| 释义 |
▪ I. karate, n.|kəˈrɑːtiː|
[Jap., lit. ‘empty hand’.]
A Japanese system of unarmed combat in which hands and feet are used as weapons. Also attrib., esp. karate chop, a sharp slanting blow with the hand.
1955E. J. Harrison Fighting Spirit Japan (ed. 2) vii. 74 Karate resembles both jujutsu and judo. Ibid., A single karate technique..is capable of inflicting fatal injury upon its victim. 1962Movie Dec. 35/3 The interest of the karate techniques employed. 1964Guardian 11 Jan. 5/1 Her unsporting habit of dispatching people of both sexes with a carefully rehearsed Karate blow. 1964I. Fleming You only live Twice x. 127 Your judo and karate are special skills requiring years of practice. 1966J. Porter Sour Cream ix. 126 She probably knew the lot: unarmed combat, judo, karate. 1970New Yorker 5 Dec. 49 ‘I'm Larry Taylor,’ a breathless, sharp-featured young man said, offering a karate-chop handshake to Jay Steffy. 1971Ink 12 June 17/4 He floored the guard with a karate chop.
Hence ‖ karateka |kaˈraːtikaː|, an exponent or devotee of karate, a karate expert.
1966New Scientist 7 July 8/1 Karatekas, those fearsome exponents of the Japanese technique of self-defence called Karate..often display their prowess by breaking..bricks with their bare hands. 1972Straits Times (Malaysian ed.) 26 Sept. 3/2 Some 700 karatekas from the Police Reserve Unit..will be attending. 1972D. Lees Zodiac 122 The other guy was making like a karateka. 1973[see kata].
▪ II. karate, v.|kəˈrɑːtiː|
[f. prec.]
trans. To strike or beat with karate blows. Also karate-chop v., to strike with a karate chop.
1966T. Pynchon Crying of Lot 49 v. 134 ‘I'm unarmed. You can frisk me.’ ‘While you karate-chop me in the spine, no thank you.’ 1968New Yorker 14 Sept. 129 A wolf was bugging me, so I..karated him, and called the fuzz. 1970Time 11 May 62 The wife..can karate-chop hell out of her husband. |