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A journey is one single piece of travel. You make journeys when you travel from
one place to another. (Note that the plural is spelt journeys, not journies):
" The journey from London to Newcastle by train can now be completed in
under three hours.
" We can talk about journeys taking or lasting a long time:
" How long did your journey take? ~ Oh, it lasted for ever. We stopped at
every small station.
" We occasionally use journey as a verb as an alternative to travel, although
it may sound a bit formal or poetic:
" We journeyed /travelled between the pyramids in Mexico on horseback.
trip (noun)
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A trip usually involves more than one single journey. We talk about day trips,
round trips and business trips. We make journeys usually, but we go on trips:
" I went on a day trip to France. We left at 6.30 in the morning and returned
before midnight the same day.
" The round-trip ticket enabled me to visit all the major tourist destinations in
India.
" Where's Laurie? ~ He won't be in this week. He's gone on a business trip to
Malaysia and Singapore.
" The trip went well. It was an old car, but we didn't break down in four weeks
of travelling
expedition (noun)
An expedition is an organised trip whose purpose is usually scientific exploration
of the environment. You go on expeditions, just as you go on trips.
" Numerous expeditions to The Antarctic have ended in disaster.
" Are you going to join the expedition up the Amazon this year, like the one
Tom went on last year?
" Less dangerous and less adventurous are shopping expeditions when you
are hunting down particular goods or bargains and fishing expeditions
when you go in search of fish which are not easy to locate or catch.
safari (noun)
A safari is a trip or expedition to observe wild animals in their natural habitat in
Africa, usually. You go on safari to safari parks. In days gone by, you might have
worn your light cotton safari suit for this purpose:
" His one ambition in life was to go on safari to Kenya to photograph lions and
tigers.
cruise (noun and verb)
A cruise is a holiday during which you travel on a ship or boat and visit a number
of places en route. When we cruise, this is exactly what we do:
" They cruised all around the Mediterranean for eight weeks last summer and
stopped off at a number of uninhabited islands.
" My parents have seen nothing of the world so are saving up to go on a world
cruise when they retire. They are hoping to take a trip on the cruise liner,
the QE2, in 2004.
voyage (noun)
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A voyage is a long journey, not necessarily for pleasure, on a ship. We don't talk
about voyages very much in the present time, but historically they were very
significant:
" His second voyage (1493 - 96) led to the discovery of several Caribbean
islands. On his third voyage (1498 - 1500) he discovered the South American
mainland.
(Christopher Columbus, the great explorer)
take care / take a look: verb + noun collocations with take
Maria asks: Please can you give me some information about collocations, especially
about verb + noun collocations with take? Thanks a lot.
collocation
Collocations are words that habitually or typically occur together. There are verb +
adverb collocations like wave frantically (not wave hecticly). There are adjective +
noun collocations like regular exercise (not steady exercise). There are adverb +
adjective collocations like completely or wholly satisfied (not utterly satisfied).
And there are verb + noun or verb + object collocations like follow someone's
example (not pursue someone's example).
take
Take is one of the most commonly used verbs in the English language whose basic
meaning is to move something or somebody from one place to another, e.g:
I took him to the hospital because he was having difficulty breathing.
Take plenty of warm sweaters. It will be cold in Scotland.
There are a large number of take + noun collocations of which I include a selection
of the most common below. Note how much of the original meaning of take is
retained in these examples.
The first five are relatively easy to understand:
take a walk / a bus / a train
take a minute / a while / ten minutes
take exercise
take an interest in
take a photo
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I'm not ready yet. Why don't you take a walk round the park?
It's essential for your health to take regular exercise.
I took 300 photographs when I was on holiday in Patagonia.
Since Sharapova won Wimbledon my son has taken an interest in tennis.
Aren't you finished yet? ~ No, it will take me a while, I'm afraid
The middle five are a bit more difficult so an explanation of the meaning is given
after each example:
take steps / measures / action
take advice
take offence
take cover
take pity
If you take my advice, you'll stop seeing him.
We should take steps to ensure that no more money is lost on this venture.
There's no need to take offence. I was only joking!
They were firing over our heads, so we had to take cover.
She took pity on the stray dog and be became a family pet.
take steps, measures, etc: perform an action in order to achieve something
take advice: follow someone's guidance (on how best to achieve something)
take offence: feel upset because of something someone has said or done
take cover: hide of shelter from e.g bad weather or gunfire
take pity: show sympathy for someone because they are in a bad situation.
The final five are most difficult as they are idioms whose original meaning has been
lost (but which is explained in the notes below):
take the mickey out of someone
take the axe to something
take a raincheck
take heart
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take one's breath away
Stop taking the mickey. I'm fed up with being the butt of your jokes.
Can you manage Friday? ~ I'll have to take a raincheck on that, I'm afraid.
The way she played Lady Macbeth was so compelling it took my breath away.
Try to take heart from the fact that he's no longer in pain.
The company took the axe to senior management and abolished five posts.
take the mickey out of someone: to tease. Mickey represents Mickey Bliss, Cockney
rhyming slang for piss. The expression then is a euphemism for take the piss.
take the axe to something: make drastic cuts, particularly in workforce
take a raincheck: politely decline an offer whilst implying that you may take it up
later. A rainckeck was originally a voucher used in the US entitling one to see
another baseball game if the original one was rained off.
take heart: take courage In former times, moral courage was supposed to come
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