| 单词 | playing field |
| 释义 | > as lemmasplaying field playing field n. a piece of ground, frequently attached to a school or college, on which sport is played (in earlier use spec. with reference to Eton); also figurative (see also level playing field n. at level adj. and adv. Additions). ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > place for sports or games > [noun] ring?a1400 rink1489 game place1542 playing field1583 rink-room1594 stadium1603 cirque1644 xystus1664 amphitheatre1710 field1730 grandstand1754 chunk-yard1773 sports ground1862 park1867 sports field1877 pitch1895 close1898 sports centre1907 padang1909 sports stadium1911 bowl1913 field house1922 sportsdrome1951 sports complex1957 astrodome1964 dome1965 sportsplex1974 1583–4 Eton Coll. Accts. in R. Willis & J. W. Clark Archit. Hist. Univ. Cambr. (1886) I. 464 Trees..aboute the playinge fildes. 1736 H. Walpole Corr. (1820) I. 6 The playing fields at Eton. 1898 J. A. Gibbs Cotswold Village 28 Pass on to Eton... Mark well the playing fields. 1979 R. Barnard Posthumous Papers III. 26 There were no playing-fields ethics in the lower reaches of Fleet Street. 1992 Canad. Geographic July 34/3 An economically-depressed kilometre-square patch of Halifax bounded by the harbour, Citadel Hill and the grassy playing fields of the Halifax Commons. < as lemmas |
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