stadium

英 ['steɪdɪəm] 美['stedɪəm]

近义词arena ballpark circus amphitheater complex theater field athletic hippodrome bowl sports

n. 体育场；露天大型运动场

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中文词源

stadium 体育场，运动场

来自拉丁语 stadium,长度测量单位，跑步道，赛道，来自古希腊语 stadion,长度测量单位，跑步道，赛道，尤指奥林区克短跑赛道，来自 stadios,固定的，来自 PIE*sta,站，站立，词源同 stand,distance.在古希腊时期，one stadium 约为八分之一英里，185 米。后引申词义体育场，运动场。

词态变化

复数: stadia; stadiums;

英文词源

stadium: stadium: [16] Greek stádion denoted a ‘racetrack’, particularly the one at Olympia, which was about 185 metres long. In due course the word came to be used as a term for a measure of length equal to this, and that was the sense in which English originally acquired it, via Latin stadium. The original ‘racetrack’ was introduced in the 17th century, and ‘sports arena’ is a modern development of this. The Greek word itself was an alteration of an earlier spádion ‘racetrack’, a derivative of span ‘pull’ (source of English spasm). The change from sp- to st- was perhaps set in motion by Greek stádios ‘fixed, firm’.
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stadium (n.): late 14c., "a foot race; an ancient measure of length," from Latin stadium "a measure of length; a course for foot-racers" (commonly one-eighth of a Roman mile or a little over 600 English feet; translated in early English Bibles by furlong), from Greek stadion "a measure of length; a race-course, a running track," especially the track at Olympia, which was one stadion in length. The meaning "running track," recorded in English from c. 1600, was extended to mean in modern-day context "large, open oval structure with tiers of seats for viewing sporting events" (1834).

"Originally the distance between successive stations of the shouters and runners employed to estimate distances" [Century Dictionary]. According to Barnhart, the Greek word might literally mean "fixed standard of length" (from stadios "firm, fixed," from PIE root *sta- "to stand"), or it may be from spadion, from span "to draw up, pull," with form influenced by stadios.

双语例句

1. A thousand supporters packed into the stadium to cheer them on.: 1,000名支持者挤进体育馆里为他们加油。

2. Thousands of people, mainly Zulus, assembled in a stadium in Thokoza.: 数以千计的人，主要是祖鲁族人，聚集在托考查的一个体育场里。

3. The city fathers have just given final approval to a new stadium.: 市政官员刚刚决定同意建立一座新体育馆。

4. The stadium has been fitted with seating for over eighty thousand spectators.: 这个体育场配备了8万多个观众座席。

5. The stadium will be as near as dammit empty.: 体育场里将几乎空无一人。

英英释意

1. a large structure for open-air sports or entertainments

实用场景例句

a football/sports stadium: 足球 / 运动场

an all-seater stadium: 全坐席体育场

...a baseball stadium.: 棒球场

...Wembley Stadium.: 温布利球场

This stadium has seen many thrilling football matches.: 这个体育场举行过许多场扣人心弦的足球比赛.

As a great many people will be visiting the country, the government will be building new hotels, an immense stadium, and a fine new swimming pool.: 因为很多人将要访问这个国家, 政府将要建造新的旅馆, 一个巨大的体育场和一个漂亮的新游泳池.

Spectators enter the stadium, etc.: 观众进场.

That must be the oval unroofed amphitheater in Rome. It was basically a stadium with comprehensive functions.: 那就是罗马的椭圆型露天竞技场了, 基本上是综合功能的体育场.

We sat in the upper tier at the stadium.: 我们坐在体育场的上排.

An army of workmen was brought in to build the stadium.: 一大群工人被召来建筑运动场.

The crowd surged out of the stadium.: 人群从体育场涌出.

The stadium is being used for a match.: 那个露天运动场正在进行一场比赛.

The roads converged at the stadium.: 各条道路在体育场会聚.

By the end of next year, they will have finished working on the new stadium.: 到明年年底, 他们将建成这个新体育场.

The crowds surge out of the sports stadium.: 人群从运动场拥出.

Police are patrolling the major approach roads to the stadium.: 警察正在通往运动场的主要道路上巡逻.

He left all his money to the town with the stipulation that It'should be used to build a new football stadium.: 他把所有的钱都留给了该镇,条件是必须用这些钱来建一个新足球场.

The stadium was a seething cauldron of emotion.: 体育场内群情沸腾。

eager crowds outside the stadium: 体育场外急不可耐的观众

Floodlights illuminated the stadium.: 泛光灯照亮了体育场。

He is spearheading a campaign for a new stadium in the town.: 他正发起一项运动，呼吁在城里新建一座体育场。

The city is providing free transportation to the stadium from downtown.: 本市现在提供从市中心到体育场的免费交通。

A thousand supporters packed into the stadium to cheer them on.: 1,000名支持者挤进体育馆里为他们加油。

Thousands of people, mainly Zulus, assembled in a stadium in Thokoza.: 数以千计的人，主要是祖鲁族人，聚集在托考查的一个体育场里。

The stadium was jammed and they had to turn away hundreds of disappointed fans.: 体育场里观众爆满，他们不得不将几百名失望的球迷拒之门外。

The city fathers have just given final approval to a new stadium.: 市政官员刚刚决定同意建立一座新体育馆。

The stadium has been fitted with seating for over eighty thousand spectators.: 这个体育场配备了8万多个观众座席。

I think that he was pushing it a bit when he said it was the best stadium in the world.: 他说这是世界上最好的体育场，我觉得说得有些过头。

The stadium emptied at the end of the first day of athletics.: 首日比赛结束后，体育场空无一人。

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