| 词汇 | entertained |
| 释义 | entertained past simple and past participle ofentertain 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 entertain entertaining ents go to townidiom kill perform propose push rejoice rejoicing rejoicingly revel revel in something 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 entertain entertaining ents go to townidiom kill perform propose push rejoice rejoicing rejoicingly revel revel in something 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 grapple harbour heart-searching hit on/upon something I/we'll (have to) seeidiom in the cold light of dayidiom introspect navel reckon revisit reweigh rumination run through someone's mind/headidiom scratch your headidiom weigh Examples of entertainedentertained In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. The emperor entertained them and raised the issue of the marble. If a function for the dream experience is entertained, it is a biological or evolutionary one rather than a current concern or immediate psychological one. This request, with its hint of trouble, is often enough to give the minister pause on any individual enthusiasm he may have entertained. It also included some of the bestinformed specialists in the world, a formidable group to be entertained and flattered as well as informed. They also entertained those naval captains who successfully escorted convoys, rewarding them with presents and personally congratulating them in published resolutions in the newspapers. Respondents striving for multilocal adaptation entertained relatively advanced ideals of mobility. For a few of us - including myself - it is an opportunity to learn, or reinforce learning, even as we are entertained. That is, he traces the historical development of the persecution, and of the bizarre fantasies which the minds of the persecutors entertained about their victims. 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. Before considering a possible explanation for the present findings, we briefly survey explanatory schemes that are entertained for inhibition or facilitation of return. Such ideas have been entertained by various authors, using diverse specifications of game and associated concepts of equilibrium. Such mechanisms have not been sufficiently entertained in prior work and, as a result, cause and putative consequence have been all too often confounded. However, there are a few occasions where a different view of phonological features is entertained. 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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