regatta: [17] The word regatta originated in Italy, and at first denoted a gondola race on the Grand Canal in Venice. It appears to have been derived from a Venetian dialect verb rigattare ‘contend, fight’, of uncertain origin. The first record of its application to a boat race in England is in June 1775, when a ‘regatta’ was held on the Thames: the Public advertiser noted that ‘The Regatta will keep at home many of our Nobility and wealthy Commoners’, and Dr Johnson wrote to his friend Mrs Thrale on June 21 ‘I am glad you are to be at the regatta’.
regatta (n.)
1650s, name of a boat race among gondoliers held on the Grand Canal in Venice, from Italian (Venetian dialect) regatta, literally "contention for mastery," from rigattare "to compete, haggle, sell at retail." [Klein's sources, however, suggest a source in Italian riga "row, rank," from a Germanic source and related to English row (v.).] The general meaning of "boat race, yacht race" is usually considered to have begun with a race on the Thames by that name June 23, 1775 (see OED), but there is evidence that it was used as early as 1768.
雙語例句
1. We'll take part in a regatta next month.
下個月我們將參加一場劃船比賽.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
2. Von Sloneker met her when he came to Edgartown for the regatta.
馮斯隆尼克到埃德加城參加賽艇的時候遇見了她.
來自電影對白
3. Attracts many Henley Royal Regatta entrants both domestic and international.
吸引國內(nèi)、國際的許多亨德森皇室成員賽船會進入者.
來自互聯(lián)網(wǎng)
4. Foreign military officials attending the regatta toured a Song - class diesel - electric submarine.
參加此次閱艦式的外軍軍官們參觀了一艘宋級柴電潛艇.
來自互聯(lián)網(wǎng)
5. The Cowes regatta is the longest - running regular yachting regatta in the world.