Olympic Games
演变路径(由近及远)
- 英语
- 源自 ←中古法语 ieux olympiques
词源说明
释义(英文)
专有名词 Proper noun
- An international multi-sport event (inspired by the ancient festival) taking place every fourth year. [from 19th c.]
- (historical, Ancient Greece) A sporting festival held every four or five years on the Plain of Olympia in southern Greece, in honour of Zeus; these games were the inspiration for the modern version, which began in the 1890s as a revival of the Ancient Greek ones. [from 16th c.]