喜樂美語
  1. 1奧運的；奧林匹克的

    Olympic means “to do with the Olympic Games”: the Olympic torch, Olympic athletes, an Olympic record. People stretch it a little — an “Olympic effort” means you tried as if a gold medal were waiting, even when no games are on. The everyday name for the event is “the Olympics”; Olympic is the describing word that sits in front of other nouns. It feels proud and official, and it almost always takes a capital O when it points at those Games.

組成From Ancient Greek Ὀλυμπικός (Olumpikós), from Ὄλυμπος (Ólumpos, Olympus).

同家族的字

  • Olympiadone occasion of the Games, from the same Greek root
  • Olympicsthe Games as a noun
  • Olympiathe ancient site
  • Olympusthe mountain the Greek adjective is built from
  • Olympianof Olympus, or of Olympic stature

原始詞典資料7 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。

Olympicadj/əˈlɪmpɪk/

  • 1

    Of or pertaining to the Olympic Games.

    • Olympic torch
    • Olympic champion
  • 2

    Of or pertaining to the Olympic Games.

    • Olympic swimming pool
    • I have heard it said that the young Chamber of Commerce have put on their future programme the project of building an Olympic swimming pool.
  • 3

    informalVery large or powerful.

    • Sid's stomach was practicing gagging motions for an eruption of absolutely Olympic proportions with his cheeks puffing quickly in and out to the beat.
    • That bed was Olympic, and held some of Julia's best-worst memories.
  • 4

    rareOf or pertaining to Olympus, a mountain of Thessaly, fabled as the seat of the gods.

  • 5

    rareDetached or liberated from petty concerns; godlike.

    • According to the late Dr. Otis T. Mason, who was my informant on this subject, he left as a memory of his visit a reputation for mental detachment that was Olympic in its character.
    • The little paper contained none of the customary lampoons on Bloods and Masters. It was Olympic in its aloofness from school politics.
  • 6

    rareOf or pertaining to the ancient city of Olympia.

Olympicnoun/əˈlɪmpɪk/

  • 1

    slangball-gamescricketgamesFive consecutive ducks.

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