hippodrome是什么意思

双语例句

(1)So the hippodrome is the circus in Latin.

所以赛马场就是拉丁语中的马戏表演场。

(2)The carriage-way round the circular railing presented such a magnificent hippodrome.

环绕圆形栏杆的车道象座富丽堂皇的竞技场。

(3)Then suddenly they vanished behind a great clump of trees growing in the middle of the Hippodrome.

然后他们突然被跑马场中间的一大片树丛遮挡住了。

(4)The originals were stolen from Constantinople's hippodrome, or chariot racing arena, during the Fourth Crusade.

原物是在第四次十字军东征中，从君士坦丁堡的赛马场中偷出来的。

(5)The originals were stolen from Constantinople's hippodrome, or chariot racing arena, during the Fourth Crusade.

原物是在第四次十字军东征中，从君士坦丁堡的马车竞技场中偷出来的。

同义词

n. 竞技场；跑马场

释义

n.

[as name]a theatre or concert hall

剧院，音乐厅

the Birmingham Hippodrome.

　伯明翰剧院。

(in ancient Greece or Rome)a course for chariot or horse races

（古希腊，古罗马）战车比赛场，赛马场。

词源

"late 16th cent. （in sense 2）： from French, via Latin from Greek hippodromos, from hippos　‘horse' + dromos　‘race, course'. The early sense led to the term's use as a grandiose name for a modern circus, later applied to other places of popular entertainment （sense 1, late 19th cent.）."