近代时期,海外旅行被视为英国绅士教育过程必不可少的组成部分,成为深受他们欢迎的一种教育实践。到后来,“大旅行”则发展成为该实践的典型形式。在教育旅行实践开展的过程中,时人就教育旅行的功效、利弊展开了激烈的争论,揭示了社会变动背景下英国社会特别是下层绅士的种种顾虑和担心。 In modern times, overseas travel was regarded as an indispensable part of the English gentleman’s education process, becoming an education practice popular with them. Later, Big Travel developed into a typical form of the practice. In the process of educational travel practice, the people started fierce debate on the efficacy, pros and cons of education travel, and revealed the worries and fears of British society, especially the lower gentlemen in the context of social changes.