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A decathlon is a track-and-field contest in which one athlete does ten different events — running, jumping, throwing — and adds up the points. It is not a team game and not a ten-day festival, even though the name has “ten” in it. The modern Olympic decathlon was coined for the 1912 Games, copying the older (five events). The usual women’s all-round contest is the (seven events), though women have also contested a decathlon. People call a strong all-rounder a “decathlete.” It is not a marathon; a marathon is one long race.
十項全能
組成From dec- (“ten”) + -athlon, coined for the 1912 Summer Olympics in analogy to pentathlon.
同家族的字
- pentathlonfive events; same -athlon, “contest”
- triathlonthree events; same -athlon
- athletefrom the same Greek athlon, “contest”
- decadesame dec- / déka, “ten”
原始詞典資料2 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。
decathlonnoun/diːˈkæθlɒn/
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An athletic contest consisting of ten events which includes sprinting, hurdling, jumping, and throwing over a span of two days.
- He entered U.C.L.A. in 1954 and played for the renowned coach John Wooden’s basketball team there while training for decathlons.
- For now, Gray and her peers are able to compete for Olympic berths only in the seven-event heptathlon, while the decathlon is restricted to men.
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A contest in science and math proving skill.
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。