volleyball

volleyball 主要指排球运动，也可指这项运动所使用的排球。

💡 记忆钩子

想象球在球网两边来回被击打：这场来回击球的比赛是“排球运动”，被击打的那只球就是“排球”。

📝 学习建议

先记作运动名称，再记作球的名称；不要只把 volleyball 理解成“排球运动”。
表示运动时通常作不可数名词，表示具体的球时可以用 a volleyball 或 volleyballs。

📖 中文释义

noun

core 排球运动

📖 一种隔着球网、由两队把球来回击过球网的球类运动；这里说的是比赛或运动本身，不是某一个球。

💡 常用 play volleyball、play beach volleyball 和 a volleyball game 等搭配。表示这项运动时通常不加冠词，也不说 play a volleyball；若指一场比赛，可以说 a volleyball match 或 a volleyball game。

uncountable

My sister plays volleyball at school.

我妹妹在学校打排球。

We watched a volleyball match last night.

我们昨晚看了一场排球比赛。
common 排球

📖 指排球运动中被队员击打、在球网上方来回飞的那个球。

💡 表示一个具体的球时通常用 a volleyball，表示多个球时用 volleyballs。它和表示运动的不可数用法不同；不要在表示运动时误用 a volleyball。

countable

The volleyball landed outside the court.

排球落在了场外。

volleyballs plural

📘 英文释义 (WordNet) 共 2 组

a game in which two teams hit an inflated ball over a high net using their hands

同义词集: volleyball volleyball game

an inflated ball used in playing volleyball

同义词集: volleyball

上位: ball

🌳 词源

由 volley（截击、来回击球）和 ball（球）组成；最初写作两个词 volley ball。

English volley Proto-Indo-European *bʰel-der. Proto-Germanic *balluz Old English *beall Middle English bal English ball English volleyball From volley + ball. In 1895, in Holyoke, Massachusetts, William G. Morgan created a new game called Mintonette, a name derived from the game of badminton. After an observer, Alfred Halstead, noticed the volleying nature of the game at its first exhibition match in 1896, played at the International YMCA Training School (now called Springfield College), the game quickly became known as volleyball (it was originally spelled as two words: "volley ball")

🔄 变式

volleyballs plural

🏷 单词标签 & 词根