| 正面 | 1812.golf 英 [gɒlf]美 [gɔlf]     |
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| 背面 |      释义： 1. 音译“高尔夫”。n. 高尔夫球；高尔夫球运动vi. 打高尔夫球n. (Golf)人名；(西、挪)戈尔夫 例句： 1. Walking and golf increased in popularity during the 1980s.在20世纪80年代越来越多的人喜欢上了远足或是打高尔夫球。 golf 高尔夫来自苏格兰语，词源有争议。 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." |