核心畫面
Picture the medieval original: armoured knights on in a roped-off field, wheeling their horses around and charging one opponent after another to show off their skill before a watching crowd. The modern meaning keeps that shape — you keep facing challenger after challenger, round after round, until only one is left standing.
可以想成中世紀那個原型畫面：披甲的騎士在圍起來的場地上，一次次勒轉馬頭、輪流衝向對手，在觀眾面前一場接一場地較量。現…更多收起
可以想成中世紀那個原型畫面：披甲的騎士在圍起來的場地上，一次次勒轉馬頭、輪流衝向對手，在觀眾面前一場接一場地較量。現代的用法還是同一個形狀——你要一輪一輪地面對下一個對手，直到最後只剩一個人站著。From the word’s history
From Old French torneiement / tornoier 'to joust', ultimately from Latin tornare 'to turn' — the word literally names the knights turning and wheeling their horses in the lists. That 'turning to face the next opponent' is still the picture inside every tournament.
來自古法語 torneiement／tornoier（比武、馬上槍術），最遠可追到拉丁語 tornare「轉」——這個字本來就在描寫騎士在場上勒馬回轉、掉頭迎向下一個對手。那個「轉身面對下一個」的動作，到今天還藏在每一場 tournament 裡。
etymonline.com/word/tournament (Old French torneiement, from Latin tornare 'to turn')
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。
tournamentnoun/ˈtʊənəmənt/
- 1
historicalDuring the Middle Ages, a series of battles and other contests designed to prepare knights for war.
- 2
A series of games; either the same game played many times, or a succession of games related by a single theme; played competitively to determine a single winning team or individual.
- England secured their place at Euro 2012 with a scrambled draw in Montenegro - but Wayne Rooney was sent off and will miss the start of the tournament.
- 3
graph-theorymathematicssciencesA digraph obtained by assigning a direction to each edge in an undirected complete graph.
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。