regatta: [17] The word regatta originated in Italy, and at first denoted a gondola race on the Grand Canal in Venice. It appears to have been derived from a Venetian dialect verb rigattare ‘contend, fight’, of uncertain origin. The first record of its application to a boat race in England is in June 1775, when a ‘regatta’ was held on the Thames: the Public advertiser noted that ‘The Regatta will keep at home many of our Nobility and wealthy Commoners’, and Dr Johnson wrote to his friend Mrs Thrale on June 21 ‘I am glad you are to be at the regatta’.
regatta (n.)
1650s, name of a boat race among gondoliers held on the Grand Canal in Venice, from Italian (Venetian dialect) regatta, literally "contention for mastery," from rigattare "to compete, haggle, sell at retail." [Klein's sources, however, suggest a source in Italian riga "row, rank," from a Germanic source and related to English row (v.).] The general meaning of "boat race, yacht race" is usually considered to have begun with a race on the Thames by that name June 23, 1775 (see OED), but there is evidence that it was used as early as 1768.
双语例句
1. We'll take part in a regatta next month.
下个月我们将参加一场划船比赛.
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2. Von Sloneker met her when he came to Edgartown for the regatta.
冯斯隆尼克到埃德加城参加赛艇的时候遇见了她.
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3. Attracts many Henley Royal Regatta entrants both domestic and international.
吸引国内、国际的许多亨德森皇室成员赛船会进入者.
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4. Foreign military officials attending the regatta toured a Song - class diesel - electric submarine.
参加此次阅舰式的外军军官们参观了一艘宋级柴电潜艇.
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5. The Cowes regatta is the longest - running regular yachting regatta in the world.
