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Foosball is table football: the game with rows of little players on rods, fixed to a table, where you twist the rods to kick a small ball. In American English this is the usual name; British speakers more often say table football. The sense here is the game treated as a sport — clubs, tournaments, serious practice — not only a casual game in a café. In Taiwan you will see the table in night markets, restaurants, and student spaces; people play for fun, but some players train hard. Informal. Say it FOOZ-ball.
手足球(桌上的足球台)。台灣夜市、餐廳都這麼叫;當成運動比賽時也可能說桌上足球。
組成From German Fußball, which was itself built to copy English football (Fuß is “foot”, Ball is “ball”). English borrowed that German word and spelled it so English readers can say it: foosball.
同家族的字
- footballGerman Fußball was made to match English football; foosball is that word brought into English for the table game
原始詞典資料1 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。
foosballnoun/ˈfuːsˌbɔːl/
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table soccer (US), table football (UK)
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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。