| 释义 |
‖ faena Bullfighting.|faˈena|
[Sp., lit. ‘task’.]
(See quot. 1957.)
1927E. Hemingway Men without Women (1928) 43 He looked at the bull, planning his faena, his work with the red cloth that was..to make him manageable. 1957Times 12 Oct. 7/7 Getting by in the bull-ring means giving the bull the least possible chance of making contact—by..cutting short a whole faena (the part when the matador plays the bull alone with the red cloth). 1961H. Thomas Spanish Civil War xx. 174 The amputation of the ear of a bull in honour of a matador, following a very successful faena. |