tour

• n. 旅游，旅行；巡回演出
• vt. 旅行，在……旅游；在……作巡回演出
• vi. 旅行，旅游；作巡回演出
• n. (Tour)人名；(瑞典)托尔；(英)图尔

来自古法语 tourn,转动，巡游，绕圈，词源同 turn.引申诸相关词义。

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.

我们的旅游报价和那些度假手册里的价格相去甚远。

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

这次巡回赛将包括和澳大利亚野人队的比赛。

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

他发现这次旅行非常艰苦。

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

乐队目前正在欧洲进行为期两个月的巡回演出。

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

参加巡回比赛的法国橄榄球队成绩有喜有悲。

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