1DSF[uncountableU]British EnglishBrE a game played by two teams of eleven players who try to kick a round ball into the other team’s goal 足球(运动)SYN American English soccer
Which football team do you support?
你支持哪个球队?
kids playing football in the street
在街上踢球的小孩子
My Dad took me to watch my first football match.
爸爸带我去看了我人生第一场足球比赛。
a football club
足球俱乐部
football fan/supporter
a group of Scottish football fans
一群苏格兰球迷
football boots/kit/shirt (=clothes worn to play football) 足球鞋/装备/衫
2DSA[uncountableU]American EnglishAmE a game played by two teams of eleven players who try to carry or kick an oval ball into the other team’s goal 美式橄榄球,美式足球(运动)SYN British English American football
college football games
大学美式橄榄球比赛
a football field
美式橄榄球场
He played football in high school.
他在高中时打美式橄榄球。
3.football hooliganBritish EnglishBrE someone who behaves in a noisy or violent way at a football match 足球流氓
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football hooligan• Once upon a time we were all law-abidingcitizens, and now we've got football hooligans.• She prowled among the desks and glowered at the action boards as if they were a bunch of football hooligans.• The exploits of football hooligans would probably be praised if they were part of resistance to an invadingarmy.• Let us look more closely at the football hooligans themselves.• The police have also taken on the football hooligans, the hippies, and the criminalgangs.• Crowd violence did not arrive with the football hooligans.• It is difficult to point to the material goals which football hooligans or juveniledelinquents are chasing.
4.DS[countableC] a ball used in these games 足球;橄榄球
played football• I wondered if any of them had ever played football with Romario.• The accidentoccurred last night in the Toxteth district of Liverpool as he and his friends played football.• He had played football in college and claimed he had an instinct for battle.• Sports were very important to the father, who himself had played football and basketball and had run track in high school.• In the Army, he played football and maintained his interest in all things artistic, especially jazz.• When he played football, he probably wore a chinstrap made with a coconut shell.• Before his illness, Ivan played football, cricket and bowls, and was very well-known among the Ipswich sporting circle.• It was nationalabsolution: they won the World Cup but we played football.