- 1決鬥；（比喻）一對一的激烈對決
A duel is a formal, planned fight between two people, historically often with swords or guns, to settle an argument about honor — this was a real, if illegal, practice in earlier centuries in places like Europe. Today the word is mostly used in stories, history, and games, or more loosely to describe any intense one-on-one contest — "a duel between the two chess champions."
From the word’s history
From Medieval Latin duellum, Old Latin 'war', later read as 'duel' by association with duo 'two'.
源自拉丁文 duellum「戰爭」，後被聯想到 duo「二」而成「決鬥」。
原始詞典資料4 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。
duelnoun/ˈˈd͡ʒuːəl/
- 1
Arranged, regular combat between two private persons, often over a matter of honor.
- I have often thought since, how different my fate might have been, had I not fallen in love with Nora at that early age; and had I not flung the wine in Quin’s face, and so brought on the duel.
- Of course, not all the Railway Members were men of such talent. One member was "chiefly eminent as a whist player," and another was known for his duel with a fellow M.P. fought at Wormwood Scrubs in 1840.
- 2
Historically, the wager of battle (judicial combat).
- 3
Any battle or struggle between two contending persons, forces, groups, or ideas.
- a sniper duel
- But it leaves them with a few destroyers, the American destroyer force is falling back, and then you have the two cruiser lines with their respective battleships coming in for the big duel.
duelverb/ˈˈd͡ʒuːəl/
- 1
To engage in a battle.
- The two dogs were duelling for the bone.
- The country’s fencing federation has officially recognised lightsaber duelling as a competitive sport, granting the weapon from George Lucas’s space saga the same status as the foil, epee and sabre, the traditional blades used at the Olympics.
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。