gymnasium

• n. 體育館；健身房

來自希臘語gymnos, 裸體，裸體健身者，現指健身館。因在古希臘時期，人們習慣裸體鍛煉，以展示人體之美。參照各古希臘裸體雕像。

gymnasium

gymnasium: [16] Greek gumnós meant ‘naked’. It was customary in ancient times for athletes to train naked, and so the verb gumnázein came to mean ‘train, practise’ – particularly by doing exercises (whence English gymnast [16]). From the verb was derived the noun gumnásion, which Latin borrowed as gymnasium ‘school’. This academic sense has never caught on to any extent in English (although it is the word’s only application in German); we have preferred to go back to the original athletic connotations.

gymnasium (n.)

1590s, "place of exercise," from Latin gymnasium "school for gymnastics," from Greek gymnasion "public place where athletic exercises are practiced; gymnastics school," in plural, "bodily exercises," from gymnazein "to exercise or train," literally or figuratively, literally "to train naked," from gymnos "naked," from a metathesis of PIE *nogw-mo-, suffixed form of *nogw- "naked" (see naked).

A feature of all ancient Greek communities, at first it was merely an open space, later with extensive facilities and including training for the mind as well as the body. Hence its use in German from 15c. as a name for "high school" (more or less paralleling a sense also in Latin); in English it has remained purely athletic. For the "continental high school sense," English in 19c. sometimes used gymnastical as an adjective, gymnasiast for a student.

1. Our school has a big gymnasium.

我們學校有座大型體育館.

來自《簡明英漢詞典》

2. The game will be staged in the gymnasium.

競賽將在體育館舉行.

來自《現代漢英綜合大詞典》

3. The basketball nets hung down from the ceiling at either end of the gymnasium.

籃筐分別從體育館兩頭的天花板上懸吊下來。

來自柯林斯例句

4. The daily tariff includes accommodation and unlimited use of the pool and gymnasium.

日常費用包括住宿以及遊泳池和健身房的不限時使用。

來自柯林斯例句

5. It took us several hours to get the gymnasium ready for the ball.

我們花了幾個小時把體育館收拾好供舞會用.

來自《簡明英漢詞典》