Whist
[wɪst]
解释:
(noun.) a card game for four players who form two partnerships; a pack of 52 cards is dealt and each side scores one point for each trick it takes in excess of six.
手打:珀西瓦尔--From WordNet
解释:
(interj.) Be silent; be still; hush; silence.
(n.) A certain game at cards; -- so called because it requires silence and close attention. It is played by four persons (those who sit opposite each other being partners) with a complete pack of fifty-two cards. Each player has thirteen cards, and when these are played out, he hand is finished, and the cards are again shuffled and distributed.
(v. t.) To hush or silence.
(v. i.) To be or become silent or still; to be hushed or mute.
(a.) Not speaking; not making a noise; silent; mute; still; quiet.
布兰得利整理
同义词及近义词:
interj. Hush, silence, be still, be silent, keep quiet, make no noise.
埃琳娜整理
解释:
adj. hushed: silent.—v.i. to become silent.—v.t. (Spens.) to hush or silence.—interj. hush! silence! be still!
n. a well-known game at cards played with the whole pack by two against two.—ns. Whist′-play play in the game of whist; Whist′-play′er.—Dummy whist (see Dummy); Five point Whist whist played without counting honours; Long whist a game of ten points with honours counting; Short whist the game of five points without honours.
凯西整理
例句:
- They can't sit over their wine, they can't play at whist, and they can't pay a lady a compliment. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- I shall be too busy for whist; I shall have two parishes, said the Vicar, preferring not to discuss the virtues of that game. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
- You play at whist, Mr. Hartright? 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- Whist and speculation; which will amuse me most? 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.
- At seventy five I expect to wear loud waistcoats with fancy buttons; also gaiter tops; at eighty I expect to learn how to play bridge whist and talk foolishly to the ladies. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- The former left them soon after tea to fulfill her evening engagements; and Elinor was obliged to assist in making a whist table for the others. 简·奥斯汀. 理智与情感.
- He was a whist player himself, and perhaps might feel that it would not much amuse him to have her for a partner. 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.
- They had solemn rubbers of whist, when they went upstairs after drinking, and their carriages were called at half past ten. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
- The doctor took snuff with everybody, chatted with everybody, laughed, danced, made jokes, played whist, did everything, and was everywhere. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
- She hates whist I know; but is there no round game she cares for? 简·奥斯汀. 理智与情感.
- You will not like us at Middlemarch, I feel sure, she said, when the whist-players were settled. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
- You see, I can leave the whist-table easily enough, he went on, smiling at Lydgate, now I don't play for money. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
- You will want your whist at home when we go to Lowick, and Henrietta Noble never was a whist-player. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
- At the Vincys' there was always whist, and the card-tables stood ready now, making some of the company secretly impatient of the music. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
- It was shown that, after dinner on the day of his death, he had played a rubber of whist at the latter club. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
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