Word · Frequency #4895
soccer
英式足球
a football game in which two teams of 11 players try to kick or head a ball into the opponents' goal
In use
I play soccer every weekend with my friends.
She watches soccer matches on TV almost every night.
He scored the winning goal in the soccer championship.
play soccer
I play soccer every weekend.
我每周末踢英式足球。
a soccer match/game
We watched a soccer match last night.
我们昨晚看了一场英式足球比赛。
a soccer player
注意：在美式英语中，"soccer"通常指英式足球，而"football"指美式橄榄球。
He is a professional soccer player.
他是一名职业英式足球运动员。
Common mistakes
He plays football.He plays soccer.
中文的“足球”可指代英式足球(soccer)和美式足球(football)，但在英语中soccer专指英式足球，football常指美式橄榄球，需根据语境选择正确词汇。
I play the soccer.I play soccer.
在英语中，表示进行球类运动时，球类名词前通常不加冠词，如play soccer, play basketball。
Connections
Collocations
- play soccer
- 踢足球
- I like to play soccer after school.我喜欢放学后踢足球。
- soccer player
- 足球运动员
- He is a professional soccer player.他是一名职业足球运动员。
- soccer team
- 足球队
- Our school soccer team won the championship.我们学校足球队赢得了冠军。
- soccer ball
- 足球
- The kids kicked the soccer ball across the field.孩子们把足球踢过场地。
- soccer game
- 足球赛
- We watched an exciting soccer game last night.我们昨晚看了一场精彩的足球赛。
Idioms & figurative uses
Learner notes
Memory Tip
联想‘soc’像‘sock’，踢足球常穿长袜，记住soccer是英式足球。
Context & Register
中性词，常用于体育、新闻等语境。在美式英语中更为常用，英式英语中通常使用 football 表示同一运动。
Grammar Note
不可数名词
Pronunciation & Spelling
These words rhyme with 'soccer' because they have the same stressed vowel /ɒ/ and ending /kə/. However, be careful of lookalikes like 'sucker' (/ˈsʌkə/) which sounds different.
Usage priority
Collins 词频等级为 3，建议结合例句记忆，而不是只背中文释义。
Learn the forms together
页面下方列出了常见词形变化。学习时注意它们在句子中的语法位置。
Dictionary facts from ECDICT, WIKTIONARY.