the place to which someone or something is going or being sent 目的地,送达地点 a popular destination for holiday golfers. 度假打高尔夫球的人们常光顾的地方。 ■[as modifier]denoting a place that people will make a special trip to visit 专访目的地 a destination restaurant. 人们特意要去的一家餐馆。
语源
late Middle English: from Latin destinatio(n-), from destinare 'make firm, establish'. The original sense was 'the action of intending someone or something for a particular purpose', later 'being destined for a particular place', hence (from the early 19th cent.) the place itself