【英语学习】【WOTD】links 释义/词源/示例

此links非彼link。此links是专业术语，常用复数；彼link是“联系，连接”。但是含意有相通之处。

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links pl. n. [LINKS]

常用复数 n. 高尔夫球场；沙丘；环，纽带（名词link的复数形式）

Definition

1: Scotland: sand hills especially along the seashore
1：苏格兰：沙丘，尤其是沿海岸的沙丘

2: golf course; especially: a golf course on linksland
2：高尔夫球场；尤其是 海边沙丘地带的高尔夫球场

注：links，golf course，linksland
https://golftips.golfweek.com/links-style-golf-course-1451.html

Did You Know?

The game of golf originated on the sandy hills of Scotland on a type of terrain known as links or linksland. Eventually, the game’s layout came to be called by the same name as the land, and links developed the meaning of “a golf course built on the coastline,” which eventually broadened to include any golf course. Links is ultimately derived from the Old English word hlincas, the plural of hlinc, meaning “ridge,” and teed off in 15th-century Scottish English as a name for sandy, hilly terrain. Britain has a number of old-fashioned links courses (built to resemble the Scottish landscape and located on the coastline), and there are a few in the United States as well.

词源词根演化：hlinc (“ridge”) —> links / linksland

高尔夫球运动起源于苏格兰的一片沙丘上，当时那里的地名叫links或者linksland。最终，这个游戏的场地布局也按照当时的地名命名了，links也开始表示“沿海岸的高尔夫球场”这个意思，后来扩展到了表示“任何的高尔夫球场”。links这个词起源于古英语单词hlincas，这个单词是hlinc，意思是“山脊”，的复数形式，在15世纪的苏格兰英语中开始启用，表示“沙丘地带”。英国有数个老式的沙丘高尔夫场（位于海岸边，仿苏格兰地形），美国也有几个。

注：teed off：发第一个球

Examples

• "Now that sprint is here, it means that it’s once again time for golfers to hit the links. "
  — Jonathan Saxon, The Herald (Dubois County, Indiana), 27 Mar. 2019
  春天到了，这意味着又到了高尔夫球手游弋在球场中的季节了。

• “A giant 9-foot alligator surprised golfers Sunday at a course in Savannah, Georgia, when it suddenly appeared out of nearby brush and lumbered across the links”.
  — Shelby Lin Erdman, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 25 Mar. 2019

  这个星期天，在Georgia州的Savannah高尔夫球场，一只9英尺长的巨大短吻鳄把球手们惊吓了一跳，它突然从附近的灌木丛中献身，缓慢地穿过球场。

  注：lumber：n. 木材，木料， v. 缓慢的移动

Reference

高尔夫球场示意图
https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Golf-course-components_fig1_271002301