duel
duel
noun
dueller
noun
noun
noun
- (chiefly historical)a pre-arranged contest with deadly weapons between two people in order to settle a point of honour
(主史)决斗
■(in modern use) a contest or race between two parties
[现代用法]（双方的）比赛，竞赛
he won by a short head after a great final-furlong duel.
经过最后一弗隆的激烈竞争这匹牡马以微弱优势取得了胜利。
- [no obj.]fight a duel or duels
决斗
[as noun duelling]duelling had been forbidden for serving officers.
现役军官不得决斗。
dueller
noun
- (美 dueler)
noun
- (美 duelist)
- late 15th cent.: from Latin duellum, archaic and literary from of bellum 'war', used in medieval Latin with the meaning 'combat between two persons', partly influenced by dualis 'of two'. The original sense was 'single combat used to decide a judicial dispute'; the sense 'contest to decide a point of honour' dates from the early 17th cent
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