club

• n. 俱樂部，社團；夜總會；棍棒；（撲克牌中的）梅花
• vt. 用棍棒打；募集
• vi. 集資；組成俱樂部
• adj. 俱樂部的
• n. (Club)人名；(英)克拉布

來自PIE*gel,堆積，成塊，詞源同clump,globe.本義為大塊狀的物件，後指短木棍。因早期 撲克牌花色形似木棍而得名，但現在多使用法國trefoil（三葉草）形狀，漢語譯為梅花。後 引申詞義一群人的集會活動，即俱樂部。

club

club: [13] The original meaning of club is ‘thick heavy stick for hitting people’; it was borrowed from Old Norse klubba. The sense ‘association’ developed in the 17th century, apparently originally as a verb. To club together seems to have been based on the notion of ‘forming into a mass like the thickened end of a club’: ‘Two such worlds must club together and become one’, Nathaniel Fairfax, The bulk and selvedge of the world 1674. Hence the noun club, which originally signified simply a ‘get-together’, typically in a tavern, but by the end of the 17th century seems to have become more of a formalized concept, with members and rules.

club (n.)

c. 1200, "thick stick used as a weapon," from Old Norse klubba "cudgel" or a similar Scandinavian source (compare Swedish klubba, Danish klubbe), assimilated from Proto-Germanic *klumbon, related to clump (n.). Old English words for this were sagol, cycgel. Specific sense of "bat used in games" is from mid-15c.

The club suit in the deck of cards (1560s) bears the correct name (Spanish basto, Italian bastone), but the pattern adopted on English cards is the French trefoil. Compare Danish klőver, Dutch klaver "a club at cards," literally "a clover."

The social club (1660s) apparently evolved from this word from the verbal sense "gather in a club-like mass" (1620s), then, as a noun, "association of people" (1640s).

We now use the word clubbe for a sodality in a tavern. [John Aubrey, 1659]

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Admission to membership of clubs is commonly by ballot. Clubs are now an important feature of social life in all large cities, many of them occupying large buildings containing reading-rooms, libraries, restaurants, etc. [Century Dictionary, 1902]

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I got a good mind to join a club and beat you over the head with it. [Rufus T. Firefly]

Club soda is by 1881, originally a proprietary name (Cantrell & Cochrane, Dublin). Club sandwich recorded by 1899, apparently as a type of sandwich served in clubs. Club car is from 1890, American English, originally one well-appointed and reserved for members of a club run by the railway company; later of any railway car fitted with chairs instead of benches, and other amenities (1917). Hence club for "class of fares between first-class and transit" (1978).

The club car is one of the most elaborate developments of the entire Commuter idea. It is a comfortable coach, which is rented to a group of responsible men coming either from a single point or a chain of contiguous points. The railroad charges from $250 to $300 a month for the use of this car in addition to the commutation fares, and the "club" arranges dues to cover this cost and the cost of such attendants and supplies as it may elect to place on its roving house. [Edward Hungerford, "The Modern Railroad," 1911]

club (v.)

"to hit with a club," 1590s, from club (v.). Meaning "gather in a club-like mass" is from 1620s. Related: Clubbed; clubbing.

CLUB, verb (military). -- In manoeuvring troops, so to blunder the word of command that the soldiers get into a position from which they cannot extricate themselves by ordinary tactics. [Farmer & Henley]

1. The club has moved its meeting to Saturday, January 22nd.

俱樂部已經把會議日期改到1月22號，星期六。

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2. This season the club has had 73,500 season-ticket holders.

本賽季該俱樂部已經有73,500名持有季票的觀眾。

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3. People at the club think very highly of him.

俱樂部的人很佩服他。

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4. This club has grown in stature over the last 20 years.

這家俱樂部在過去20年間知名度大增。

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5. "Actually, most of my tennis is at club level," he admitted.

“說實話，我的網球基本上屬於業餘水平，”他承認說。

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