bout

名词 n. 动词 v. 介词 prep.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A period of something, especially one painful or unpleasant, like an illness.
    — a bout of drought
  2. A boxing match.
    — An Italian boxer abandoned her bout at the Paris Olympics after only 46 seconds on Thursday, refusing to continue after taking a heavy punch from an Algerian opponent who had been disqualified from last year’s world championships over questions about her eligibility to compete in women’s sports.
  3. An assault (a fencing encounter) at which the score is kept.
  4. A roller derby match.
  5. A fighting competition.
    — Then they had bouts of wrestling and of cudgel play, so that every day they gained in skill and strength.
  6. A bulge or widening in a musical instrument, such as either of the two characteristic bulges of a guitar.
  7. The going and returning of a plough, or other implement used to mark the ground and create a headland, across a field. dated
    — The outside bout of each land is ploughed two inches deeper, and from thence the water runs into cross furrows, which are dug with a spade […] I have an instrument of great power, called a scarifier, for this purpose. It is drawn by four horses, and completely prepares the land for the seed at each bout.
动词 v.
  1. To contest a bout.
介词 prep.
  1. Apheretic form of about. colloquial
    — They're talking bout you!

词形变化

bouts plural bouts present,singular,third-person bouting participle,present bouted participle,past bouted past

词汇关系

衍生词
boutfit interbout

词源

词源 1
From Middle English bout, bowt, bught (whence also modern English bought (“bend, curve”)), probably from Old English *buht (“bend, turn”), an unrecorded variant of Old English byht (“a bend, curve”), from Proto-West Germanic *buhti, from Proto-Germanic *buhtiz (“a bend”). Equivalent to bow + -t. Doublet of bight and bought.
For the sense development compare bender.
词源 2
Written form of a reduction of about.
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