| 正面 | 13482.gymnasium 英 [dʒɪm'neɪzɪəm]美 [dʒɪm'nezɪəm]     |
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| 背面 |      释义： 1. 斯诺登 => 棱镜门：Prism.n. 体育馆；健身房 例句： 1. Our school has a big gymnasium.我们学校有座大型体育馆. gymnasium 健身馆来自希腊语gymnos, 裸体，裸体健身者，现指健身馆。因在古希腊时期，人们习惯裸体锻炼，以展示人体之美。参照各古希腊裸体雕像。 gymnasiumgymnasium: [16] Greek gumnós meant ‘naked’. It was customary in ancient times for athletes to train naked, and so the verb gumnázein came to mean ‘train, practise’ – particularly by doing exercises (whence English gymnast [16]). From the verb was derived the noun gumnásion, which Latin borrowed as gymnasium ‘school’. This academic sense has never caught on to any extent in English (although it is the word’s only application in German); we have preferred to go back to the original athletic connotations.gymnasium (n.)1590s, "place of exercise," from Latin gymnasium "school for gymnastics," from Greek gymnasion "public place where athletic exercises are practiced; gymnastics school," in plural, "bodily exercises," from gymnazein "to exercise or train," literally or figuratively, literally "to train naked," from gymnos "naked," from a metathesis of PIE *nogw-mo-, suffixed form of *nogw- "naked" (see naked). A feature of all ancient Greek communities, at first it was merely an open space, later with extensive facilities and including training for the mind as well as the body. Hence its use in German from 15c. as a name for "high school" (more or less paralleling a sense also in Latin); in English it has remained purely athletic. For the "continental high school sense," English in 19c. sometimes used gymnastical as an adjective, gymnasiast for a student." |