喜樂美語
  1. 1nA2/tʃes/西洋棋

    a board game for two people. Each player moves their pieces across a board of black and white squares, following set rules, and tries to trap the other player's king, which is the most important piece.

    示範例句 · Example

    Leo and his grandmother play chess every Sunday afternoon.

    逐字里歐和他的奶奶每個星期天下午下西洋棋。

    中文的「棋」是一個很大的字——圍棋、象棋、跳棋都叫棋；英文的 chess 只指其中一種，就是有國王、皇后、城堡的那種西洋棋。目標是把對方的 king（國王）困住，讓它無路可走，這時遊戲就結束了。chess 是不可數名詞，所以說 play chess（下西洋棋）、a game of chess（一盤西洋棋），不會說 a chess；要講「一副棋」是 a chess set，「棋盤」是 a chess board。

    常見搭配

    • play chess

      下西洋棋

      to have a game of chess with someone

      Do you want to play chess after lunch?

    • a game of chess

      一盤西洋棋

      one single match of chess between two players

      We had a quick game of chess before dinner.

    • a chess set

      一副西洋棋（整組棋子）

      the complete group of chess pieces, usually with the board

      Grandpa gave her a beautiful wooden chess set.

    • a chess board

      棋盤

      the square board with black and white squares that you play on

      There was a chess board set up on the table by the window.

    • a chess piece

      棋子

      one of the objects you move around the chess board

      One of the chess pieces was missing, so we used a coin.

    • a chess player

      西洋棋棋手

      someone who plays chess

      Today, many chess players practise with online games.

    • a chess tournament

      西洋棋錦標賽

      a competition where many people play chess against each other

      Ren is taking part in a chess tournament this weekend.

    • a chess club

      西洋棋社

      a group of people who meet regularly to play chess

      She joined the chess club in her first week at school.

    用法接近

    checkersdraughtsbackgammonboard gamechessboard

core核心畫面

Picture a board of sixty-four black and white squares between two people. Each side has its own set of pieces, and every kind of piece is only allowed to move in its own fixed way. Nothing is hidden and nothing is random — you can see everything the other person can see, so the whole game is about thinking further ahead than they do, closing in until their king has nowhere left to go.

可以想成兩個人中間擺著一塊黑白相間、六十四格的棋盤。雙方各有一組棋子，每種棋子只准照自己那條固定的走法移動。這個遊戲沒有藏牌、也沒有骰子——你看得到的，對方也看得到，所以整場比的是誰想得比較遠：一步一步把對方的王逼到無路可走。也因為這樣，chess 常被拿來比喻那種需要長期算計的局面（a game of political chess）。

用法接近

checkersdraughtsbackgammonboard gamechessboard

原始詞典資料5 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。

Chessname

  • 1

    A surname.

  • 2

    A river in Buckinghamshire and Hertfordshire, England, which joins the Colne at Rickmansworth.

chessnoun詞源 1/t͡ʃɛs/

  • 1

    A board game for two players, each beginning with sixteen chess pieces moving according to fixed rules across a chessboard with the objective to checkmate the opposing king.

    • At the tender age of 20, Penguingm1 is already one of the best hyperbullet and ultrabullet chess players in the world.
    • FIDE appeals to all chess players and federations to accept this view.

chessnoun詞源 2/t͡ʃɛs/

  • 1

    Any of several species of grass in the genus Bromus, generally considered weeds.

    • Hobbled, loudly gourmandizing the dry chess grass, they were guarded by a pair of dismounted soldiers in long, dusty coats [...].

chessnoun詞源 3/t͡ʃɛs/

  • 1

    governmentmilitarypoliticsOne of the platforms, consisting of two or more planks dowelled together, for the flooring of a temporary military bridge.

    • the balks are laid and covered with chesses to within 1 foot of the trestle
    • ach chess consists of three planks.

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