joust
FREQ #32559
n. 马背长矛打斗, 格斗 vi. 进行马上长矛比武
发音
US
/d͡ʒaʊst/
CA
/d͡ʒʌʊst/
其它
/d͡ʒuːst/
其它
/d͡ʒʌst/
词形变化
jousts
复数
jousts
jousted
jousteth
jousting
jousts
三单
jousting
现在分词
jousted
过去式
jousted
过去分词
别名
giust
just
guist
释义与例句
n.
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1.
A tilting match: a mock combat between two mounted knights or men-at-arms using lances in the lists or enclosed field.
马上长矛比武
比武
medieval joust
v.
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1.
To engage in mock combat on horseback, as two knights in the lists; to tilt.
The knights prepared to joust in the tournament.
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2.
To engage in verbal sparring over an important issue. (used of two people, both of whom participate more or less equally)
verbally joust
Politicians often joust with words during debates.
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3.
To touch penises while engaging in a sex act, especially oral sex.
俚语
词汇关系
词源
From Middle English, borrowed from Old French jouster (modern French jouter), from Vulgar Latin *juxtō, *iuxtō, *iuxtāre, from Latin iūxta (“close to”). English since the early 14th century.
来源:wiktionary