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- football ['fυt,bɔːl]
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n
any of various games played with a round or oval ball and usually based on two teams competing to kick, head, carry, or otherwise propel the ball into each other's goal, territory, etc - See association football rugby Australian Rules American football Gaelic football
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n
(as modifier)
- a football ground
- a football supporter
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n
the ball used in any of these games or their variants
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n
a problem, issue, etc, that is continually passed from one group or person to another and treated as a pretext for argument instead of being resolved
- he accused the government of using the strike as a political football
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any of various games played with a round or oval ball and usually based on two teams competing to kick, head, carry, or otherwise propel the ball into each other's goal, territory, etc - See association football rugby Australian Rules American football Gaelic football
Examples
- the Miami football club
- (美国)迈阿密橄榄球俱乐部 → club
- a political football
- 被踢来踢去的政治难题 → football
- Football and chess are games.
- 足球和国际象棋都是比赛项目。 → game
- a football player
- 足球运动员 → player
- a whiz at football
- 足球能手 → whiz
- a football bladder
- 足球球胆 → bladder
- He stayed up to watch football on TV.
- 他熬夜收看了足球比赛。
- The football final was really neat!
- 足球决赛真的很精彩！ → neat
- My favorite part of the school is the playground because I play football there.
- 学校里我最喜欢的就是操场，因为我经常在那儿玩足球。 → playground
- The kids were hard to settle down since they were so worked up over this morning's football game.
- 孩子们看了今天早晨的足球比赛后就十分兴奋，很难安静下来了。 → settle
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