Entertainment
[entə'teɪnm(ə)nt] or ['ɛntɚ'tenmənt]
解釋/意思:
(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.
阿德莱德手打
同義詞及近義詞：
n. [1]. Hospitable treatment.[2]. Feast, banquet, treat, COLLATION, festival.[3]. Amusement, diversion, recreation, pastime.
編輯:桑德拉
娱乐性解釋/意思：
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.
本杰明錄入
娱乐性解釋/意思：
n. Any kind of amusement whose inroads stop short of death by injection.
阿玛莉亚整理
例句/造句/用法:
- Selden, catching the glance, wondered what part Miss Bart had played in organizing the entertainment. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- This being evidently the central point of the entertainment, Aunt Chloe began now to bustle about earnestly in the supper department. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- It was good entertainment; but only half-enjoyed, since I was alone: you should have been there. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- 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. 科學通論.
- 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. 簡·奧斯丁. 愛瑪.
- I believe I and my family have also had the honour of furnishing some entertainment in the same grave place, said my guardian composedly. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- The management beg leave to offer to the public an entertainment surpassing in magnificence any thing that has heretofore been attempted on any stage. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- Gerald, who was spokesman, said that they would willingly take part in the entertainment. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- The man is by trade a conjurer and performer, going round the canteens after nightfall, and giving a little entertainment at each. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯回憶錄.
- 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. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- Christians upon a journey were always sure of a warm welcome and hospitable entertainment from their fellow-disciples. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- 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. 神奇的知識之書.
- Some rousing choruses struck me as the best part of the evening's entertainment. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- 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·薩克雷. 名利場.
- 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. 喬納森·斯威夫特. 格列佛遊記.
- 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·薩克雷. 名利場.
- 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·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- They were much given to festivals and shows, and, in particular, they were addicted to bull-fights and gymnastic entertainments. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- 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·薩克雷. 名利場.
- 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·薩克雷. 名利場.
- 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·薩克雷. 名利場.
- All parties and entertainments, of course, were to be put off. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
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