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flyweight

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++
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fly·weight /ˈflaɪweɪt/ noun [countable]  DSOa boxer who weighs less than 50.80 kilograms, and who is heavier than a strawweight but lighter than a bantamweight 蝇量级拳击手,次最轻量级拳击手〔体重在50.80公斤以下,级别在草量级和最轻量级之间〕
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flyweightFor instance, judo flyweight Karen Briggs grappling on with a dislocated shoulder shoved back in its socket.Boxing: Gold medals are awarded in light flyweight, bantamweight, lightweight, welterweight, middleweight and heavyweight.The Gorbals produced flyweight boxers and hard drinkers in profusion in the 1930s, and Lynch died there 6 August 1946.His championship-winning days began in 1983 and he lost the flyweight title two years ago, since when he has remained unbeaten.He did not relish training, though the flyweight limit was eight stones.Yuri Arbachakov, a talented but untested flyweight.In Jimmy Wilde, the world flyweight champion from 1916, Britain produced one of the very greatest boxers of all time.
fly·weight nounChineseSyllable
kilograms, boxer weighs Corpus and less a than who 50.80


flyweight
flyweight /ˈflaɪweɪt/ noun [countable]
a boxer who weighs less than 50.80 kilograms, and who is heavier than a strawweight but lighter than a bantamweight


fly·weightBrE /ˈflaɪweɪt/ 🔊NAmE /ˈflaɪweɪt/ 🔊 nouna boxer, wrestler, etc. of the lightest class, usually weighing between 48 and 51 kilograms 特轻量级拳击手,次最轻量级拳击手,最轻量级摔跤手,蝇量级拳击手(体重 48 至 51 公斤之间)