英:[ˈvɑ:səti]
美:[ˈvɑrsəti]
英:[ˈvɑ:səti]
美:[ˈvɑrsəti]
n.
大学(尤指牛津或剑桥)
(学校的)代表队
adj.
(常用于牛津和剑桥两大学的体育比赛)大学的
var·si·ty
var sih ti
复数:varsities
noun
the primary team that competes in a sport or other extramural contest on behalf of a school, college, or the like.Freshmen can't play for varsity, but he hopes to join the team next year.
adjective
of, belonging to, or denoting a varsity.a varsity basketball player
1825年,“大学”,是早期 versity(1670年代)的变体,缩写形式为 university。比较 varsal(1690年代),缩写为 universal; varmint 来自 vermin; Grose 的“俚语词典”(1788年)将 vardy 作为 verdict 的俚语。[世纪词典]“在英国大学中使用,在美国学院中在一定程度上受到影响”。
大学运动代表队
by shortening from university (with regular late Middle English opening of tautosyllabic er to ar)
The first known use of varsity was in 1646
Vaselinetrademark
—used for petroleum jelly
vasenoun
an often round container of greater depth than width used chiefly for ornament or for flowers
vasculumnoun
an often cylinder-shaped box usually of metal that is used for the temporary storage of plants collected in the field
vascularadjective
of or relating to a tube or channel for carrying a body fluid (as blood of an animal or sap of a plant) or to a system of such channels or tubesalso: supplied with or made up of such channels or tubes vascular tissue
a vascular system
varyverb
to make a minor or partial change in
to give variety to
to show or undergo change
to be different
to change in bodily structure or function away from what is usual for members of a group
varvenoun
a pair of layers of alternately finer and coarser silt or clay believed to be deposited annually in a body of still water
varsitynoun
the main team representing a college, school, or club in contests
1 His varsity came in at 16:15, still five seconds better than Ulbrickson’s crew.
2 But about a dozen were playing football, because they were on the varsity, and the gym teacher happened to be the football coach.
3 Returning to the shell house that evening, the first varsity boat fell in alongside Tom Bolles’s first freshman boat, which was also returning.
4 In June of that year, Ulbrickson’s varsity had attempted to redeem itself at the annual Intercollegiate Rowing Association regatta in Poughkeepsie, New York, but Cal had trounced them again, by five lengths this time.
5 Barring some kind of miracle, the older boys would race as the varsity crew at Poughkeepsie; the sophomores would almost certainly be demoted to junior varsity status, despite winning in California.
6 It also got the attention of Harvey Love, the coxswain in the varsity boat, who frantically called for a higher stroke rate.
7 When Jim Don Cooper whined that he just couldn’t get excited over literature, Mr. Loring brought in the varsity cheerleaders and had them lead exuberant cheers for Charles Dickens, William Faulkner, and J. D. Salinger.
8 The varsity and junior varsity were to continue racing to the three-mile mark.
9 Yet, despite varsity practice being canceled, no one ever questioned why Frankie had been there.
10 But by the end of the first mile of the four-mile varsity course, the two western schools had pulled out well in front of all the easterners.
11 The heats go fast—JV girls, JV boys, varsity girls, varsity boys—but each race is still a long process.
12 All the reasons for the phenomenal support of Permian had been embodied by this 1980 varsity team.
13 His glad-handing, varsity chumminess was totally alien and therefore suspect; then, too, he studied the classics, which are certainly harmless enough but which still provoke the raised eyebrow in some circles.
14 Elevating the sophomores to varsity status was an unusual move, but not unheard of.
15 He is on the varsity in tennis.
他是大学队的网球选手.
16 Seven varsity crews paddled to the starting line, to race for the national title, in a ghostly light mist.
17 And the varsity girls are contenders almost every year.
18 I turned and saw Buck and Troy, both still wearing their heavy varsity jackets.
19 Ulbrickson learned that despite the break, four of his varsity boys still had incompletes and were just days away from being declared ineligible.
20 Being on a varsity team must be tough.
参加大学代表队一定很辛苦.