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]