| 词汇 | example_english_plaything |
| 释义 | Examples of playthingThese examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. Why characterise these skills as the playthings of individualism? They were made into playthings and were put to better use by ladies going about their shopping. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Schools cannot he treated as party political playthings. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They are individuals, as we have heard, and not chattels or playthings. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I have known them in peace when it has sometimes seemed, wrongly no doubt, that they have been the playthings of politics. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I am not aware that any tricycles are stored on open waste ground and used by children as playthings. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They are not our playthings, or those of councillors. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I emphasise that many people have struggled hard to get the railways operating; they are not rich men and women's playthings. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 However, these are becoming a minority, outnumbered by those who acquire dogs as status symbols or as playthings for their children. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We ought to be ashamed to see our great industries become political playthings. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We all wish nothing but the best for the people of that unhappy country, who are being used as the playthings of some thoroughly nasty individuals. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Are they to be playthings? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We are both playthings and despots. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Children, even, seemed familiar with the monsters of the microscope, and talked of them as glibly as of their playthings and the chemical elements. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. They no longer make kits, but playthings for toddlers. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. When girls were about to marry and when boys reached adolescence, it was customary for them to dedicate their playthings to deities. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The water panther came growling after them, vigorously accusing them of stealing the playthings of his children. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. He possesses a fourth-dimensional pocket from which he can acquire various kinds of futuristic tools, gadgets, and playthings from a future department store. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Disembark and you are a world away from the plastic, risk free playthings of your local park. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. On display are dolls and playthings from the last 100 years as well as everyday objects from the 1950s. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Toy soldiers vary from simple playthings to highly realistic and detailed models. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. By the eleventh century dolls were used as playthings as well as for protection and in religious ceremonies. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Traditional dolls are sometimes used as children's playthings, but they may also have spiritual, magical and ritual value. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. They are playing a pointless game with unending time of which they are the playthings. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Money obtained through sponsors was used to buy gifts like a carrom board, balloons, football, cricket bats and other playthings, and also a cake. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Representations, both stereotypical and realistic, fashioned into playthings, date back centuries. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Dolls have traditionally been made as crude, rudimentary playthings as well as with elaborate, artful design. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Red foxes seem to dislike the taste of moles, but will nonetheless catch them alive and present them to their kits as playthings. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Unfortunately these women are objectified and are seen as nothing but playthings for many men in the story. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Antique dolls which were originally made as children's playthings have become collector's items. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. They have been made as crude, rudimentary playthings as well as elaborate art. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Women are mere playthings to him, plus he's a master con man. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Memory and the past, mortality, longing, childhood, time, space, geography and loneliness, are all the poet's playthings. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Not all dolls were playthings. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. With most cats, it is wise to keep playthings at least 20 cm (8) away from fingers or eyes, and avoid encouraging a cat to eat inedible toys. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Swirling within the doldrums of his ponderous age, the deity has become bored and seeks to satiate his loneliness by mindlessly toying with the fates of his human playthings. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. When they are fun and engaging, playthings and spaces are said to have play value; those that are quickly discarded or are considered uninteresting do not. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Far from being out of politics, housing in recent years has been riddled by politics and become its plaything. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The dictionary tells me that it is a child's plaything, a trifle, a matter of no importance. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The second is to stop making the education service the plaything of party politicians. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They feel that their future is being made the plaything of party politics in this country. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I protest that the defences of this country have been used as a plaything in the battle for personal power. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We want the mayor to have the powers and the political independence, not to feel that he is the plaything of politicians. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We ought to have a definite policy, and it should be an agreed policy, not the plaything of parties. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 A serious industry has become a plaything of political expediency. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Pensions are far too serious a subject to be the plaything of party politics. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The politics of the cold war should be over and the tube should not be the plaything of politicians. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I do not want this industry to become the plaything of politicians. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Secondly, there are women of low intelligence who regard a baby as a plaything—something that they absolutely must have. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Our voting system should not be made the plaything of a single political party. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We do not believe that standing orders should be the plaything of a party with only a bare majority in the assembly. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We are not the plaything of economic forces. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I am sure that he would wish to be freed from outside pressures which make pensions a political plaything. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We cannot accept that matters of individual and environmental health should become the plaything of the stock exchange. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The constitution should not be a political plaything for party gain. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Children will find this new plaything or toy. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Is housing to be the plaything of politicians for criticising each other, or is it something that we genuinely desire? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 By and large, they were denied access to the world marketplace and heavily subsidised; they became the plaything of politicians and trade unions. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There is no question whatever of the steel industry, in the future, because it is being conducted privately, becoming a plaything of the stock market. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 One cannot really have this made a plaything of political whimsy like this. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 A defence policy is not a plaything. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Voluntary hospitals became the plaything of those people who had money to spare, and felt that they would like to donate it to some good cause. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I have always taken the view that agriculture was too big an issue and the administrative difficulties were too big to be made the sport and plaything of party politics. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 In fact, he has become their plaything. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Was the land to become the plaything of the nation, or was it going to be used to produce all that it could of food or timber? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 All this indicates one thing, namely, that something which should be considered as a highly technical and commercial field of enterprise has been turned into a political plaything. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They look upon it as a plaything. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The result was quasi-parodistic language that often led to meaningless verses ("non-significanza") and the so-called art as a plaything in itself. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Because if they were able to preserve their lives, then they had already obtained a plaything of sorts. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The original little bough is no longer recognizable; it has become a childs plaything very pretty to see. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The child is asked to think of the cleverest, most interesting and most unusual uses of the given toy, other than as a plaything. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Expenditure calls for taxes, and taxes are the plaything of the tariff reformer. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Otherwise, we are simply spinning our wheels, and music becomes just another plaything, a hobby, an elitist way of putting down the uninitiated. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The nation is the plaything of this cabinet. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Until the 1890s, the bicycle had been the plaything of wealthy young men. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Treating the departed as nothing more than a plaything for the fulfillment of one's most twisted desires almost erases any grander theme. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. On his search for a new plaything, he is hit by a car. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Death becomes a plaything for a heroic personality here. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Infinite networks are largely of only theoretical interest and are the plaything of mathematicians. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The plaything is actually a landmine, designed to look like a toy. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. His life, hitherto a child's plaything, devoid of directionseemingly! From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The corporate state, he came to believe, would rule in the interests of the whole nation, whereas democracy was the plaything of special interests and privilege. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. In all of these disciplines he has sought to track down the motivations of human behavior and the mechanisms of which men and women are unwittingly the plaything. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Asakura is her pint-size prisoner/plaything! From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Without freewill we seem diminished, merely the playthings of external causes. They also helped set and clear their tables, clean their quarters, and put away their playthings. Collective movement was no longer the result of initiatives on the part of individuals, but of the unpredictable and fatal logic of events of which individuals were mere playthings. Here too gravity is regarded as the plaything of the intellect. Whether these libraries will become a model for the reform of a public library system which has become the plaything of politicians is another matter. The play, literally, is their plaything. In less than a century the world of sound-recording had expanded from a plaything for amateurs to a world-wide billion-dollar industry, and it looks set to stay that way. Etymologies are traces, their semantic implications the plaything of politicians; but one can at least read the evidence of lexical influence around a politically inflected semantics. While believing that she is principled and honourable, she lacks self-knowledge and is a plaything of her emotions, making her grand statements ludicrous through the intensity of her feelings. The real culprits are those who organise illegal immigration, in whose hands those people hoping to emigrate are merely the playthings of a script that could easily become a tragedy. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English Follow your social heart and ensure that the internal market becomes a market for everyone, not just the plaything of large companies. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English We will not allow human rights to become a plaything for populist scaremongering. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English Commercial services are one thing, but core public services, like social housing and welfare provision, are something quite different and should not be the plaything of profit-driven providers. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English We must make them accountable to the regional chambers but not their playthings. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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