Sport
[spɔːt] or [spɔrt]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) the occupation of athletes who compete for pay.
(noun.) an active diversion requiring physical exertion and competition.
(noun.) someone who engages in sports.
(noun.) a person known for the way she (or he) behaves when teased or defeated or subjected to trying circumstances; 'a good sport'; 'a poor sport'.
(noun.) (Maine colloquial) a temporary summer resident of Maine.
(verb.) wear or display in an ostentatious or proud manner; 'she was sporting a new hat'.
手打:米米--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) That which diverts, and makes mirth; pastime; amusement.
(n.) Mock; mockery; contemptuous mirth; derision.
(n.) That with which one plays, or which is driven about in play; a toy; a plaything; an object of mockery.
(n.) Play; idle jingle.
(n.) Diversion of the field, as fowling, hunting, fishing, racing, games, and the like, esp. when money is staked.
(n.) A plant or an animal, or part of a plant or animal, which has some peculiarity not usually seen in the species; an abnormal variety or growth. See Sporting plant, under Sporting.
(n.) A sportsman; a gambler.
(v. i.) To play; to frolic; to wanton.
(v. i.) To practice the diversions of the field or the turf; to be given to betting, as upon races.
(v. i.) To trifle.
(v. i.) To assume suddenly a new and different character from the rest of the plant or from the type of the species; -- said of a bud, shoot, plant, or animal. See Sport, n., 6.
(v. t.) To divert; to amuse; to make merry; -- used with the reciprocal pronoun.
(v. t.) To represent by any knd of play.
(v. t.) To exhibit, or bring out, in public; to use or wear; as, to sport a new equipage.
(v. t.) To give utterance to in a sportive manner; to throw out in an easy and copious manner; -- with off; as, to sport off epigrams.
凯思琳校對
同義詞及近義詞:
n. [1]. Play, diversion, amusement, pastime, game, fun, frolic, gambol, prank, jest, recreation, hilarity, entertainment, merriment, mirth, jollity, joviality, pleasantry, merry-making.[2]. Mockery, derision, mock, ridicule, contemptuous mirth.
v. n. Play, frolic, disport, wanton, skip, frisk, romp, caper, make fun, make merry.
v. a. [Colloquial.] Exhibit, display, make a show of.
安吉拉校對
同義詞及反義詞:
SYN:Play, frolic, wantonness, joke, diversion, merriment, gaiety, fun, amusement,recreation, game, pastime
ANT:Work, seriousness, business, earnestness
校對:雷明顿
解釋/意思:
v.i. to play: to frolic: to practise field diversions: to trifle.—v.t. to amuse: to make merry: to represent playfully: to spend in sport or display.—n. that which amuses or makes merry: play: mirth: jest: contemptuous mirth: anything for playing with: a toy: idle jingle: field diversion: an animal or plant or one of its organs that varies singularly and spontaneously from the normal type.—n. Sport′er one who sports: a sportsman.—adj. Sport′ful full of sport: merry: full of jesting.—adv. Sport′fully.—n. Sport′fulness.—adj. Sport′ing relating to or engaging in sports.—adv. Sport′ingly.—adj. Sport′ive inclined to sport: playful: merry: amorous wanton.—adv. Sport′ively.—n. Sport′iveness.—adj. Sport′less without sport or mirth: sad.—n. Sports′man one who practises or one skilled in field-sports.—adj. Sports′man-like.—ns. Sports′manship practice or skill of a sportsman; Sports′woman a she-sportsman.—Sport one's oak (see Oak).
編輯:马里奥
例句/造句/用法:
- But now, at hunting and hawking, and each idle sport of wood and river, who so prompt as the Templars in all these fond vanities? 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- I'm glad you think it good sport, brother, she continued, groping wildly through this amazement. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- We enjoyed the sport immensely. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- Is luge-ing your idea of winter sport, sir? 歐尼斯特·海明威. 永別了,武器.
- For the winter sport. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 永別了,武器.
- He left her alone only when he went skiing, a sport he loved, and which she did not practise. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- Why, the sport is but just begun. 簡·奧斯丁. 曼斯費爾德莊園.
- He was famous in field-sports, famous at a song, famous on parade; free with his money, which was bountifully supplied by his father. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of. 簡·奧斯丁. 曼斯費爾德莊園.
- She made it her task to attend the sick, comfort the sorrowing, assist the aged, and partake the sports and awaken the gaiety of the young. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- Her hand is large--it's these modern sports that spread the joints--but the skin is white. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 純真年代.
- The knights and spectators are alike impatient, the time advances, and highly fit it is that the sports should commence. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- All field sports were over. 簡·奧斯丁. 傲慢與偏見.
- At these sports there are usually from four to six bulls sacrificed. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U.S.格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- Less given to detail are the beggars who make sporting ventures. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- Hey, jolly shepherd, come not a-courting, Join will I not in such silly, silly sporting, With a fa-la-la-la, jolly shepherd. 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
- Some of his clothes, papers, handkerchiefs, whips and caps, fishing-rods and sporting gear, were still there. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- Well, Pitt, are you a sporting man? 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- I think I would risk a little sporting flutter that you don't go there at all. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯回憶錄.
- He was somewhat offended--yet sporting. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- He discovered Trenor, in his day clothes, sitting, with a tall glass at his elbow, behind the folds of a sporting journal. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- The days sported by us, as if Time had not grown up himself yet, but were a child too, and always at play. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- He sported a military frock-coat, ornamented with frogs, knobs, black buttons, and meandering embroidery. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- Mine were made by a man in the Haymarket, Bentinck observed, looking down at them with much pride; for he very seldom sported anything new. 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- As Evadne regained her composure, his manner became even gay; he sported with the idea of her poverty. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- But while they in health sported about her, she could cherish contentment and hope. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- Yet I, too, have sported with Amaryllis in the shade, and piped love-songs to the careless ear of Ne?ra. 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
編輯:珀尔