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On another website, a Chinese person asked how to use the words travel and trip. Here's a unique response for Dioenglish folks.
Travel - verb; trip - noun or verb, but when thinking of traveling, a trip is a noun. Examples:
I plan to take a trip and travel to China next year. I postponed my trip because I'm not ready to spend the money, so we plan to travel next year. I hope I don't get tripped up and am not able to take the trip. You can also trip on a log or rock. So, we might say we take a trip, go on a journey, or go traveling and sightseeing. However, we don't say we are taking a travel unless we are using Chinglish. Taking a travel is perfect Chinglish, but we don't use it in English.
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- Reply ada23
- in my opinion trip means a little convient and short distance visiting. travel means a big longer distane visiting.
- Reply sunnyv
- Oh seems you got it right. Lets say I am taking a trip from Beijing to Shanghai for the summer holidays and when I return, I would travel to Brazil for business.
ada23: in my opinion trip means a little convient and short distance visiting. travel means a big longer distane visiting.
Travel – to go from one place to another, normally one country to another
Trip – a journey that is often for a short period of time.
- Reply sedgehead
- To some extent, that is correct. However, there's still the subject/verb issue. If I travel, I'm "verbing" (action). If I take a trip, I'm using a noun (person, place, or thing). I don't "trip" to Beijing (unless it is all in my head and I'm taking illegal-mind-altering drugs) and I don't take a travel to Brazil. Note that in Sunnyv's sentence "a trip" is a noun and "travel to Brazil" uses a verb. I could just as easily travel (verb) across town or take a trip (noun) to Brazil. If I go traveling, I'm verbing. If I take a trip, I'm back to nouns again.
sunnyv: Oh seems you got it right. Lets say I am taking a trip from Beijing to Shanghai for the summer holidays and when I return, I would travel to Brazil fo ...
