- 1角鬥士
A gladiator was a man trained to fight, in front of a crowd, in ancient Rome — against other men or against wild animals — as a public show. The tidy school picture is a “soldier with a sword”. Though actually many were enslaved people, prisoners, or men whose job was to fight; they were not army soldiers in the usual sense, and a few free men chose the life. They fought in big stone arenas. The word comes from Latin gladiator, from gladius, “sword” — so the name is really “swordsman” more than “soldier”. Today people also stretch it: a tough public fighter in sport or can be called a gladiator, with a bit of drama. That is a later, looser use; the old Roman fighter is the home meaning.
From the word’s history
From Latin gladiātor, from gladius 'sword'.
源自拉丁文 gladiātor，字根 gladius「劍」：持劍搏鬥的人。
組成From Latin gladiātor, from gladius (“sword”).
同家族的字
- gladiusthe Roman short sword the name is built from
- gladiolusthe flower, named because its leaves look like little swords
原始詞典資料8 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。
gladiatornoun/ˈɡlædiˌeɪ̯tə/
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A person (professional or slave) who entertained the public by engaging in mortal combat with another, or with a wild animal.
- My mother prepared herself for the evening with the same somber deliberateness of the gladiators in Spartacus.
- And it's because something of the mundanely manual still adheres to darts that the players' heroic walk of honour from the green room to the oche is so incongruous. The fanfare begins, the strobes go wild, the crowds roar, hostesses wearing the sort of tinsel dresses that drove me crazy when I was eighteen escort the gladiator into the arena, only he's not a gladiator, he's a plumber.
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A disputant in a public controversy or debate.
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A professional boxer.
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Synonym of heelwalker (“Any of the order Mantophasmatodea of carnivorous, wingless insects that superficially resemble a cross between praying mantises and phasmids.”).
gladiatorverb/ˈɡlædiˌeɪ̯tə/
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To fight as entertainment for others.
- When the dance was done there was the cock-fight, or rather a century of cock-fights, to be reckoned with. For two hundred of these luckless creatures 'gladiatored' bravely, while an appreciative audience held matting up to its chin to keep from being bespattered with blood.
- The guards made me fight other prisoners for their own amusement. It was called gladiatoring.
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To compete in a public contest.
- I played very well as was evidenced in that I was the only participant in the entire six or seven days of wind gladiatoring who received a standing ovation from the orchestra, no less.
- It's himself gladiatoring on the harmonium.
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To debate or argue.
- He did his gladiatoring doubtless without malice, and from a purely sporting instinct — even as Mr. Punch gave the provocation.
- Quoting the accounts in both Time and Newsweek, they note that though the "defense attorney may have outwitted, outsparred, and even "out gladiatored" (another popular image in the trial coverage) his opponent, but he still lost the case.
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To act aggressively toward others.
- Why, thin, Mister Levi Slam, don't you think now that a volley poured into them haythen mosquitos beyant would put a stop to their gladiatoring a little?
- It's the Count von Eisenstein," says he, "that's come over to Eire for protection against the murdering English who are marauding and gladiatoring about Germany and would kill him if they could, but thanks be to God," says my bold McQuirk, "he'll be safe enough here and it'll be a good thing to have a friend of the Irish people living in Kilfenora Castle, though maybe you won't like it."
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