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单词 sandow
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Sandown.

/ˈsandəʊ/
Etymology: < the name of Eugen Sandow (1867–1925), Russo-German exponent of physical culture.
Used as the type of a strong man; also applied attributively and in the possessive to exercises, an exercise machine, and societies endorsed by Sandow. Also figurative.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > gymnastics > exercise > [adjective] > specific systems
callisthenic1826
callisthenical1831
Sandow1898
Muller's exercises1910
aerobic1942
anaerobic1942
cardio1972
survival1972
high-impact1984
low-impact1985
society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > gymnastics > exercise > [noun] > physical culture or body-building > teacher or exponent
bodybuilder1890
physical culturist1894
Sandow1898
musclehead1923
muscle boy1956
1898 Physical Culture I. 112/2 If ‘Cantab’ had proposed the theory that Sandow's system would have produced as good a ten-stone oar as Oxford training made of Mr. Kent, he would have stated a definitely arguable proposition; for if Sandow's system is to be applied to rowing at all, this is one of the results we shall immediately ask it to produce.
1905 W. B. Yeats Let. July (1954) iii. 454 I have got into my routine here... To this I have added Sandow exercises twice daily.
1911 L. Stone Jonah i. ix. 100 He threw down the hammer with the air of a Sandow.
1914 C. Mackenzie Sinister St. II. iii. ii. 531 They talked instead of Sandow exercises and mountain-climbing.
1932 A. Huxley in D. H. Lawrence Lett. p. xiii How bitterly he [sc. Lawrence] loathed the Wilhelm-Meisterish view of love as an education, as a means to culture, a Sandow-exerciser for the soul.
1947 N. Coward Peace in our Time i. iv. 51 Nora: You're thinner than you were when—when you went away. Stevie: I'm Sandow to what I was when I left the prison camp.
1947 C. Gray Contingencies i. 21 A complete fallacy..that it is possible for aesthetic sensibility to be imparted..by any such methods of spiritual jerks or intellectual Sandow exercisers.
1952 D. Davie Purity of Diction in Eng. Verse 175 He [sc. G. M. Hopkins] has no respect for the language, but gives it Sandow-exercises.
1962 Listener 2 Aug. 166/2 The founding of hundreds of Sandow physical-culture clubs throughout England and Wales.
1965 F. Sargeson Mem. Peon v. 116 Anyone who engaged in Sandow exercises.

Derivatives

ˈSandowism n. the principles of physical culture advocated by Sandow.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > gymnastics > exercise > [noun] > physical culture or body-building
culture1628
physical culture1787
bodybuilding1896
Sandowisma1930
a1930 D. H. Lawrence Phoenix (1936) 656 Physical training and Sandowism altogether is a ridiculous and puerile business.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1982; most recently modified version published online March 2019).
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