Hobby
['hɒbɪ] or ['hɑbi]
解释:
(noun.) small Old World falcon formerly trained and flown at small birds.
(noun.) a child's plaything consisting of an imitation horse mounted on rockers; the child straddles it and pretends to ride.
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解释:
(n.) A small, strong-winged European falcon (Falco subbuteo), formerly trained for hawking.
(n.) Alt. of Hobbyhorse
校对:内尔
同义词及近义词:
n. [1]. Hobby-horse.[2]. Favorite object, favorite pursuit.
校对:齐利格
同义词及反义词:
SYN:Limp, falter
ANT:Bun, course, speed, leap
录入:罗莎莉
解释:
n. a small species of falcon.
n. a strong active horse: a pacing horse: a subject on which one is constantly setting off as in 'to ride' or 'to mount a hobby:' a favourite pursuit.—n. Hobb′y-horse a stick or figure of a horse on which boys ride: one of the chief parts played in the ancient morris-dance: (Shak.) a term of contempt for a loose and frivolous person male or female.—adj. Hobb′y-hor′sical having a hobby: eccentric.—ns. Hobb′yism; Hobb′yist one who rides a hobby.—adj. Hobb′yless.
校对:迈克尔
例句:
- Well, a taste for society's just another kind of hobby. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
- What is to me a means of livelihood is to him the merest hobby of a dilettante. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
- He was of mechanical turn of mind, with an intense hobby for painful accuracy. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- I thought the most expensive hobby in the world was standing for Parliament, said Mrs. Cadwallader. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
- It is a hobby of mine to have an exact knowledge of London. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
- It was also named the Dandy and the Hobby Horse. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
- The hobby he had at the time I was there, says Edison, was the aging of raw whiskey by passing strong electric currents through it. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- Why, yes, my dear, it was quite your hobby to draw plans. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
- I have no hobby besides. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
- That's your hobby, and you don't mind the expense. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
- My own hobby has always been nervous disease. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
- Mrs. Fisher's latest hobby was municipal reform. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
- Hobbies are apt to ran away with us, you know; it doesn't do to be run away with. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
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