| 词汇 | crossword |
| 释义 | crossword noun[ C ] uk /ˈkrɒs.wɜːd/ us /ˈkrɑːs.wɝːd/(alsocrossword puzzle) a game in which you write words that are the answers to questions in a pattern of black and white squares: 纵横填字游戏 do the crossword I do the Times crossword every morning.我每天早上都要做《泰晤士报》上的填字游戏。 Jenny Dettrick/Moment/GettyImages Miscellaneous games & activities air hockey beer pong belly dancing bran tub buildering cage diving charade Frisbee horseshoe in-game inline inline skate inline skating inventory pinball machine RPG sandbox scavenger hunt screen time shoot-em-up Examples of crosswordcrossword One group performed the task once, whereas the other performed a second crossword puzzle 3 weeks after the first one. For example, on a relatively small scale, activities such as solving jigsaw or crossword puzzles are valuable in themselves. In cryptic crosswords this phenomenon is taken to an extreme. As when completing crossword puzzles, each attribute can be practised, improved, and honed to perfection. Significant increases in participation were seen for the oldest age group (aged 85+ years) in restaurant visits, cultural activities, study circles and crossword puzzles. In crossword clues, the latter may fall outside what would normally be considered a word's potential range. The structure of the running narrative can be compared to a crossword puzzle. Second, the crossword puzzle promotes some form of behavioral or cognitive change (subjective awareness) due to the design and format of the task. Every now and then, just for a change, she did crosswords. Others completed a daily crossword or memorised facts or poems in order to remain mentally active and prevent dementia. In this respect the crossword is similar to other types of puzzles. People, like me, who like to do crossword puzzles, find value in the whole act of doing the puzzle. The 29 children in the class were put into pairs and each child was given a crossword with half the clues completed. The task was to explain their words to their partner and thus complete the crossword. Two groups were told that the crossword puzzles contained irregular forms, and two groups were not. 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. |
| 随便看 |
|
反思网英语在线翻译词典收录了377474条英语词汇在线翻译词条，基本涵盖了全部常用英语词汇的中英文双语翻译及用法，是英语学习的有利工具。