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The lightest weight class in boxing and in mixed martial arts — fighters who weigh no more than about 47.6 (105 pounds). In fighting sports, competitors are sorted into groups by body weight so that matches are fair, and this is the very bottom of that ladder, below . The word works two ways. It names the class itself ("he fights at strawweight", "the strawweight title"), and it names the fighter ("she is a strawweight"). Today most people meet this word through women's MMA, where the strawweight division is one of the best-known; in the UFC the women's strawweight limit is 115 pounds, a bit heavier than the boxing number, because each organisation sets its own limits. That is worth knowing: the exact figure depends on which sport and which governing body you are talking about, but the meaning — "the lightest class" — never changes. "Straw" here is doing the work of "almost nothing", the same idea as in "light as a feather". It is a technical sports word; outside sport you will rarely see it.
草量級(拳擊/綜合格鬥最輕的量級,約 47.6 公斤以下;台灣體育新聞也直接寫「草量級」,比蠅量級還輕)
組成straw (dry grain stalks — famously light, almost weightless) + weight (how heavy someone is). Boxing names its classes this way: featherweight, flyweight, bantamweight, welterweight, heavyweight — each name is a picture of how light or heavy the fighter is.
同家族的字
- flyweightsame pattern: a light thing + weight; the class just above strawweight
- featherweightsame pattern: a light thing + weight
- heavyweightshares weight; the other end of the same ladder
- straw-colouredshares straw
原始詞典資料3 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。
strawweightnoun
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boxinggovernmenthobbiesminimumweight
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governmenthobbieslifestylethe weight class of 106-115 lbs, above atomweight and below flyweight
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A fighter in the above weight class
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。