table tennis的词源

英文词源

ping-pong (n.)

1900, as Ping-Pong, trademark for table tennis equipment (Parker Brothers). Both words are imitative of the sound of the ball hitting a hard surface; from ping + pong (attested from 1823). It had a "phenomenal vogue" in U.S. c. 1900-1905.

table (n.)

late 12c., "board, slab, plate," from Old French table "board, square panel, plank; writing table; picture; food, fare" (11c.), and late Old English tabele "writing tablet, gaming table," from Germanic *tabal (cognates: Dutch tafel, Danish tavle, Old High German zabel "board, plank," German Tafel). Both the French and Germanic words are from Latin tabula "a board, plank; writing table; list, schedule; picture, painted panel," originally "small flat slab or piece" usually for inscriptions or for games (source also of Spanish tabla, Italian tavola), of uncertain origin, related to Umbrian tafle "on the board."

The sense of "piece of furniture with the flat top and legs" first recorded c. 1300 (the usual Latin word for this was mensa (see mensa); Old English writers used bord (see board (n.1)). Especially the table at which people eat, hence "food placed upon a table" (c. 1400 in English). The meaning "arrangement of numbers or other figures on a tabular surface for convenience" is recorded from late 14c. (as in table of contents, mid-15c.).

Figurative phrase turn the tables (1630s) is from backgammon (in Old and Middle English the game was called tables). Table talk "familiar conversation around a table" is attested from 1560s, translating Latin colloquia mensalis. Table-manners is from 1824. Table-hopping is first recorded 1943. The adjectival phrase under-the-table "hidden from view" is recorded from 1949; to be under the table "passed out from excess drinking" is recorded from 1913. Table tennis "ping-pong" is recorded from 1887. Table-rapping in spiritualism, supposedly an effect of supernatural powers, is from 1853.

中文词源

table tennis：乒乓球

在运动史上，乒乓球运动可以算是一项年轻的体育运动，它只有100多年的历史，比起田径运动（两千年以上）来，它可算是名副其实的后辈。

1890年，几位驻守印度（India）的英国海军（navy）军官偶然发觉在一张不大的台子上玩网球（tennis）颇为刺激。后来他们改用空心的小皮球代替弹性不大的实心球，并用木板代替了网拍，在桌子上进行这种新颖的“网球赛”，这就是table tennis得名的由来。

Table tennis出现不久，便成了一种风靡一时的热门运动。20世纪初，美国开始成套地生产乒乓球的比赛用具。最初，table tennis有其它名称，如Indoor tennis。后来，一位美国制造商以乒乓球撞击时所发出的声音创造出ping-pong这个新词，作为他制造的“乒乓球”专利注册商标。Ping-pong后来成了table tennis的另一个正式名称。当它传到中国后，人们又创造出“乒乓球”这个新的词语，这是因其打击时发出“ping pang”的声音而得名。

在日语里，乒乓球叫做“桌球”。乒乓球运动的很多用词是从网球变来的。打乒乓球所用的球叫ping-pong ball或table-tennis ball，乒乓球台叫ping-pong table，台面称court，中间的球网称net，支撑球网的架子叫net support。

乒乓球单人比赛一般采取三局两胜或五局三胜制，所谓“局”，英文是set。发球叫serve。

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