duel

noun

/ˈdjuːəl/

/ˈduːəl/

(in the past旧时) a formal fight with weapons between two people who disagreed, especially over a matter of honour（旧时为解决纷争的）决斗
- to fight/win a duel进行／赢得决斗
- to challenge somebody to a duel要求与某人决斗
- He fought a duel with the prince.他和王子进行了一场决斗。
- a duel between the two officers两名军官之间的决斗
a competition or struggle between two people or groups（双方的）竞争，斗争
- The debate rapidly descended into a verbal duel between the two candidates.这场辩论很快演变成两位候选人之间的口头决斗。

词源late 15th cent.: from Latin duellum, archaic and literary form of bellum ‘war’, used in medieval Latin with the meaning ‘combat between two persons’, partly influenced by dualis ‘of two’. The original sense was ‘single combat used to decide a judicial dispute’; the sense ‘contest to decide a point of honour’ dates from the early 17th cent.

duel

verb

/ˈdjuːəl/

/ˈduːəl/

[intransitive]

动词形式

present simple I / you / we / they duel	/ˈdjuːəl/ /ˈduːəl/
he / she / it duels	/ˈdjuːəlz/ /ˈduːəlz/
past simple duelled	/ˈdjuːəld/ /ˈduːəld/
past simple dueled	/ˈdjuːəld/ /ˈduːəld/
past participle duelled	/ˈdjuːəld/ /ˈduːəld/
past participle dueled	/ˈdjuːəld/ /ˈduːəld/
-ing form duelling	/ˈdjuːəlɪŋ/ /ˈduːəlɪŋ/
-ing form dueling	/ˈdjuːəlɪŋ/ /ˈduːəlɪŋ/

to take part in a formal fight with weapons against one other person, as was done in the past when two people disagreed, especially over a matter of honour（旧时为解决纷争的）决斗
- The two men duelled to the death.两个男人决斗到直至一个人丧命。