- 1
A short horizontal bar hung from two ropes, high in the air, that circus performers swing from and let go of to fly to another one. It is the classic circus apparatus — the trapeze artist swinging out over the crowd, the catcher hanging upside down by the knees, the moment where nobody is holding anything.
A short horizontal bar hung from two ropes, high in the air一根短短的橫桿，用兩條繩子高高地吊在空中 that circus performers swing from and let go of to fly to another one馬戲團表演者盪著它，然後放手飛向另一根 It is the classic circus apparatus這是馬戲團裡經典的道具 the trapeze artist swinging out over the crowd空中飛人表演者盪過觀眾頭頂上方 the catcher hanging upside down by the knees接手的人用膝蓋倒掛著 the moment where nobody is holding anything還有那個沒有任何人抓著任何東西的瞬間
"Flying trapeze" is the swinging, releasing kind; a "static trapeze" stays more or less still and the performer does shapes and holds on it.
"Flying trapeze" is the swinging, releasing kind「flying trapeze飛行空中飛人」是那種會盪、會放手的類型 a "static trapeze" stays more or less still and the performer does shapes and holds on it而「static trapeze靜止空中吊環」大致靜止不動，表演者在上面做出各種姿勢、撐住不放
The word is also used loosely for the act itself: "she does trapeze" means she performs on one, and you can also say "she's a trapeze artist." Outside the circus, people reach for the image whenever they want to talk about a risky handover — a business writer might say a company is "on the trapeze," hanging between one thing and the next with nothing underneath.
The word is also used loosely for the act itself這個字也可以鬆散地拿來指這個表演本身 "she does trapeze" means she performs on one「she does trapeze她表演空中飛人」意思是她在上面演出 and you can also say "she's a trapeze artist."你也可以說「she's a trapeze artist她是個空中飛人演員」 Outside the circus, people reach for the image whenever they want to talk about a risky handover在馬戲團之外，人們想講一個有風險的交接時，也會用這個畫面 a business writer might say a company is "on the trapeze," hanging between one thing and the next with nothing underneath財經作者可能會說一家公司「on the trapeze正盪在半空中」，懸在一件事和下一件事之間，下面什麼都沒有
There is a small sailing use too: on a fast , the trapeze is a wire the crew hangs from to lean right out over the water.
There is a small sailing use too還有一個小小的帆船用法 on a fast dinghy, the trapeze is a wire the crew hangs from to lean right out over the water在快速小帆船上，trapeze是一條鋼索，船員掛在上面，把身體整個探出船外、懸在水面上方
組成From French trapèze, from Latin trapezium, from a Greek word meaning "little table" — because a four-sided shape with the bar, the two ropes, and the beam above looks like the four legs and top of a small table. The same Greek root gives us the maths word trapezium/trapezoid.
原始詞典資料6 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。
Trapezename
- 1
A mountain on the Courbet Peninsula, Grande Terre, Kerguelen Islands of the French Southern and Antarctic Lands.
trapezenoun/tɹəˈpiːz/
- 1
archaicgeometrymathematicssciencesA trapezium.
- 2
A swinging horizontal bar suspended at each end by a rope, used by circus artists.
- 3
anatomymedicinesciencesThe trapezium bone.
- […] the distance between the top of the flexor retinaculum and an imaginary line drawn between the trapeze and the hamate.
- 4
A certain yo-yo trick.
- I begin a roller-coaster trick by throwing a trapeze, making the yo-yo loop around the finger of my left hand and then land back on the string.
trapezeverb/tɹəˈpiːz/
- 1
To swing on or as on a trapeze.
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。