喜樂美語

核心畫面

Start from the plain compound: a ball you move with your foot, in a team game on a field. That one picture — a kicking-ball game — both names the game and, by a natural slide, names the ball itself.

可以想成：就是字面拆開的「foot（腳）+ ball（球）」——在球場上用腳踢的球，兩隊人比賽。這個「用腳踢的球賽」…更多收起可以想成：就是字面拆開的「foot（腳）+ ball（球）」——在球場上用腳踢的球，兩隊人比賽。這個「用腳踢的球賽」的畫面，一方面是這項運動的名字，一方面很自然地也滑去指那顆球本身。

Two branches

球賽本身

這一族指的是運動本身。同一個名字在不同地方落在不同規則的球賽上：英式的圓球用腳踢，美式的橢圓球可抱可踢，但骨架都是「兩隊、十一人、把球送進對方球門」。

the game of soccer · noun · A1

A game where two teams of eleven kick a round ball into a goal.

足球

那顆球

從球賽的名字很自然地滑到比賽用的那顆球——就像很多球類運動一樣，同一個字既指比賽，也指手上那顆球。

the ball itself · noun · A1

The ball that is used in these games.

足球（球本身）

原始詞典資料14 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。

footballnoun/ˈfʊt.bɔːl/

  • 1

    A sport played on foot in which teams attempt to get a ball into a goal or zone defended by the other team.

    • Roman and medieval football matches were more violent than any modern type of football.
    • [page 104] [T]he Footeball play, […] could not poſſibly haue grovvne to this greatnes, that it is novv at, not haue bene ſo much vſed, as it is in all places, if it had not had great helpes, both to health and ſtrength, […] [page 105] [T]he Footeball ſtrengtheneth and bravvneth the vvhole body, and by prouoking ſuperfluities dovvnevvard, it diſchargeth the head, and vpper partes, it is good for the bovvells, and to driue dovvne the ſtone and grauell from both the bladder and kidneies. It helpeth vveake hammes, by much mouing, beginning at a meane, and ſimple ſhankes by thickening of the fleſh, no leſſe than riding doth. Yet raſh running & to much force oftẽtimes [oftentimes] breaketh ſome invvard cõduit [conduit], & bringeth ruptures.
  • 2

    The ball used in any game called "football".

    • The player kicked the football.
    • Hans Moleman Production presents: Man getting hit by football.
  • 3

    Association football, also called soccer: a game in which two teams each contend to get a round ball into the other team's goal primarily by kicking the ball.

    • Each team scored three goals when they played football.
    • “Our research has shown that heading is rare in youth football matches, so this guidance is a responsible development to our grassroots coaching without impacting the enjoyment that children of all ages take from playing the game.”
  • 4

    American football: a game played on a field 100 yards long and 53 1/3 yards wide in which two teams of 11 players attempt to get an ovoid ball to the end of each other's territory.

    • Each team scored two touchdowns when they played football.
    • According to Newsday, he took the ball to his team’s equipment staff, which then informed head coach Chuck Pagano, who told general manager Ryan Grigson, who told NFL director of football operations Mike Kensil, who told the officials on the field.
  • 5

    Canadian football: a game played on a field 110 yards long and 65 yards wide in which two teams of 12 players attempt to get an ovoid ball to the end of each other's territory.

    • They played football in the snow.
  • 6

    Australian rules football.

    • The weekend after AFL football chief Simon Lethlean made it clear players who jumper punched or punched opponents in the stomach would most likely be suspended, Jones was charged with striking Hawthorn’s Luke Breust.
  • 7

    Gaelic football: a field game played with similar rules to hurling, but using hands and feet rather than a stick, and a ball, similar to, yet smaller than a soccer ball.

  • 8

    Any form of rugby.

    • There's another game of football and there's a gold team and Mum and Dad are both on it!
另外 5 個記錄的用法
  • 9

    Any form of rugby.

  • 10

    Any form of rugby.

  • 11

    Practice of these particular games, or techniques used in them.

    • Both teams played open, attacking football and in the first thirty minutes, the referee barely blew his whistle.
    • Sloppy football continued after the first break, as the more composed Brunswick controlled the play by relying on the throw-pass: forty times to Williamstown's twenty-eight.
  • 12

    An item of discussion, particularly in a back-and-forth manner

    • That budget item became a political football.
  • 13

    slanggovernmentmilitarypoliticsThe leather briefcase containing classified nuclear war plans which is always near the US President.

    • The aide rides, along with the president's physician, in the “control car,” third in line in the motorcade. He is responsible for the football (or “black box” or “black bag”), a briefcase containing the codes and targeting information the president would require to order or authorize a nuclear attack.
    • After the lunch broke, we walked to the Trump-Putin press conference, which started about 6 p.m. As Kelly observed to me at some point, there were now two military aides in the room, each carrying his country's nuclear football.

footballverb/ˈfʊt.bɔːl/

  • 1

    rareTo play football.

    • It was an announcement of the outbreak of what is now termed World War I. Some of us lads were footballing when we heard the news. It left us bewildered.
    • You walked up our road, passed the elms that bordered our park until Dutch disease killed them in the early 1970s, diagonally crossed its field where we footballed, turned right at the drinking fountain and cattle trough […]

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。