拉格比

Lāgébǐ

popculture

Meanings

1 Rugby (the English town and its famous school)
2 rugby (the sport, transliteration sometimes used; more commonly 橄榄球 gǎnlǎnqiú)

Characters

pull (used phonetically)

frame (used phonetically)

compare (used phonetically)

Examples

拉格比是英国一座以橄榄球闻名的小镇。

Lāgébǐ shì Yīngguó yī zuò yǐ gǎnlǎnqiú wénmíng de xiǎo zhèn.

Rugby is a small English town famous for the sport.

现代橄榄球起源于拉格比公学。

Xiàndài gǎnlǎnqiú qǐyuán yú Lāgébǐ Gōngxué.

Modern rugby originated at Rugby School.

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history

Rugby School in Warwickshire, England, gave its name to the sport after a 19th-century legend that pupil William Webb Ellis picked up the ball during a football match in 1823. In Chinese, the sport itself is normally 橄榄球 ("olive-shaped ball"); 拉格比 mainly names the place.

Stroke Order

拉 lā

格 gé

比 bǐ