golf

英 [g?lf] 美[g?lf]

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1. 音譯“高爾夫”。

golf 高爾夫

來自蘇格蘭語，詞源有爭議。

golf (n.): mid-15c., Scottish gouf, usually taken as an alteration of Middle Dutch colf, colve "stick, club, bat," from Proto-Germanic *kulth- (cognates: Old Norse kolfr "clapper of a bell," German Kolben "mace, club, butt-end of a gun"). The game is from 14c., the word is first mentioned (along with fut-bol) in a 1457 Scottish statute on forbidden games (a later ordinance decrees, "That in na place of the realme thair be vsit fut-ballis, golf, or vther sic unprofitabill sportis" [Acts James IV, 1491, c.53]). Despite what you read on the Internet, "golf" is not an acronym. Golf ball attested from 1540s; the motorized golf-cart from 1951. Golf widow is from 1890.
Oh! who a golfer's bride would be,
Fast mated with a laddie
Who every day goes out to tee
And with him takes the caddie.

["The Golf Widow's Lament," in "Golf," Oct. 31, 1890]
golf (v.): c. 1800, from golf (n.). Related: Golfed; golfing.

1. Walking and golf increased in popularity during the 1980s.: 在20世紀80年代越來越多的人喜歡上了遠足或是打高爾夫球。

2. 673 private golf clubs took part in a recent study.: 673家私人高爾夫俱樂部參與了最近的研究。

3. At least three British golf courses are now owned by the Japanese.: 現在英國至少有3家高爾夫球場為日本人所有。

4. Johnson was clad casually in slacks and a light blue golf shirt.: 約翰遜身穿休閑寬松的長褲，配以淡藍色高爾夫襯衫。

5. Weir broke his leg in a freak accident playing golf.: 韋爾因為一次打高爾夫時發生的離奇事故折斷了腿。