| 词组 | stadium |
| 释义 | stadium Some people, mindful of the Latin origins of stadium, prefer to give it a Latin plural, stadia, while others are content to treat it as a normal English word with a normal English plural, stadiums. Both plural forms are standard and correct. Stadiums is especially likely to occur when the word is being used in its most familiar sense: • ... addressing huge audiences—some of them in stadiums — N.Y. Times Book Rev., 11 Apr. 1982 • ... into new, spacious, plastic-turfed stadiums —Bill James, Sports Illustrated, 6 Sept. 1982 Stadia is much less common than stadiums in this sense, particularly in speech, but we do have substantial evidence of its written use: • ... operators of many stadia about the country — Melvin Durslag, TV Guide, 11 Oct. 1969 • ... heard in political circles these days almost as much as in football stadia —Neil Amdur, N.Y. Times, 7 Nov. 1970 Most of the other, less common senses of stadium, such as "an ancient Greek unit of length," hark back more clearly to the classical origins of the word and are usually pluralized as stadia: • At the same time in Alexandria, 5,000 stadia distant —Alan Lightman, Science 82, March 1982 For other foreign plurals, see Latin plurals. |
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