the grand tour

基本解釋

What am I doing swanning around Europe as if I am some young Edwardian doing the Grand Tour?
我在歐洲遊蕩，好像愛德華時(shí)代在做大遊歷的年輕人，這是爲(wèi)了什麼呢？
Many are known primarily for their travels: think of Paul Gauguin, the Scottish Colourists, the artists who went on the Grand Tour.
許多藝術(shù)家主要因爲(wèi)他們的遊記而出名：廻想下囌格蘭五彩畫家保羅高更，廻想下遍遊歐洲大陸的藝術(shù)家們。
The Grand Tour has been a tradition of newly rich countries ever since young British aristocrats took to the Continent in the eighteenth century, picking up languages, antiques, and venereal disease.
赴歐旅行一直都是了新興富裕國(guó)家的一項(xiàng)傳統(tǒng)，始作俑者是18世紀(jì)年輕的英國(guó)貴族們，他們到歐洲大陸學(xué)習(xí)語(yǔ)言，收集文物，還染上了性病。

You have own your way to a grand book tour to introduce your book to the country.
您應(yīng)該到各地?cái)H行新書發(fā)佈縯說(shuō),像整個(gè)國(guó)家介紹這本書。
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At the start of the 19th century, the Grand Tour was still the privilege of a small number of aristocrats.
ECONOMIST: Mountaineering lore
The Grand Tour has been a tradition of newly rich countries ever since young British aristocrats took to the Continent in the eighteenth century, picking up languages, antiques, and venereal disease.
NEWYORKER: The Grand Tour
If it does not, and if the grand tour leader cannot lay the blame on Mr Fox, he faces an uncomfortable choice: back down and negotiate a new agreement, return to the jungle and take up arms once more, or disappear into the obscurity from which he came.
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