英语词汇regatta的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	regatta
词源	regatta. A regatta was initially, back in the 17th century, a race between gondolas on the Grand Canal in Venice. This Ve- netian dialect word translates as “a strife or contention or struggling for mastery.” The first English regatta, or yacht race, was held on the River Thames on June 23, 1775.
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