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单词 tournament
释义
tournamenttour‧na‧ment /ˈtʊənəmənt, ˈtɔː- $ ˈtɜːr-, ˈtʊr-/ ●●○ noun [countable] Word Origin
WORD ORIGINtournament
Origin:
1100-1200 Old French torneiement, from torneier; ➔ TOURNEY
Examples
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
  • an international golf tournament
  • Telford won the local five-a-side football tournament.
  • There's a volleyball tournament at Sunset Park which begins today.
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
  • Another one down, another step closer to the tournament.
  • But a dry day would bring bigger crowds and add to the excitement of the vital third round of the tournament.
  • But Sampras is 14-3 lifetime against Courier and he must believe the tournament is his to win.
  • For example, he won the Phoenix Thunderbird tournament in 1950 and received $ 300 under the table.
  • For just a moment there, tournament golf had taken its toll: Saavedra had lost the head.
  • He no longer expects to win major tournaments but he settles for creating a noisy sensation in going as far as he can go.
  • The tournament, played at Bangor Rugby Club, has become one of the highlights of the Ulster rugby season.
  • The trouble is that the finest tournament starts appear in photographs to be hitting late.
Thesaurus
Longman Language Activatorsomeone who likes competing
an organized event in which people try to do an activity or sport better than other people, especially in order to win a prize: · He was awarded first prize in the National Poetry Competition.· A spelling bee is a competition in which people try to correctly spell words.win a competition: · A student from St. Paul won the speechwriting competition.enter a competition (=be in a competition): · Enter our free competition and win a weekend in Paris.competition to do something: · They're holding a competition to come up with a name for the new bridge.hold/have a competition: · The company developing the site had held a competition to find a master-planner.
an important sports event in which players or teams play against each other to decide who is the best in an area, the country, or the world: · The sixth game of the World Chess Championship will be broadcast tonight on Channel 6.win a championship: · At 17, he was the youngest player to win the Men's Tennis Championship.state/national/world etc championship: · Gutierrez said he has a plan he hopes will carry him through to his first world championship.
a competition in a sport or game in which each player or team plays a series of games until one person or team wins: · an international golf tournament· There's a volleyball tournament at Sunset Park which begins today.win a tournament: · Telford won the local five-a-side football tournament.
a competition in which a person or team does an activity, and a group of judges decide which of them is the best: · The event, held every four years in Fort Worth, Texas, is the country's leading piano contest.enter a contest: · Jake always enters the arm-wrestling contest at the local fair.enter somebody in/for a contest: · Harriet decided to enter Henry in the cute baby contest.win a contest: · Jack always wins the pub's karaoke contest.beauty contest (=a contest in which judges decide who is the most beautiful woman): · She won several beauty contests when she was in her early twenties.
WORD SETS
bareback, adjectivebay, nounbit, nounblacksmith, nounblaze, nounblinkered, adjectiveblinkers, nounbloodstock, nounbridle, nounbridle, verbcanter, verbcard, nouncrop, noundressage, nounequestrian, adjectiveequine, adjectiveevens, nounfarrier, nounfence, nounfield, nounfilly, noungallop, verbgallop, noungee-gee, noungelding, noungirth, noungroom, noungymkhana, nounhack, verbhack, nounhalter, nounhand, nounhigh-spirited, adjectivehorsemanship, nounhorse-riding, nounjib, verbjockey, nounjodhpurs, nounjoust, verbjump, nounlad, nounlength, nounmiler, nounmount, nounnag, nounneigh, verbnobble, verbnosebag, nounodds, nounofftrack, adjectiveostler, nounpack trip, nounpaddock, nounpair, nounpalomino, nounparimutuel, nounpommel, nounpony-trekking, nounprance, verbracecourse, nounracegoer, nounracehorse, nounrace meeting, nounracetrack, nounracing, nounrein, nounremount, verbride, verbriding, nounroan, nounrodeo, nounsaddle, nounsaddle, verbsaddle bag, nounshoe, nounshoe, verbshow jumping, nounshy, verbskittish, adjectivespur, nounspur, verbstable, nounstable, verbstable boy, nounstabling, nounstarting gate, nounstarting price, nounstayer, nounsteeplechase, nounsteward, nounstirrup, nountack, nounthoroughbred, nounthree-day event, nountip, nountipster, nountournament, nountout, verbtrot, nounturf accountant, noununseat, verbwater jump, nounwhoa, interjectionwinning post, nounyearling, noun
Collocations
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
(=a chess competition)· Ray's taking part in a chess tournament.
· She decided to enter the golf tournament.
· The course is suitable for modern world-class championship golf.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE
· The organisers hope the unofficial event will emulate last weekend's annual rugby sevens tournament.· The annual charity tournament will be held at the Maryland SoccerPlex in Germantown....· Eighteen teams competed in the annual tournament over three nights at Barlaston.
· Most big tournaments have a tent in which the major manufacturers of equipment and clothing display their wares.· It's hoped to attract a top professional and a very big money tournament.
· Boris Becker and Ivan Lendl have both withdrawn from the world indoor tournament in Rotterdam.· She will appear at the Paris Open, a small indoor tournament, next week.
· They were the first country to organise an international sevens tournament, which they did to celebrate their Centenary in 1973.· With the white pieces Yusupov copied an opening that had brought Karpov success in an international tournament game last year.· It would be great to take the lads to international tournaments, because playing against foreign teams brings them on no end.· Blue Coat won the Fair Play award at an under-18 international badminton tournament in Barcelona despite not winning a match.· Later, the game becomes popular abroad and international tournaments are held.
· He no longer expects to win major tournaments but he settles for creating a noisy sensation in going as far as he can go.· Reputations can be difficult to shake in tennis, especially when the major tournaments bring familiar habits to life.· I haven't played a major tournament for ages.· If it wins, it will have secured all major golf tournaments around the world.· No other person, female or male, managed to do that well in the major tournaments of 1990.
· Every game the team wins brings the Ducks closer to a return trip to the NCAA tournament.· She figures Jody is looking for the pat answers about working harder and going to the NCAA tournament.· She wants to make it back to the NCAA tournament.· The NCAA basketball tournaments have a winner-take-all, one-loss-and-you're-gone format.· Nine of the last ten years, the Washington team has made it to the NCAA tournament.· All you have to do is win the NCAA basketball tournament pool.· This March, maybe more than ever, we need the euphoria and emotion of the conference and NCAA tournaments.· The NCAA tournament is far from their thoughts.
· The 21 year old table tennis star competes in the Olympic qualifying tournament.
· The best final came in the under-10 open tournament.
· Today's professional has two assistants, reflecting an increased amount of teaching, shop sales, professional tournaments and playing requests.· Harley then insisted that the tournament director, who is the ultimate arbiter at professional tournaments, be summoned.
· Four more teams will emerge from an additional qualifying tournament in June.· She won the preliminary qualifying tournament but, surprisingly, failed to gain her card in the all-important final event.· The 21 year old table tennis star competes in the Olympic qualifying tournament.
NOUN
· Both sides were scrupulously polite, as if participating in a chess tournament.· Choirs, plays, gymnastics, book discussions, chess tournaments, lectures and crafts classes took place constantly.
· The Braves were 15-3 in the conference and lost to Tulsa last week in the finals of the conference tournament.· These seniors had never won a game in the conference tournament.
· There's also a full World Cup tournament.· Barnes said Munich, Dortmund, Berlin and Stuttgart were interested in staging the new cup tournament.· It was announced yesterday that the Glasgow Cup tournament will be played this season for the first time on an all-weather pitch.· It was not just because he was such a sporting superstar, a man voted player of the 1994 World Cup tournament.· Martina Navratilova has changed her mind and decided to enter the Volkswagen Cup tournament at Eastbourne next week.
· Harley then insisted that the tournament director, who is the ultimate arbiter at professional tournaments, be summoned.· She had spent a long day playing golf with a couple of amateurs -- as a favor to the tournament director.· The tournament director asked her to leave.
· A golf tournament with royal patronage was too good an opportunity for a publicity-minded company to miss.· Fees to play in the golf tournament are $ 325 per person or $ 1, 300 per foursome, Bertino said.· The prized antlers were awarded to Sir Robin after a victory in the Treasury's golf tournament.· In Tucson, January golf tournaments do the trick.· I'd fight wherever there was a fairground booth near a golf tournament - and that was quite often.· Imagine a single golf tournament stretched over that time.· When Jack Nicklaus plays in a golf tournament, do you think he is playing under the same conditions as everybody else?· Wiggins raises the money with a charity golf tournament each June.
· Hall of Famer Betsy King won last year, tying the tournament record with a 12-under 204.
· If it's raining in the afternoon there will be a table tennis tournament.· Athletics meetings, tennis tournaments and horse-races have all been the subject of sponsorship.· A nominal charge is made for table tennis and tennis tournaments.
VERB
· Lottie Dod loved competing and with her sister Ann entered tournaments in the Manchester and Liverpool areas from the age of eleven.· In 1990, Peter had entered thirty-one tournaments and made the cut in only eighteen of them.· Indeed one could be forgiven for thinking only two teams has entered the tournament.· Martina Navratilova has changed her mind and decided to enter the Volkswagen Cup tournament at Eastbourne next week.
· Isaacs, meanwhile, continues the search for places to hold his tournaments.
· The Bruins had lost tournament games as favorites three times in the previous four years.
· I haven't played a major tournament for ages.· The eight teams will play a round-robin tournament beginning on July 21, with the top four advancing to single-elimination semifinals.· They went to the pre-qualifying and, if they made it, they could play in the tournaments.· Fees to play in the golf tournament are $ 325 per person or $ 1, 300 per foursome, Bertino said.· When Jack Nicklaus plays in a golf tournament, do you think he is playing under the same conditions as everybody else?· Spencer-Devlin played in six more tournaments in 1990, but so poorly she called it a year in August.
· I know he's won some tournaments but he is simply not Open material.· Ballesteros had, after all, won sixty tournaments since 1976.· If Frazar is going to win his first tournament this would be the place.· Or that Steve Elkington won the tournament with a 25-footer.· If your team wins the tournament, you cash in.· Kafelnikov has now won at least one tournament in each of the last eight years.· She won the preliminary qualifying tournament but, surprisingly, failed to gain her card in the all-important final event.
1a competition in which players compete against each other in a series of games until there is one winner:  I feel I can win this tournament.tennis/chess/badminton etc tournament2a competition to show courage and fighting skill between soldiers in the Middle Ages
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