Athlete
['æθliːt] or ['æθlit]
解释:
(n.) One who contended for a prize in the public games of ancient Greece or Rome.
(n.) Any one trained to contend in exercises requiring great physical agility and strength; one who has great activity and strength; a champion.
(n.) One fitted for, or skilled in, intellectual contests; as, athletes of debate.
杰弗里校对
同义词及近义词：
n. Combatant, champion, contender for victory.
菲力克斯校对
解释:
n. a contender for victory in feats of strength: one vigorous in body or mind. The form Athlē′ta survived till the later half of the 18th century.—adj. Athlet′ic relating to athletics: strong vigorous.—adv. Athlet′ically.—n. Athleticism (ath-let′i-sizm) the act of engaging in athletic exercises: devotion to athletics.—n.pl. Athlet′ics the art of wrestling running &c.: athletic sports.
布莱恩录入
娱乐性解释：
A dignified bunch of muscles, unable to split wood or sift the ashes.
欧内斯廷编辑
例句:
- As she walked beside Archer with her long swinging gait her face wore the vacant serenity of a young marble athlete. 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
- Though but ten years old he was fully as strong as the average man of thirty, and far more agile than the most practiced athlete ever becomes. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- Not forgetting Maurice, as the athlete Milo of the third, replied the poet, raising his glass. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
- God, poet, athlete; you are all flattering yourselves, but no one says a good word for me. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
- Then we may assume that our athletes will be able to fight with two or three times their own number? 柏拉图. 理想国.
- And will the habit of body of our ordinary athletes be suited to them? 柏拉图. 理想国.
- And another consideration has just occurred to me: You will remember that our young men are to be warrior athletes? 柏拉图. 理想国.
- Views of an ox trotting, a wild bull on the charge, greyhounds and deer running and birds flying in mid-air were shown, also athletes in various positions. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- But our warrior athletes must be wide-awake dogs, and must also be inured to all changes of food and climate. 柏拉图. 理想国.
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