedition leader's advice to take an early Zodiac ashore and catch the last one back was worth heeding. On one of my trips ashore I watched a mass of chin-strap penguins in an odoriferous rookery high on a stony hillside.
  27. The exploration office will work on options for returning to the moon and mounting a manned expedition to Mars, a goal set by President Bush last year.
  28. He predicted that a manned expedition to Mars could be carried out within 10 years.
  29. The Constitution said today that Moody was charged in 1983 with three counts of attempted murder involving a diving expedition in the Gulf of Mexico.
  30. The expedition covered two miles after taking off Thursday, five miles on Friday, 10 Saturday and 13 Sunday.
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