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Capable of seating 50, 000 spectators, the Colosseum was used for gladiatorial contests and public spectacles.
能够容纳50,000观众的斗兽场被用来角斗和进行公共表演。
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•沃格称在伦敦北部开创了第一家象棋拳击体育馆，他说：“象棋与拳击一样，也是一项格斗运动。”
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.
英国首相问答时，双方就像是未开化的角斗士一样针锋相对，这是美国及其他民主国家所不曾有过的场景，而首相问答也从未像现在这样激烈。

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