Entertainment
[entə'teɪnm(ə)nt] or ['ɛntɚ'tenmənt]
解释:
(n.) The act of receiving as host, or of amusing, admitting, or cherishing; hospitable reception; also, reception or treatment, in general.
(n.) That which entertains, or with which one is entertained; as: (a) Hospitality; hospitable provision for the wants of a guest; especially, provision for the table; a hospitable repast; a feast; a formal or elegant meal. (b) That which engages the attention agreeably, amuses or diverts, whether in private, as by conversation, etc., or in public, by performances of some kind; amusement.
(n.) Admission into service; service.
(n.) Payment of soldiers or servants; wages.
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同义词及近义词：
n. [1]. Hospitable treatment.[2]. Feast, banquet, treat, COLLATION, festival.[3]. Amusement, diversion, recreation, pastime.
编辑:桑德拉
娱乐性解释：
To dream of an entertainment where there is music and dancing, you will have pleasant tidings of the absent, and enjoy health and prosperity. To the young, this is a dream of many and varied pleasures and the high regard of friends.
本杰明录入
娱乐性解释：
n. Any kind of amusement whose inroads stop short of death by injection.
阿玛莉亚整理
例句:
- Selden, catching the glance, wondered what part Miss Bart had played in organizing the entertainment. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
- This being evidently the central point of the entertainment, Aunt Chloe began now to bustle about earnestly in the supper department. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
- It was good entertainment; but only half-enjoyed, since I was alone: you should have been there. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
- Books with their wealth of entertainment and information would be sealed to a large part of mankind, if glasses did not assist weak eyes. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
- But (lowering her voice)nobody speaks except ourselves, and it is rather too much to be talking nonsense for the entertainment of seven silent people. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
- I believe I and my family have also had the honour of furnishing some entertainment in the same grave place, said my guardian composedly. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
- The management beg leave to offer to the public an entertainment surpassing in magnificence any thing that has heretofore been attempted on any stage. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
- Gerald, who was spokesman, said that they would willingly take part in the entertainment. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
- The man is by trade a conjurer and performer, going round the canteens after nightfall, and giving a little entertainment at each. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
- But I was restlessly curious to look at her--so curious that I felt it to be one of the few sources of entertainment left to me. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
- Christians upon a journey were always sure of a warm welcome and hospitable entertainment from their fellow-disciples. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- The industry employs many thousands of people in the manufacture of these instruments and records which afford entertainment, instruction and amusement to the entire world. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- Some rousing choruses struck me as the best part of the evening's entertainment. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
- And she brought him in the Morning Post, with the names of all the great people who had figured at Lord Steyne's entertainment the night before. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
- But it is impossible to express the satisfaction I received in my own mind, after such a manner as to make it a suitable entertainment to the reader. 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
- Poor little Amelia never missed one of these entertainments and thought them delicious so long as she might have Georgy sitting by her. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
- He considered that the freedom of entertainments takes away all distinction of office, and that dignity is but little consistent with familiarity. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- They were much given to festivals and shows, and, in particular, they were addicted to bull-fights and gymnastic entertainments. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- There was a ball after the dramatic entertainments, and everybody pressed round Becky as the great point of attraction of the evening. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
- During these delectable entertainments, Miss Wirt and the chaperon sate by, and conned over the peerage, and talked about the nobility. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
- Mrs. Crawley, who had her carriage, gave entertainments, and lived in a very genteel manner, occupied another suite of apartments in the same hotel. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
- All parties and entertainments, of course, were to be put off. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
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