duel

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n. 决斗, 斗争 vi. 决斗

发音

UK /ˈˈd͡ʒuːəl/
US /ˈdul/
US /ˈd(j)u.əl/

词形变化

duels 复数 duels dueled dueling duelled duelling duels 三单 dueling 现在分词 duelling 现在分词 dueled 过去式 dueled 过去分词 duelled 过去式 duelled 过去分词

教材释义与例句

名词

决斗；斗争，抗争

动词

决斗

释义与例句

n. B2
  1. 1.

    Arranged, regular combat between two private persons, often over a matter of honor.

    决斗

  2. 2.

    Historically, the wager of battle (judicial combat).

  3. 3.

    Any battle or struggle between two contending persons, forces, groups, or ideas.

    引申义

    a sniper duel

v.
  1. 1.

    To engage in a battle.

    决斗

    The two dogs were duelling for the bone.

词汇关系

名词

同义词 1

affaire d'honneur

上位词 6

fight fighting battle struggle combat scrap
动词

上位词 3

fight struggle contend

相关短语

trial by combat

词源

From Medieval Latin duellum (“fight between two men, duel”), itself from Old Latin duellum (“war, fight”), which survived in Classical Latin as a rare byform of bellum and was later reinterpreted as “duel” by unetymological association with duo (“two”). May have entered English through Middle French duel.

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