• n. 英式橄榄球；拉格比（英格兰中部的城市）

原为英国中部 Warwickshire 地名 Rugby,因该运动发源于 Rugby school 而得名。字面意思可 能为某个昵称 Rug 的人的城镇，比较 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.

澳大利亚橄榄球联盟在新西兰有众多支持者。

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

澳大利亚的英式橄榄球联盟队创纪录地赢了法国队。

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

我为他代写《电讯报》每周的橄榄球专栏。

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

参加巡回比赛的法国橄榄球队成绩有喜有悲。

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

走廊的一面墙上贴满了他橄榄球生涯里各个时期的照片。

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