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?
我在欧洲游荡，好像爱德华时代在做大游历的年轻人，这是为了什么呢？
Many are known primarily for their travels: think of Paul Gauguin, the Scottish Colourists, the artists who went on the Grand Tour.
许多艺术家主要因为他们的游记而出名：回想下苏格兰五彩画家保罗高更，回想下遍游欧洲大陆的艺术家们。
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.
赴欧旅行一直都是了新兴富裕国家的一项传统，始作俑者是18世纪年轻的英国贵族们，他们到欧洲大陆学习语言，收集文物，还染上了性病。

You have own your way to a grand book tour to introduce your book to the country.
您应该到各地举行新书发布演说,像整个国家介绍这本书。
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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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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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