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Light Weight 8552.Lightweight 英 Laɪtweɪt]美 Laɪtwet 释义 N

正面 8552.lightweight
英 ['laɪtweɪt]美 ['laɪtwet]

背面
释义:
n. 轻量级选手;无足轻重的人adj. 重量轻的;平均重量以下的
例句:
1. The vacant W.B.C. junior-lightweight title has been called off.空缺的世界拳击理事会次轻量级头衔被取消了。

1. light + weight.

lightweight (adj.)also light-weight, 1773 in horse-racing, also in pugilism; from light (adj.1) + weight. Figurative sense of "inconsequential" first attested 1809."

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