black belt

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The highest belt colour in various martial arts.
  2. A geographic region where the residents are predominantly or exclusively African-American. Southern,US
    — Bernard Cosman found that in Georgia, it was the black belt whites who gave Goldwater his largest percentage of the vote.
  3. Someone who has attained the black belt in martial arts.
    — Raymond is a black belt in karate.
  4. A roughly crescent-shaped geological formation of dark fertile soil in the Southern United States.
    — The Black Belt region, also called the Black Prairie, extends 300 miles across central Alabama and northeast Mississippi and into Tennessee. […] The dark soil for which the Black Belt was named was once famous for its richness and the abundant cotton produced in it.
  5. Great skill in any field. colloquial,figuratively
  6. A senior manager who is expert in one of various management systems such as Six Sigma or DMAIC and acts in a project leader or mentor role.
    — I had the good fortune of being engaged to participate as a trainer to GE Capital Corporation, where we helped to launch their now well-known and highly regarded black belt program.

词形变化

black belts plural black belts plural Black Belt alternative

词源

词源 1
Calque of Japanese 黒帯 (kuroobi)
词源 2
From black + belt, originally named after the dark soil.
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