• n. 羽毛球

因起源于英國Duke of Beaufort Badminton莊園而得名。Badmin, 人名。-ton, 城鎮，莊園，同town.

badminton

badminton: [19] The game of ‘battledore and shuttlecock’ has been around for some time (it appears to go back to the 16th century; the word battledore, which may come ultimately from Portuguese batedor ‘beater’, first turns up in the 15th century, meaning ‘implement for beating clothes when washing them’, but by the 16th century is being used for a ‘small racket’; while shuttlecock, so named because it is hit back and forth, first appears in the early 16th century, in a poem of John Skelton’s).

This was usually a fairly informal, improvised affair, however, and latterly played mainly by children; the modern, codified game of badminton did not begin until the 1860s or 1870s, and takes its name from the place where it was apparently first played, Badminton House, Avon, country seat of the dukes of Beaufort. (A slightly earlier application of the word badminton had been to a cooling summer drink, a species of claret cup.)

badminton (n.)

1874, from Badminton House, name of Gloucestershire estate of the Duke of Beaufort, where the game first was played in England, mid-19c., having been picked up by British officers from Indian poona. The place name is Old English Badimyncgtun (972), "estate of (a man called) Baduhelm."

1. Barnaby may be 15, but he's nippy and suited to badminton.

巴納比可能15歲了，但他動作敏捷，適合打羽毛球。

來自柯林斯例句

2. Try tennis, badminton or windsurfing. In short, anything challenging.

試試網球、羽毛球或帆板運動吧。總之，只要是有挑戰性的。

來自柯林斯例句

3. Whilst playing badminton, I ruptured my Achilles tendon.

打羽毛球時，我的跟腱撕裂了。

來自柯林斯例句

4. Badminton can be played by two or four people.

羽毛球可由兩人或四人來打.

來自《簡明英漢詞典》

5. " Is badminton anything like tennis? "" No, as different as chalk from cheese. ”

“ 羽毛球有點像網球 嗎 ? ” “不, 根本不同. ”

來自《簡明英漢詞典》