单词 | in training |
释义 | > as lemmasin training b. in training: (a) pursuing a programme of physical activity, and often controlled diet, in preparation for athletic or sporting competition or to enhance fitness; (b) (with modifying adjective, esp. good, etc.) in a particular state of physical fitness as a result of such a programme. ΚΠ 1754 Connoisseur No. 30 180 It might perhaps become a fashion for gentlemen, who were fond of the sport [sc. boxing], to keep champions in training, put them in sweats, diet them, and breed up the human species with the same care as they do cocks and horses. 1761 London Mag. July 375/2 I intend to ride myself, and have been in training for that end these six weeks. 1807 Ld. Byron Let. 11 Aug. in Wks. (1835) I. 172 I swam in the Thames from Lambeth through the two bridges, Westminster and Blackfriars, a distance..of three miles! You see I am in excellent training in case of a squall at sea. a1845 T. Hood Compl. Poet. Wks. (1906) 339 The empty air he boxed with, a-la-Bitton, As if in training for a fight, long plann'd, With Nobody—for love—at No Man's Land! 1854 C. Dickens Hard Times i. ii. 7 A professed pugilist; always in training. 1871 L. Stephen Playground of Europe iv. 206 I was in good training. 1928 C. H. L. Johnston Famous Amer. Athletes of Today vi. 180 A man in poor training can argue a case in a law court as well, if not better, than an opponent who is in excellent physical condition. 1969 Ebony Jan. 81/1 While in training for the Griffith fight, Harris had to go to a hospital to have his tonsils removed. 1999 R. Berry Tragic Instance 98 Hamlet knows..that he is in excellent training. < as lemmas |
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