athletic

B1 CET-4 高中 FREQ #9983 ★★☆☆☆

a. 运动的

发音

UK /æθˈlɛt.ɪk/
其它

词形变化

athletics 复数 athletics more athletic 比较级 most athletic 最高级

别名

athletick

教材释义与例句

形容词

运动的,运动员的;体格健壮的

physically strong and good at sport

a tall athletic man

一个高大强壮的男子

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A muscular, large–boned person, in the typology of Ernst Kretschmer.

adj. B1
  1. 1.

    Having to do with athletes.

    Are you a member of the American Athletic Association?

  2. 2.

    Physically active.

    Since you're such an athletic person, you may wish to consider joining.

  3. 3.

    Having a muscular, well developed body, being in shape.

    You have such an athletic build—you must work out regularly.

  4. 4.

    An attribute of a motion or play which requires fine physical ability.

    The center fielder made an athletic play to snatch the ball from over the fence.

  5. 5.

    Of a level in a Super Mario game: with an emphasis on platforming challenge, often involving precise jumps between floating platforms above a bottomless pit, and having upbeat background music.

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Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂weh₁-der. Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr Proto-Indo-European *-tromder. Ancient Greek ἆθλον (âthlon) Ancient Greek ᾱ̓θλέω (āthléō) Proto-Hellenic *-tās Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs) Ancient Greek ἀθλητής (athlētḗs) Proto-Indo-European *-kos Ancient Greek -κός (-kós) Ancient Greek -ικός (-ikós) Ancient Greek ᾱ̓θλητῐκός (āthlētĭkós)bor. Latin āthlēticuslbor. Middle French athletiquebor. English athletic Borrowed from Middle French athletique and Latin āthlēticus, from Ancient Greek ἀθλητικός (athlētikós, “relating to an athlete”), from ἀθλητής (athlētḗs, “athlete”): equivalent to athlete + -ic. For more, see athlete. The Super Mario sense is effectively a reborrowing of Japanese アスレチック (asurechikku, “obstacle course”), originally borrowed from English athletic; this sense was itself originally a clipping of the genericized wasei eigo trademark フィールドアスレチック (fīrudo asurechikku, “Field Athletic”).

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