ボクシング
解説 Definition
boxing は、ボクシングというスポーツを意味します。拳にグローブをつけて相手と戦う競技で、日本語の「ボクシング」とほぼ同じ意味です。
Boxing is a combat sport in which two opponents wearing padded gloves strike each other with their fists under a set of rules. Matches take place in a ring and are divided into timed rounds.
覚え方のコツ Memory Tip
boxing は「拳で打つ」の box に -ing が付いて競技名になった語です。箱の box ではなく、グローブを着けた二人がリングで拳を使って戦う場面を核に覚えます。play ではなく do boxing や take up boxing と言えますが、例文の like boxing、watch boxing の形も非常に自然です。
Boxing is built from box in its verb sense “to fight with the fists” plus -ing. Keep it separate from box meaning a container by picturing two gloved athletes inside a boxing ring. The sport has timed rounds and rules governing legal punches. Useful combinations include watch boxing, take up boxing, a boxing match, and a boxing champion. In simple statements, boxing behaves as an uncountable activity noun: He likes boxing and Boxing is a popular sport, without an article before the name of the sport.
例文
He likes boxing.
彼はボクシングが好きです。
Boxing is a popular sport.
ボクシングは人気のあるスポーツです。
She watches boxing on TV.
彼女はテレビでボクシングを見ます。
boxing の類義語・関連語
boxing の語源・成り立ち Etymology
英語 box（拳で打つ）に動名詞語尾 -ing が付いた形。box の「殴る」の意味は中英語期に成立し、語源は不確定だがデンマーク語 bask（平手打ち）と関連する説がある。関連語：boxer（ボクサー）、kickboxing。箱の box とは別語源で、打撃を意味する語から派生した。
Boxing is the activity noun formed from the verb box, meaning “to strike or fight with the fists,” and the suffix -ing. This fighting sense of box is recorded from the Middle English period, but its deeper origin is uncertain; it has been compared with Germanic words for striking. It is historically distinct from the noun box meaning a container. Boxer and kickboxing are later formations from the same fighting sense.
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