暑假到了，你有沒有一些親戚或朋友碰巧住在某個(gè)旅游城市呢？不如去投靠他們來增進(jìn)增進(jìn)感情、節(jié)省一些度假開支吧！這種度假方式目前在國外很受歡迎，英語中叫paliday，這個(gè)詞是由pal（朋友）和holiday（假期）構(gòu)成的合成詞。

A paliday is a holiday in which you rely on the goodwill of your friends or family to feed and house you in their own home. And in the recent tough financial climate, the paliday appears to be increasingly popular, as people search for alternative ways to take a break at a time when their holiday budget is tightly squeezed. (Source: macmillandictionary.com)

Paliday（親友假期）是指住在親戚或朋友家，由他們提供食宿的度假方式。在目前不景氣的經(jīng)濟(jì)形勢下，“親友假期”越來越火，因?yàn)檫@種度假方式可以讓人們?cè)陬A(yù)算有限的情況下還能享受一個(gè)不打折扣的假期，好好放松一下。

For example:

The most popular type of paliday is a beach or seaside break.

最受歡迎的“親友假期”是到沙灘或海濱度假。

Paliday follows a couple of other recent neologisms stemming from the need to find more economical ways to take a holiday. 2008 saw the emergence of the staycation, a holiday in which people stay at home and visit places near to where they live, and rapidly in its wake came the daycation, a day trip or short holiday that does not involve staying away overnight.

經(jīng)濟(jì)危機(jī)以來，人們想出了各種經(jīng)濟(jì)的度假方式，比如待在家里休息或者在附近區(qū)域景點(diǎn)游覽度假的staycation（家中度假）、以及不需要在外面過夜的daycation（一日游）。

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