Whist
[wɪst]
解釋/意思:
(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
解釋/意思:
(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
同義詞及近義詞:
interj. Hush, silence, be still, be silent, keep quiet, make no noise.
埃琳娜整理
解釋/意思:
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/造句/用法:
- They can't sit over their wine, they can't play at whist, and they can't pay a lady a compliment. 威爾基·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. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- You play at whist, Mr. Hartright? 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- Whist and speculation; which will amuse me most? 簡·奧斯丁. 曼斯費爾德莊園.
- 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. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- 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. 簡·奧斯丁. 理智與情感.
- He was a whist player himself, and perhaps might feel that it would not much amuse him to have her for a partner. 簡·奧斯丁. 曼斯費爾德莊園.
- 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·薩克雷. 名利場.
- The doctor took snuff with everybody, chatted with everybody, laughed, danced, made jokes, played whist, did everything, and was everywhere. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- She hates whist I know; but is there no round game she cares for? 簡·奧斯丁. 理智與情感.
- You will not like us at Middlemarch, I feel sure, she said, when the whist-players were settled. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- You see, I can leave the whist-table easily enough, he went on, smiling at Lydgate, now I don't play for money. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- You will want your whist at home when we go to Lowick, and Henrietta Noble never was a whist-player. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- At the Vincys' there was always whist, and the card-tables stood ready now, making some of the company secretly impatient of the music. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- It was shown that, after dinner on the day of his death, he had played a rubber of whist at the latter club. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
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