billiards

• n. 台球，桌球；彈子戲

詞源同bole, 樹幹。指用樹幹削成的台球杆。

billiards

billiards: [16] Billiard comes from French billard, which is the name not only of the game, but also of the cue it is played with. And the cue is the clue to the word’s history, for it comes from French bille ‘tree trunk’, hence ‘long cylindrical bit of wood’. The import of the -ard suffix is not altogether clear, but another suffix used with bille was the diminutive -ette, from which English got billet ‘piece of wood’ [15] (not to be confused with billet ‘assignment to lodgings’; see BILL). Bille itself came from medieval Latin billa or billus, which may have been of Celtic origin.
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billiards (n.)

1590s, from French billiard, originally the word for the wooden cue stick, a diminutive from Old French bille "stick of wood," from Medieval Latin billia "tree, trunk," possibly from Gaulish (compare Irish bile "tree trunk").

1. a game of billiards

一局台球賽

來自《權威詞典》

2. John used to divert himself with billiards.

約翰過去總打台球自娛.

來自《簡明英漢詞典》

3. Jones simply walked over Brown at billiards.

在彈子遊戲中,瓊斯不費吹灰之力贏了布朗.

來自《簡明英漢詞典》

4. Playing billiards is my chief recreation.

打台球是我主要的娛樂活動.

來自《簡明英漢詞典》

5. Billiards isn't popular in here.

這裏不流行台球.

來自《現代英漢綜合大詞典》