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In ancient Rome, a gladiator was a man who fought other men, or wild animals, as a public show. Crowds came to watch, the way people watch a sport. Gladiatorial is the describing word for that world: gladiatorial combat is that kind of fight; a gladiatorial arena is the place. The shows were entertainment, though actually they were often cruel, and many fighters were enslaved or prisoners, not willing stars. Writers still use the word when a contest feels like a brutal public fight — a gladiatorial debate, a gladiatorial battle for a job — even though nobody has a sword. It is a fairly formal, slightly dramatic word: history books and newspapers, not everyday chat.
角鬥的、鬥士的（古羅馬公開搏鬥那種）
組成From Latin gladiātōrius + English -al. By the look of the English, gladiator + -ial (“of a gladiator”). The older Latin piece is gladius, “sword”.
同家族的字
- gladiatorthe fighter; gladiatorial describes his world and that kind of combat
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。
gladiatorialadj
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Of or pertaining to a gladiator.
- Gladiatorial entertainment was common in ancient Rome.
- "And all the better for yourself if you never enter the gladiatorial arena of public life: you will sacrifice time, health, and talents; you will be paragraphed—probably pelted; you will die of an inflammation, or a consumption; and leave it a debatable point to historians, what was the extent of the injury you did your country."
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。