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A battleground is the actual place where a battle or fight happens, whether a real, historical war battle ('the battleground at Gettysburg') or, more commonly today, used figuratively for any place or topic where there is a serious disagreement or competition — 'the classroom became a battleground' or 'climate policy is a political battleground.'
戰場;(引申)爭論或競爭的焦點
組成battle + ground (the land or place where something happens).
同家族的字
- battlefielda close synonym, formed the same way with 'battle' plus a word for land
原始詞典資料4 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,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。
battlegroundnoun/ˈbætəlˌɡɹaʊnd/
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A location where a battle may be fought, or has been fought.
- The farmer's field was a civil war battleground, and relics such a minnie bullets were frequently found while plowing.
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Any place or situation of dispute or contention.
- And now the two of them are lost in a screaming battleground
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Any subject of dispute or contention.
- Abortion was becoming the season's big political battleground.
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資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。