gladiatorial

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Capable of seating 50, 000 spectators, the Colosseum was used for gladiatorial contests and public spectacles.
能夠容納50,000觀眾的斗獸場被用來角斗和進(jìn)行公共表演。
Tim Woolgar, the founder of the UK's first chess-boxing gym in north London, said:"Chess is a gladiatorial game, just like boxing.
蒂姆?沃格稱在倫敦北部開創(chuàng)了第一家象棋拳擊體育館，他說：“象棋與拳擊一樣，也是一項(xiàng)格斗運(yùn)動。”
But neither America nor most other democracies offers a spectacle to match the gladiatorial rawness of PMQs, which has itself rarely been so compelling as it is now.
英國首相問答時，雙方就像是未開化的角斗士一樣針鋒相對，這是美國及其他民主國家所不曾有過的場景，而首相問答也從未像現(xiàn)在這樣激烈。

We were standing in line at the Colosseum, that famous landmark of gladiatorial carnage.
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