gridiron
gridiron 英 [ˈgrɪdaɪən] 美 [ˈgrɪdaɪərn]
n. 烤架；格状物；橄榄球场
名词复数:gridirons
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- n. 烤架；格状物；橄榄球场
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1. The gridiron Club holds an annual dinner at which journalists put on songs and skits lampooning Democrats and Republicans alike.
“烤架俱乐部”每年都会举办年度记者晚宴，记者们可以在晚宴上演唱歌曲或表演滑稽短剧讽刺民主共和两大党派的人士。
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2. For many years, the gridiron game was only one of many forms of football played in America.
在相当长的时间里，美式橄榄球只不过是足球在美国的一种形式而已。
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3. Every spring there are three press dinners, hosted by the gridiron Club, the White House correspondents, and the radio and television correspondents.
每年春季都有三场媒体聚餐会，分别由格里迪朗俱乐部、白宫通讯员和广播电视记者举办。
- gridiron (n.) cooking utensil for broiling over a fire, early 14c., griderne, alteration (by association with iron) of gridire (late 13c.), a variant of gridil (see griddle). Confusion of "l" and "r" was common in Norman dialect. Also a medieval instrument of torture by fire. As the word for a U.S. football field, by 1896, for its lines.
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