- A bout is a fight. If you want to be a boxer, start with some easy bouts before challenging the champ.
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- n. 回合；较量；发作；一阵
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1. He is down with a nasty bout of flu.
他患了一阵子感冒，很难受。
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2. That bout of pneumonia enfeebled her.
那次肺炎的发作使她虚弱了。
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3. As much as we might wish it, there is no painless recovery after such a long bout of overleveraging.
尽管我们希望如此，但在经历如此长期的高杠杆发作之后，不会有任何无痛的复苏。
- bout (adv., prep.) also 'bout, short for about, mid-13c.
- bout (n.) 1540s, "a roundabout way" (obsolete), from Middle English bught, probably from an unrecorded Old English variant of byht "a bend," from Proto-Germanic *bukhta- (see bight (n.)). Sense evolved from "a circuit of any kind" (as of a plow) to "a round at any kind of exercise" (1570s), "a round at fighting" (1590s), "a fit of drinking" (1660s), "a fit of illness" (by 1938).
bout / baʊt ; NAmE baʊt / noun 1 a short period of great activity; a short period during which there is a lot of a particular thing, usually sth unpleasant 一阵；一场；（尤指坏事的）一通，一次 ◆ a drinking bout 狂饮一通 boutof sth/of doing sth ◆ the latest bout of inflation 最近一阵通货膨胀 2 bout(of sth) an attack or period of illness （疾病的）发作；发病期 ◆ a severe bout of flu/coughing 流感╱咳嗽的猛烈发作 ◆ He suffered occasional bouts of depression. 他有时会犯抑郁症。 ◆ ( NAmE) a bout with the flu 流感发作期 3 a boxingor wrestlingmatch 拳击（或摔跤）比赛 bout bouts bout / baʊt ; NAmE baʊt /
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