soc-,縮寫自 association,縮寫自 Football Association,足球協(xié)會，足球聯(lián)賽，-er,名詞后綴。
英文詞源
soccer
soccer: [19] Soccer was coined from Association football, a term introduced around 1870 for football played according to the rules of the Football Association (as opposed to Rugby football). The suffix -er was commonly used as a more-or-less meaningless addition to nouns in British public-school and university slang of the late 19th and early 20th centuries (footer ‘football’ was formed in the same way). Originally, in the 1890s, socker vied with soccer as the word’s spelling.
soccer (n.)
1889, socca, later socker (1891), soccer (1895), originally university slang (with jocular formation -er (3)), from a shortened form of Assoc., abbreviation of association in Football Association (as opposed to Rugby football); compare rugger. An unusual method of formation, but those who did it perhaps shied away from making a name out of the first three letters of Assoc.
雙語例句
1. Soccer in the States has never taken off in a big way.
足球在美國從來就沒獲得過大發(fā)展。
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2. The Zambian game is much more aggressive than European soccer.
贊比亞的這種運動比歐式足球要激烈得多。
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3. Below are printed the answers to the Brain of Soccer 1993 quiz.
以下所印的是1993年“腦力足球”小測驗的答案。
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4. A mate of mine used to play soccer for Liverpool.
我的一個朋友在利物浦隊踢過球。
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5. He called Moore "one of the immortals of soccer".