• n. 英式橄欖球；拉格比（英格蘭中部的城市）

原為英國中部 Warwickshire 地名 Rugby,因該運動發源于 Rugby school 而得名。字面意思可 能為某個昵稱 Rug 的人的城鎮，比較 derby.

rugby

rugby: [19] Legend has it that the game of rugby football was born at Rugby School in Warwickshire in 1823 when, during an ordinary game of football, a boy called William Webb Ellis picked up the ball and ran with it. The use of the term rugby for the game is not recorded before 1864, and the public-school slang version rugger dates from the 1890s.

rugby (n.)

type of football, 1864, after Rugby, public school where the game was played, from city of Rugby in Warwickshire, central England. The place name is Rocheberie (1086), probably "fortified place of a man called *Hroca;" with second element from Old English burh (dative byrig), replaced by 13c. with Old Norse -by "village" due to the influence of Danish settlers. Otherwise it might be *Rockbury today. Or first element perhaps is Old English hroc "rook." Rugby Union formed 1871. Slang rugger for "rugby" is from 1893.

1. Australian rugby league enjoys a huge following in New Zealand.

澳大利亞橄欖球聯盟在新西蘭有眾多支持者。

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2. Australia's rugby union side enjoyed a record-breaking win over France.

澳大利亞的英式橄欖球聯盟隊創紀錄地贏了法國隊。

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3. I ghosted his weekly rugby column for the Telegraph.

我為他代寫《電訊報》每周的橄欖球專欄。

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4. There were mixed fortunes for French rugby teams on tour.

參加巡回比賽的法國橄欖球隊成績有喜有悲。

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5. Lining a corridor is a wall of photographs spanning his rugby days.

走廊的一面墻上貼滿了他橄欖球生涯里各個時期的照片。

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