You can picture it as hauling yourself and your load a long, hard way on foot — the kind of going where the distance is felt in your legs, not measured on a map.
From the word’s history
From Afrikaans/Dutch trekken 'to pull, draw, travel', made famous in English by the Boers' Great Trek — ox-wagon migrations across South Africa. The original sense is literally pulling/hauling, which is why the word still carries effort rather than mere distance.
這個字是從南非荷蘭語 trek 進英文的，源頭荷蘭文 trekken 本義是「拉、拖、遷移」。它會進英文，是因為十九世紀南非波耳人趕牛車舉家長途遷徙（Great Trek）——一群人拖著全部家當走過草原和山地。這個「拉」的本義解釋了為什麼今天 trek 聽起來永遠比 walk 累：字的骨子裡就有拖曳的力氣在。
Wiktionary (trek < Afrikaans trek < Dutch trekken 'to pull, draw, march'), reinforced in English usage by the Great Trek
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原始詞典資料10 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
treknoun/tɹɛk/
- 1
A journey by ox wagon.
- 2
The Boer migration of 1835–1837.
- 3
A slow or difficult journey.
- We're planning a trek up Kilimanjaro.
- Early the next morning I set off on the long and hazardous trek through jungles and hills into Assam, and regretfully said "good-bye" to the gallant little Burma Railways, which had functioned to the last and played a big part in evacuating many thousands of refugees and wounded soldiers in the path of the rapidly advancing Japanese.
- 4
A long walk.
- I would drive to the shops from here; you can walk, but it's quite a trek.
trekverb/tɹɛk/
- 1
To make a slow or arduous journey.
- Before that they had been a good deal on the move, trekking about after the white man, who was one of those rolling stones that keep going round after a soft job.
- 2
To journey on foot, especially to hike through mountainous areas.
- 3
To travel by ox wagon.
- 4
To travel by walking.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
- Star Trek
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。