bourn /ˈborn, ˈbɔrn, ˈbʊrn/
目的地;目標;境界;小河
Bourn, Bourne n. A stream or rivulet; a burn.
My little boat can safely pass this perilous bourn. --Spenser.
Bourn, Bourne n. A bound; a boundary; a limit. Hence: Point aimed at; goal.
Where the land slopes to its watery bourn. --Cowper.
The undiscovered country, from whose bourn
No traveler returns. --Shak.
Sole bourn, sole wish, sole object of my song. --Wordsworth.
To make the doctrine . . . their intellectual bourne. --Tyndall.
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bourn
n 1: an archaic term for a boundary [syn: bourne]
2: an archaic term for a goal or destination [syn: bourne]