bullfight
斗牛,斗牛士,斗牛犬,斗牛场
Definitions
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- : a traditional Spanish, Portuguese, or Latin American spectacle in which a bull is fought by a matador, assisted by banderilleros and picadors, in a prescribed way in an arena and is usually killed.
Examples
Then we marvel at the Teatro Real opera house and proceed through the winding streets of old Madrid to the Plaza Mayor, once the site of Inquisition autos-da-fé, royal celebrations, and bullfights.
What we remember most from his books isn’t the wars or the bullfights.
He wrote with empathy of women dying in childbirth, while penning paragraph after paragraph about bullfights.
She saw her first bullfight at seven while on a family vacation in Mexico, and fell in love with the sport.
Across the stadium in the northeast corner, the mass of red-colored fans of Bnei Sakhnin was like a flag at a bullfight.
No campaign can afford a multitude of competing strategies, or row upon row of bullfight critics publicly questioning every move.
But, she added, “The bullfight is an ecosystem and, one could say, an honest one.”
In the Sunday newspaper, the reporter said that the painting stayed somehow alive through the whole bullfight.
He ceased to find pleasure in his nets and boar spears, in the fandango and the bullfight.
She had forgotten that a bullfight meant that there would be blood and killing.
By this the whole matter had presented itself to them as an entertainment more diverting than bullfight or bear-baiting.
He swallowed a tumbler of port, a wine he rarely touched; but he felt worse now than after the bullfight.
Shelton was conscious of a shiver running through the audience which reminded him of a bullfight he had seen in Spain.