the grand tour

基本解释

What am I doing swanning around Europe as if I am some young Edwardian doing the Grand Tour?
我在歐洲遊蕩，好像愛德華時代在做大遊歷的年輕人，這是爲了什麽呢？
Many are known primarily for their travels: think of Paul Gauguin, the Scottish Colourists, the artists who went on the Grand Tour.
許多藝術家主要因爲他們的遊記而出名：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家的一項傳統，始作俑者是18世紀年輕的英國貴族們，他們到歐洲大陸學習語言，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.
您應該到各地擧行新書發佈縯說,像整個國家介紹這本書。
普林斯頓公開課 - 國際座談會課程節選

At the start of the 19th century, the Grand Tour was still the privilege of a small number of aristocrats.
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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.
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