One way to picture this word: two sides meet and each pushes hard to overcome the other — swords clashing on a field, two armies straining against each other until one gives way. That image of a hard, sustained struggle between two opposing forces is the seed. Everything else is what happens when you take that same fight and aim it at a rival, a problem, or a hardship instead of an enemy army.
登入就可以看每一支怎麼連回核心畫面。
原始詞典資料17 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,摘錄並精簡格式,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Battlename/ˈbætəɫ/
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A habitational surname from Middle English from places in England that have been sites of a battle.
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A place name:
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battlenoun詞源 1/ˈbætl̩/
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A contest, a struggle.
- the battle of life
- I returned, and saw vnder the Sunne, That the race is not to the swift, nor the battell to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of vnderstanding, nor yet fauour to men of skil; but time and chance happeneth to them all.
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A contest, a struggle.
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governmentmilitarypoliticsA general action, fight, or encounter, in which all the divisions of an army are or may be engaged; a combat, an engagement.
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archaicgovernmentmilitarypoliticsA division of an army; a battalion.
- Thenne kyng Arthur made redy his hooſt in x batails and Nero was redy in the felde afore the caſtel Tarabil with a grete hooſt / & he had x batails with many mo peple than Arthur had […]
- They ſay, that the King diuided his Armie into three Battailes; whereof the Vant-guard onely well ſtrengthened with wings, came to fight.
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obsoletegovernmentmilitarypoliticsThe main body of an army, as distinct from the vanguard and rear; the battalia.
- Iohn Duke of Norfolke, Thomas Earle of Surrey, Shall haue the leading of the Foot and Horſe. They thus directed, we will fllow ^([sic]) In the maine Battell, whose puiſſance on either ſide Shall be well-winged with our cheefeſt Horſe: This, and Saint George to boote.
- hovering aloofe in the fields he suffered Wyat his Van and main Battell (cutting off some of the Reare) to march undisturbed save with one shot, from Knights-Bridge to Charing Chrosse.
battleverb詞源 1/ˈbætl̩/
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To join in battle; to contend in fight
- Scientists always battle over theories.
- She has been battling against cancer for years.
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To fight or struggle; to enter into a battle with.
- She has been battling cancer for years.
battleadj詞源 2/ˈbætl̩/
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agriculturebusinesslifestyleOf grass or pasture: nutritious to cattle or sheep; fattening, nourishing.
- battle grass battle pasture
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agriculturebusinesslifestyleOf land (originally pastureland) or soil: fertile, fruitful.
- battle land battle soil
battleverb詞源 2/ˈbætl̩/
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dialectalagriculturebusinesslifestyleTo feed or nourish (someone or something).
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dialectalagriculturebusinesslifestyleTo render (land, soil, etc.) fertile or fruitful.
- To Devonſhire or Denſhire land. That is, to pare off the ſurface or top turf thereof, and to lay it upon heaps and burn it; vvhich aſhes are a marvelous improvement to battle barren land, by reaſon of the fixt ſalt vvhich they contain.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形:
- battle buddy
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary,已精簡格式;依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用,改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。