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discus

/dis-kuhs/US // ˈdɪs kəs //UK // (ˈdɪskəs) //

铁饼,磁盘,掷铁饼,掷铁饼的人

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural dis·cus·es, dis·ci [dis-ahy]. /ˈdɪs aɪ/.

    • : a circular disk more than 7 inches in diameter and 2.2 pounds in weight, usually wooden with a metal rim and thicker in the center than at the edge, for throwing for distance in athletic competition.
    • : the sport of throwing this disk for distance.

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Examples

  • If one of the other guests had opened their door that afternoon while I was running by, I would have been sent flying like a discus off the ceiling.

  • Press won gold in the shot put and silver in the discus at the 1960 Rome Olympics, and gold in both events at the 1964 Tokyo Games.

  • So far as I know, no one has ever done this to an Olympic discus thrower.

  • Jeremy Hunt has introduced a new sport to the Games, to go with the discus, shot put, javelin.

  • The Apollo and the Discobolus are engaged in the same purpose—the one watching the effect of his arrow, the other of his discus.

  • Who shall meet the helméd Arjun in the gory field of war, Krishna with his fiery discus mounted on his battle-car?

  • It was not till the discus throw that the Scout team suffered an overwhelming reverse.

  • And after the town of Saubha had fallen, the discus came back into my hands.

  • The discus then cleft Salwa in twain who in that fierce conflict was at the point of hurling a heavy mace.