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Pugilistic is an adjective. It means about boxing, or like a boxer's. A pugilistic stance is the way a fighter stands. A pugilistic career is a life in the ring. Writers sometimes stretch it to a , fighting manner in speech or in prose, which is a looser, slightly use. Though actually, it is not a noun: you are not a pugilistic. The person is a . The -ic ending turns the person-word into a describing-word, the same way artistic describes art. It is formal, a bit old-fashioned, at home in newspapers and biographies. Everyday English would say boxing as an adjective: a boxing career, a boxer's stance.
拳擊的、拳擊手般的
原始詞典資料2 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。
pugilisticadj
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In the manner of a pugilist.
- It was no time for pugilistic chivalry, and my brother laid him quiet with a kick, and gripped the collar of the man who pulled at the slender lady's arm.
- Mr. Christie, who as a presidential candidate has frequently suppressed his most pugilistic instincts, cast off any restraint and did what he does best: slice and slash.
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Fighting with the fists.
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。