matador
matador 英 [ˈmætədɔ:(r)] 美 [ˈmætəˌdɔr]
n. 斗牛士；王牌
名词复数:matadors
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- n. 斗牛士；王牌
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1. Apparently sensitive to criticism，the bull forgot all about the matador and charged at the drunk.
那公牛显然对批评话是敏感的，所以它把斗牛士全忘记了，向那醉汉冲了过去。
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2. The matador had a narrow escape.
这个斗牛士真是死里逃生。
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3. They liked his emotion at the table, the undisguised fire and grief; they fell for his murmuring, boyish charm, and most of all they admired the matador beauty of his play.
人们喜欢球桌旁真情流露毫不掩饰的他，喜欢他的喃喃自语，他的男孩般迷人魅力，更多的人则欣赏他在比赛中斗牛士般辛辣的美。
- matador (n.) "the slayer of the bull in a bull-fight," 1670s, from Spanish matador, literally "killer," from matar "to kill," which is of uncertain origin. Probably from Latin mactare "to kill," originally "to honor by sacrifice," but this presents phonetic difficulties: "the regular evolution of this Latin base would have yielded *meitar in Portuguese and *mechar in Spanish" [Eva Núñez Méndez, "Diachronic Applications in Hispanic Linguistics"]. The alternative might be Arabic mata "he died," from Persian (see second element in checkmate). Fem. form is matadora.
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