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tournament

noun
 
🔊/ˈtʊənəmənt/, 🔊/ˈtɔːnəmənt/
🔊/ˈtʊrnəmənt/
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  1.  
    (North American English, less frequent tourney)
    a sports competition involving a number of teams or players who take part in different games and must leave the competition if they lose. The competition continues until there is only the winner left.锦标赛；联赛
    • a golf/tennis/soccer/chess tournament高尔夫/网球/足球/国际象棋比赛
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    • Several top teams have agreed to play (in) the tournament.已有数支顶级球队同意参加此次锦标赛。
    • She retired from tournament golf last year.她去年从高尔夫球赛场退役。
    • The loser will be out of the tournament.输掉的将被淘汰出局。
    • her first tournament win of the season她在本赛季的第一场锦标赛胜利
    • He has criticized tournament organizers for ticketing problems.他批评比赛组织者的票务问题。
    • I was invited to compete in a charity five-a-side tournament.我受邀参加一场五人制慈善比赛。
    • She finished fifth in the Olympic qualifying tournament.她在奥运会资格赛中获得第五名。
    Topics Sports: ball and racket sportsb2
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective
    • basketball
    • chess
    • golf
    • …
    verb + tournament
    • enter
    • play
    • play in
    • …
    tournament + verb
    • take place
    tournament + noun
    • victory
    • win
    • leader
    • …
    preposition
    • in a/​the tournament
    • out of a/​the tournament
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  2. a competition in the Middle Ages between knights on horseback fighting to show courage and skill（中世纪的）骑马比武
    • a medieval jousting tournament中世纪的角逐比赛
    3. Word OriginMiddle English (in sense (2)): from Anglo-Norman French variants of Old French torneiement, from torneier ‘take part in a tourney’, based on Latin tornus ‘a turn’.