Game
[geɪm] or [ɡem]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) an amusement or pastime; 'they played word games'; 'he thought of his painting as a game that filled his empty time'; 'his life was all fun and games'.
(noun.) a contest with rules to determine a winner; 'you need four people to play this game'.
(noun.) a single play of a sport or other contest; 'the game lasted two hours'.
(noun.) frivolous or trifling behavior; 'for actors, memorizing lines is no game'; 'for him, life is all fun and games'.
(noun.) your occupation or line of work; 'he's in the plumbing game'; 'she's in show biz'.
(noun.) animal hunted for food or sport.
(noun.) the game equipment needed in order to play a particular game; 'the child received several games for his birthday'.
(noun.) the flesh of wild animals that is used for food.
(noun.) (games) the score at a particular point or the score needed to win; 'the game is 6 all'; 'he is serving for the game'.
(noun.) (tennis) a division of play during which one player serves.
(adj.) willing to face danger .
校對:潘西--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) Crooked; lame; as, a game leg.
(v. i.) Sport of any kind; jest, frolic.
(v. i.) A contest, physical or mental, according to certain rules, for amusement, recreation, or for winning a stake; as, a game of chance; games of skill; field games, etc.
(v. i.) The use or practice of such a game; a single match at play; a single contest; as, a game at cards.
(v. i.) That which is gained, as the stake in a game; also, the number of points necessary to be scored in order to win a game; as, in short whist five points are game.
(v. i.) In some games, a point credited on the score to the player whose cards counts up the highest.
(v. i.) A scheme or art employed in the pursuit of an object or purpose; method of procedure; projected line of operations; plan; project.
(v. i.) Animals pursued and taken by sportsmen; wild meats designed for, or served at, table.
(a.) Having a resolute, unyielding spirit, like the gamecock; ready to fight to the last; plucky.
(a.) Of or pertaining to such animals as are hunted for game, or to the act or practice of hunting.
(n.) To rejoice; to be pleased; -- often used, in Old English, impersonally with dative.
(n.) To play at any sport or diversion.
(n.) To play for a stake or prize; to use cards, dice, billiards, or other instruments, according to certain rules, with a view to win money or other thing waged upon the issue of the contest; to gamble.
桃瑞丝整理
同義詞及近義詞：
n. [1]. Sport, play, amusement, pastime.[2]. Plan, scheme, enterprise, adventure, undertaking, measure.[3]. Animals of the chase.[4]. Quarry, prey.
a. Courageous, brave, resolute, unflinching, fearless, valorous, chivalrous, dauntless, intrepid, gallant, heroic.
v. n. Gamble, play for money.
手打:瓦内萨
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Sport, recreation, pastime, amusement, frolic, diversion, play
ANT:Study, toil, labor, business, duty, weariness, flagging
校對:鲁珀特
解釋/意思:
adj. (slang) crooked lame.
n. sport of any kind: an exercise or contest for recreation or amusement esp. athletic contests: the stake in a game: the manner of playing a game: the requisite number of points to be gained to win a game: jest sport trick artifice: any object of pursuit or desire: (Shak.) gallantry: the spoil of the chase: wild animals protected by law and hunted by sportsmen the flesh of such—hares pheasants partridges grouse blackcock.—adj. of or belonging to such animals as are hunted as game: plucky courageous: (slang) having the spirit to do something.—v.i. to gamble.—ns. Game′-bag a bag for holding a sportsman's game also the whole amount of game taken at one time; Game′cock a cock trained to fight; Game′keeper one who has the care of game.—n.pl. Game′-laws laws relating to the protection of certain animals called game.—adv. Gamely.—ns. Game′ness; Game′-preserv′er one who preserves game on his property for his own sport or profit.—adj. Game′some playful.—ns. Game′someness sportiveness: merriment; Game′ster one viciously addicted to gambling: a gambler; Game′-ten′ant one who rents the privilege of shooting or fishing over a particular estate or district; Gam′ing gambling; Gam′ing-house a gambling-house a hell; Gam′ing-tā′ble a table used for gambling.—adj. Gam′y having the flavour of dead game kept till tainted: (coll.) spirited plucky.—Big game the larger animals hunted; Die game to keep up courage to the last; Make a game of to play with real energy or skill; Make game of to make sport of to ridicule; Red game the Scotch ptarmigan; Round game a game as at cards in which the number of players is not fixed; The game is not worth the candle (see Candle); The game is up the game is started: the scheme has failed.
黛安娜校對
娱乐性解釋/意思：
To dream of game, either shooting or killing or by other means, denotes fortunate undertakings; but selfish motions; if you fail to take game on a hunt, it denotes bad management and loss.
巴尔托迪編輯
例句/造句/用法:
- You made a quiet little round game of it, among a family group, and you played it out at leisure. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- At every court there were groups of ministers and secretaries who played a Machiavellian game against their foreign rivals. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Anybody here seen anything of any such game? 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- They all rose up in preparation for a round game. 簡·奧斯丁. 理智與情感.
- From then on scarcely a day passed that did not bring its offering of game or other food. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- That is big game. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- Ah, my good sir, you'll have to try the race again and again,--the game isn't there. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- Truth isn't a bad game, said Fred. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- The whole game was one of subtle inter-suggestivity, and they wanted to keep it on the plane of suggestion. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- Mr. Sam Wynne coming up with great haste, to insist on the elder girls joining in the game as well as the younger ones, Caroline was again left alone. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- With all the chances thus in our favour I confronted the next emergency, and played the second move in the game. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- The poor relations caught the people who they thought would like it, and, when the game flagged, got caught themselves. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- This game was brought from Holland by those colonists who settled Manhattan Island in 1623. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- I know every move of your game. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯回憶錄.
- It was an open move in the game, and played fairly. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- We bought books and magazines in the town and a copy of Hoyle and learned many two-handed card games. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 永別了,武器.
- I'd like to play a few more games at billiards with him. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- The captain was having a great success with finger games. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 永別了,武器.
- No games to-morrow! 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- No, no; we both hate silent games that only keep one's hands employed, don't we? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- When you were carrying on some games up at the top of the house. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- I spent no time in taverns, games, or frolics of any kind, and my industry in my business continued as indefatigable as it was necessary. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- A few days only elapsed, however, before we were dragged forth from our dungeon for the great games. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
- I have got the run of Queer Street now, and you shall see some games there. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- Have games till it's cooler. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- That you will be thrown to the wild calots [dogs] in the great arena as soon as the hordes have assembled for the yearly games. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
- Agnes played the piano to him, sat by him, and worked and talked, and played some games at dominoes with me. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- It is not enough just to introduce plays and games, hand work and manual exercises. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- Mankind has certainly come nearer to justifying Mr. Chesterton's observation that one of its favorite games is called Cheat the Prophet. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- Naturally this astonished me very much, as he is a man who cares little or nothing for the ordinary games, with the single exception of parcheesi, of which he is very fond. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
整理:威廉