- 1雜技演員（馬戲團裡走繩、翻跟斗的那種；空中飛人多半特指盪鞦韆）
An acrobat is a person who entertains people by doing hard things with the body: walking on their hands, balancing on a thin rope high up, folding themselves in surprising ways, jumping and landing just so. The classic picture is the circus, under the big tent, but you also see acrobats in street shows, in the theatre, and in sports that borrow the same skills, such as floor work in gymnastics. The word is ordinary, not stuffy; children know it. People stretch it: they may call a skilled footballer or a politician an acrobat when someone twists out of trouble with surprising skill — that is a joke or a picture, not a job title. Though actually, not every circus performer is an acrobat. A clown makes you laugh; a magician tricks your eyes; the acrobat is the one whose art is the body in the air or on the wire. The Greek pieces mean something like 'walking on tiptoe' or 'walking at the tip' — high up, at the edge.
組成From French acrobate, from Ancient Greek akrobatēs: akros 'at the tip / the highest point' + -batēs 'someone who walks or goes'. So, someone who walks high up, or on tiptoe.
同家族的字
- acrobaticthe adjective: acrobatic moves
- acrobaticsthe skill, or the show itself
原始詞典資料3 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。
acrobatnoun/ˈæk.ɹə.bæt/
- 1
An athlete who performs acts requiring skill, agility and coordination, often as part of a circus performance.
acrobatverb/ˈæk.ɹə.bæt/
- 1
To practise acrobatics.
- Tumbling is different from posturing, and means throwing summersets and walking on your hands; and acrobating means the two together […]
- They seem to think as clowning and acrobating is a downright paradise, and comes as naturally to anybody as the measles.
- 2
To move like an acrobat (with agility, balance, long leaps, etc.).
- We have known […] veteran reporters, so dumbfounded and confounded by the first fire of Ralph, and his grand and lofty acrobating in elocution, that they up, seized their hat and paper, and sloped, horrified at the prospect of an attempt to “take down” Mr. Emerson.
- […] I laughed at the very idea of one of those heavy-pouched, blue-clad fellows catching hold of an agile fellow like I was, who had on more than one occasion acrobated from the engine’s tender back to the rear end of the caboose, by swinging and vaulting from truck to truck, underneath long freight trains running at top speed, with no member of the ever-alert train crew having discovered him.
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