| 词汇 | relay |
| 词源 | relay. Today’s track relay races have their etymological origin in hunting, where packs of fresh hounds were held at strategic points along a hunting route so that they could relieve the hounds that tired. In fact, the word relay derives ultimately from the obsolete French verb relayer, meaning “to loose the hounds.” |
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