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A leotard is a tight one-piece garment that covers the body from the shoulders down to the top of the legs, a little like a woman's , but people wear it for dance, gymnastics, or exercise, not for swimming. It is often worn with . Women and girls wear leotards most often; men in ballet or gymnastics may wear them too. In a dance studio or gym the word is ordinary; if you never go to those places, you may hardly hear it. It is named after a real person, a French acrobat in the 1800s, Jules Léotard, who performed in clothing of this kind. The name stuck to the garment.
連身舞衣;體操衣
組成Named after the French acrobat Jules Léotard (1838–1870). It is a person's name turned into a clothing word, not a word built from smaller English pieces.
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。
leotardnoun/ˈliː.ə.tɑːd/
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A one-piece skintight garment with or without sleeves and without legs (often worn by gymnasts, acrobats, wrestlers, female swimmers, etc.)
- Tomorrow is the day. Marie makes her first trip out of this notebook and into the world. I'm off to buy a leotard.
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。