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- chiefly historical a pre-arranged contest with deadly weapons between two people in order to settle a point of honour〈主史〉决斗。
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- (in modern use) a contest or race between two parties现代用法（双方的）比赛, 竞赛：
he won by a short head after a great final-furlong duel.
经过最后一弗隆的激烈竞争, 他以领先不到一个马头的距离取得了胜利。
(duelled, duelling; <美> dueled, dueling) no obj.
- fight a duel or duels决斗：
as noun duelling duelling had been forbidden for serving officers.现役军官不得决斗。
派生词
dueller
（〈美〉 dueler）nounduellist
（〈美〉 duelist）noun词源
late 15th cent.: from Latin duellum, archaic and literary from of bellum 'war', used in medieval Latin with the meaning 'combat between two persons', partly influenced by dualis 'of two'. The original sense was 'single combat used to decide a judicial dispute'; the sense 'contest to decide a point of honour' dates from the early 17th cent.