| 词汇 | entertain |
| 释义 | entertain verb uk /en.təˈteɪn/ us /en.t̬ɚˈteɪn/ entertainverb (AMUSE)B1[ I or T ] to keep a group of people interested or enjoying themselves: 使有兴趣;使快乐 We hired a magician to entertain the children.我们雇了一位魔术师表演节目让孩子们开心。 Most children's television programmes aim to educate and entertain at the same time.大多数儿童电视节目都旨在寓教于乐。 Milligan's anarchic humour has always had the power to offend as well as entertain.米里根幽默起来从来是毫无顾忌，让人既生气又好笑。 Year after year they wheel out the same third-rate celebrities to entertain us.年复一年，他们一直让那群三流明星为我们演出。 Should the function of children's television be to entertain or to enlighten?儿童电视节目的作用应该是娱乐还是启蒙？ The crowd was entertained with a display of aerobatics.观众欣赏了特技飞行表演。 The crowds were once again entertained by the number one tennis player's antics on and off the court.这位头号网球运动员在场上场下做的滑稽动作再次把观众逗得开怀不已。 Celebrating & entertaining a good time was had by allidiom amuse amused bacchanalian banqueting bar-hop emcee entertaining ents go to townidiom hoot hostess propose push regale someone with something rejoice rejoicing rejoicingly revel throw You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Causing pleasure entertainverb (INVITE)[ I or T ] to invite someone to your home and give food and drink to them: （在家）招待，款待，请客 We entertain a lot of people, mainly business associates of my wife's.我们经常在家请客，主要都是我妻子的业务伙伴。 Now that I live on my own, I don't entertain much.既然就我一个人生活，我也就不常请人到家里做客。 Celebrating & entertaining a good time was had by allidiom amuse amused bacchanalian banqueting bar-hop emcee entertaining ents go to townidiom hoot hostess propose push regale someone with something rejoice rejoicing rejoicingly revel throw entertainverb (THINK ABOUT)[ Tnot continuous ]formal to hold something in your mind or to be willing to consider or accept something: 怀着;抱有;心存;持有 The General refused to entertain the possibility of defeat.将军拒绝考虑失败的可能性。 Thinking and contemplating a brown studyidiom agonize agonize over/about something beard-stroking bethink harbour hit on/upon something I/we'll (have to) seeidiom in the cold light of dayidiom introspect introspection navel reckon reflection reweigh rumination run through someone's mind/headidiom scratch your headidiom self-contemplation weigh entertain | American Dictionaryentertain verb us/ˌen·tərˈteɪn/ entertainverb (AMUSE)[ I/T ] to keep a person or a group of people interested or amused: [ I ]Children’s games and books seek to teach and entertain at the same time. [ T ]Kerry and Bill entertained listeners of their radio show with tales of their adventures on an ocean cruise. entertainverb (INVITE)[ I/T ] to invite one or more people to your house and give food and drink to them: [ T ]She was a good cook and liked to entertain her friends with new dishes. [ I ]We didn’t entertain much over the holidays this year. entertainverb (THINK ABOUT)[ T ] to hold in your mind or to be willing to consider or accept: He entertained some doubts about how truthful the government was. entertain | Business Englishentertain verb[ I or T ] uk /ˌentəˈteɪn/us to take customers or possible customers out to restaurants, bars, theatres, etc. as a way of encouraging them to do business with you: Employees can use their expense accounts for entertaining a client. Examples of entertainentertain They also entertained those naval captains who successfully escorted convoys, rewarding them with presents and personally congratulating them in published resolutions in the newspapers. The positive experience suggests that interactive graphics programs of this kind make good and entertaining programming exercises for functional programming courses. Respondents striving for multilocal adaptation entertained relatively advanced ideals of mobility. Clastres entertained many hypotheses through his life about what factors might have given rise to the state. Even there, as our fundamentalist campaign poster indicated, diverse and sometimes contradictory values are not only entertained but also trumpeted before the general public. The possibility of lower levels of nortriptyline equalling less adverse side-effects, without significantly reducing efficacy, was entertained. The volume is entertaining in style and content, with a range of relevant and wellproduced illustrations. Before considering a possible explanation for the present findings, we briefly survey explanatory schemes that are entertained for inhibition or facilitation of return. The new festivals offer the same kind of regular festive setting for people to mingle, meet friends, be entertained and barter, buy, and sell goods. As we will see later, only a few of the latter cultivars have been seriously entertained as staple foods. Yes, it is an all-embracing change that will transform the way we do business, the way we are educated, and the way we are entertained. No one entertained the soldier with bread or water. Everyone should agree that natural language is a necessary condition for human beings to be capable of entertaining at least some kinds of thought. Working class older people are expected by policymakers and practitioners to take part in activities and be entertained. On the psychological side, revonsuo seems unaware of the sort of misgivings that might be entertained by behaviorists concerning his research program. See all examples of entertain 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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