Amuse
[ə'mjuːz] or [ə'mjuz]
解釋/意思:
(verb.) make (somebody) laugh; 'The clown amused the children'.
(verb.) occupy in an agreeable, entertaining or pleasant fashion; 'The play amused the ladies'.
編輯:卡罗尔--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(v.) To occupy or engage the attention of; to lose in deep thought; to absorb; also, to distract; to bewilder.
(v.) To entertain or occupy in a pleasant manner; to stir with pleasing or mirthful emotions; to divert.
(v.) To keep in expectation; to beguile; to delude.
(v. i.) To muse; to mediate.
汉克整理
同義詞及近義詞：
v. a. [1]. Entertain, divert, please, cheer, enliven, solace, beguile, relax, disport.[2]. Deceive (by inspiring false hopes), delude, cheat, inveigle, mislead, impose upon.
哈迪編輯
解釋/意思:
v.t. to occupy pleasantly: to divert: to beguile with expectation: (obs.) occupy the attention with: (arch.) to beguile.—adj. Amus′able capable of being amused.—n. Amuse′ment that which amuses: pastime.—adj. Amus′ing affording amusement: entertaining.—adv. Amus′ingly.—n. Amus′ingness.—adj. Amus′ive (rare) having the power to amuse or entertain.—n. Amus′iveness.
詹尼弗編輯
例句/造句/用法:
- From the window of Worcester's barrack-room I used to amuse myself reviewing our troops, but not after the fashion of Catharine of Russia. 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- Laurie obediently threw himself down on the turf, and began to amuse himself by sticking daisies into the ribbons of Amy's hat, that lay there. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- Read, or do something to amuse you. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- And now I must tell you a little story that will please, and perhaps amuse you. 瑪麗·雪萊. 弗蘭肯斯坦.
- Stir away, it won't hurt me and it may amuse you, as the big man said when his little wife beat him. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- We obeyed, as in duty bound; Adele wanted to take a seat on my knee, but she was ordered to amuse herself with Pilot. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- The Parrys and Sandersons luckily are coming tonight you know, and that will amuse her. 簡·奧斯丁. 理智與情感.
- He had left his sleeping wife; and wanted, as Margaret saw, to be amused and interested by something that she was to tell him. 伊莉莎白·蓋斯凱爾. 南方與北方.
- Edison has always had an amused admiration for Bergmann, and his social side is often made evident by his love of telling stories about those days of struggle. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- Neither Laura nor I were in any favorable disposition to be amused. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- The papers were then brought home again, and the boys amused themselves to their hearts' content until the line was pulled down by a stray cow wandering through the orchard. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- For what did I say to myself arter having amused myself with that there stretch of a comic idea, as a sort of a playful game? 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- This Atticus had an immense fortune, and he amused himself by huge architectural benefactions to various cities. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- At all hours of the day and night the sailors in the forecastle amused themselves and aggravated us by burlesquing our visit to royalty. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- I don't tell amusing stories, he said curtly, and walked across to the piano. 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
- It was very funny, full of amusing and absurd situations; but Gould never smiled once. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- Don't be like Patience on a mantelpiece frowning at Dolls, but sit down, and I'll tell you something that you really will find amusing. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- It was almost as amusing to the Victorian English as the story of Balaam's ass. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- I approved, for my part, the amusing one's self with poetry now and then, so far as to improve one's language, but no farther. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- And there will be amusing things to do. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- I should hope you gentlemen of the army may find many means of amusing yourselves if you give your minds to it. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- I do frequently; when the gestures or looks of a pair seem telling a tale: it amuses me to watch them. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- It amuses me, so let her alone. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- So each consul's family stays at home chiefly and amuses itself as best it can. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- My hair amuses thee now because it is odd. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- Well, who is; but who has good music, and amuses people on Sunday evenings, when the whole of New York is dying of inanition. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 純真年代.
- But if it amuses her I let it a be, but I'm none going to have more stuff poured into her. 伊莉莎白·蓋斯凱爾. 南方與北方.
- Your inexperience really amuses me! 簡·奧斯丁. 愛瑪.
整理:马库斯