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A luge is a tiny sled with metal blades instead of wheels. You lie on your back, feet first, and slide down a steep ice track. People also say luge for the Olympic sport itself. The rider steers with small body moves, not a steering wheel, and the run is extremely fast. You mostly meet the word in winter-sport news, not in everyday chat. You can use it as a verb too: to luge is to ride one. Though actually, a luge is not a toboggan you sit up on, and not a bobsleigh with a team inside a shell — those are cousins in the snow, but different machines.
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組成The noun was borrowed from Swiss French or Franco-Provençal luge. That came from older Latin forms (scludia, then sclodia), and before that a Celtic/Gaulish word for sliding, possibly from a very old root meaning 'to slide or be slippery'. If that last step is right, it is related to sled and sleigh — but that link is not certain, so treat it as 'probably'. The verb comes from the noun.
原始詞典資料5 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。
lugenoun/luː(d)ʒ/
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A racing sled for one or two people that is ridden with the rider or riders lying on their back.
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The sport of racing on luges.
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A piece of bone, ice or other material with a channel down which a drink (usually alcoholic) can be poured into someone's mouth.
- The luge was a block of ice, sometimes up to three-and-one-half feet long, which had narrow grooves etched into it. Alcohol was poured onto one end of the luge and as the alcohol traveled down the narrow grooves in the block of ice, it was cooled and then ran directly into the mouth of the waiting drinker on the other end.
- Kegs of beer were set up around every corner. There was also a liquor luge—a giant block of ice, slanted at a 45-degree angle and carved with a convenient path for shots to be poured down and into the mouths of anyone who was thirsty.
lugeverb/luː(d)ʒ/
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To ride a luge; also, to participate in the sport of luge.
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To slide or slip down a slope.
- [Norman] Ollestad was only 11 when a small plane carrying him, his father and his father's girlfriend to a ski race slammed into the San Gabriel Mountains west of Los Angeles during a blizzard. […] After the girlfriend luged to her death halfway down the icy slope, Ollestad had to pick his way down alone, following the trail of her blood.
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。