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    A racecourse is a grass track where horses race, and often the whole grounds around it: the stands, the betting windows, the place where the horses walk before the start. In British English this is the usual word. Americans more often say racetrack. Though actually course here does not mean a class at school; it means the path the horses follow. You go to a racecourse to watch the , not to study. A running track for people is a different place.

    賽馬場(英式說法;美式較常說 racetrack)

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組成From race + course. Course here means the path, not a school class.

同家族的字

  • racethe first half: the horse race
  • coursethe second half: the path the horses run
  • racecardshares race: the list of races at that meeting
  • racehorseshares race: the horse that runs there

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。

racecoursenoun

  • 1

    A course over which races are run.

    • At one point they made a racecourse around the Sepulchre and some, almost in a state of nudity, danced about with frantic gestures, yelling and screaming as if possessed,
  • 2

    A racetrack where horse races are run.

    • By Savernake the train was 4½min early; we then had the thrill of sweeping through Newbury at 95 m.p.h.—and one wonders if any of the punters on the neighbouring racecourse had any eyes for our flying cavalcade as we swept by, for it was a race day—[...].

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