| 词汇 | example_english_entertain |
| 释义 | Examples of entertainThese 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. 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. He noted that [although] the arts as well as being [can be] entertaining [they] are also rich in emotional insight. Contemporary problems had therefore to be presented in as direct and entertaining a manner as possible. Any success depended on entertaining whatever audiences were available, at juke joints, house parties and as a street entertainer. In order to meet this aim, the book should be both readable and entertaining to the general birdwatcher who may wish to purchase it. The first shows the electors drinking, eating and being entertained at the expense of the candidates. Other models for the relationship between gene trees and genome and organismal evolution that can account for existing reliable comparative genomic data should be entertained. Even the typos are entertaining : one wonders who the ' pronominal critics ' are (126). Reasons for participating in seasonal events included "seeming fun" (22 respondents, 71.0%), "recreative" (18 respondents, 58.1%), and "being entertaining" (15 respondents, 48.4%). Being a jovial person, she encouraged individuals to talk and everyone felt relaxed, entertained, and comfortable with her. The inhabitants of this milieu entertained shared ideas, symbols, and imagery that shaped their understanding of reality. He too is willing on occasion to be entertaining at the expense of the academy. However, a process (unit) of production need not be in direct contact with all the other processes (units) it entertains exchange relations with. Wittgensteinian philosophy of religion, in this context, in entertaining such a suggestion. There are many people who exhibit this unintentional altruism without entertaining religious thoughts or beliefs. Who were the patrons responsible for entertaining this institutional support and what motivated them? In turn, we are justified in entertaining the possibility that ek'emey actually was the reading of the verb in ancient times. He entertains the possibility of (rational) counterpreferential choice, even when preferences or goals include "moral objectives". The information is the basis for a query, suggestion, decision, or inference entertained by the speaker. Perfect competition in goods and factor markets, especially in energy and labor markets, is abandoned and the possibility of endogenizing technical progress is entertained. Besides their usefulness, these sections, like the other extra material, are entertaining. They entertained them, held long discussions with them, and even-occasionally-developed good relations with individual officers. The relationship that perceptual consciousness entertains with its object is that of "realising": we see the object of perception as real. The chapter is entertaining but, as the authors note, there is a lack of careful relevant epidemiological data looking at eating disorders in this country. Typical viewers watch soft news primarily, albeit not necessarily exclusively, to be entertained. Usually, husbands and wives worked together to ensure that a few select guests were present to ease the burden of entertaining. All members of the family needed to be entertained and able to relax. The style is easy, quite narrative, sometimes anecdotal, and entertaining. Doubting its truth would be tantamount to seriously entertaining the possibility that it might not exist. Women were instructed to acquaint themselves with the minutiae of entertaining and urged to add 'a personal touch to the dinner parties they hosted'. Among themselves, horticultural leaders entertained the grandest hopes. Unencumbered as he is by concerns about postmodernism or the arguments of other historians, he can spend his time entertaining his readers. The mixed-cone hypothesis could be entertained in two forms. Most dreams don't express wishes, most dreams don't involve entertaining things worth remembering, nor do they involve entertaining things worth forgetting. A day earlier, she had been convicted of conjuring evil spirits, entertaining diabolical imps, and casting harmful spells. When caring for a patient following an arterial switch procedure, the possibility of pulmonary vascular abnormalities should be entertained. Indeed, it may be not only accurate and interesting, but also, quite unintentionally, even entertaining. When these assumptions are applied to brain imaging of atypical development, they have strong implications for empirical enquiry and for the hypotheses being entertained. In our opinion, a risk-adapted procedure should be adopted: intracranial investigation should only be entertained should the patient have signs or symptoms of cerebral pathology. Positive moods were represented, such as 'it was jolly and fun', 'a nice happy tune', 'fun and entertaining'. The fact that so many of the exemplars are from the poorly documented 'middle period' allows various theories of the composer's peregrinations to be entertained. In the equilibrium approach, how can the notion of institutional change be entertained? At times the debate has proven useful, or at least entertaining. As elements in a conversation, they entertained, and in entertaining they exemplified a polite way of learning that could underpin a more stable society. Doubts about the reliability of the militia forces were equally entertained in the 1640s and in 1688. Of course, one may agree that procreation is morally problema tic without entertaining any notion of directly regulating it. They indicate that there was something about the multiparametric interface that was entertaining and engaging, perhaps because it allowed a certain amount of spatial thinking. When there's lots of movement on stage, you start to deal with entertaining the eye or perhaps reawakening the ear or something. Such forays can be both fruitful, in terms of the conclusions brought to light, and entertaining. A rare exception is right towards the end, where a debate on gender is not only introduced but tantalisingly briefly entertained. We may or may not agree with this and other assumptions entertained in the book. The art of entertaining at a party or on the street depends on adapting to an audience and keeping the performance going. The latter was a form of refined leisure, like singing and dancing; and the discussions were entertaining rather than intended to resolve serious disputes. The audience was entertained while simultaneously empowered to act as witnesses to what balloonists presented as a scientific experiment. Simultaneously, composers found that they were being held to task by high-minded critics for producing low (that is, entertaining) music. The redundancy rule entertained above offers no account of this phenomenon, because it does not fill in a value of [anterior] based on backness. On one level, shows were put on for the purpose of amusing children : thus, the children had to be entertained. There is nothing more involved than saying that the speaker entertains two grammars, maintains those analyses until they are resolved and that such efforts require computational space. The verb admire pro®les this mental relationship, whereas the derived noun admirer evokes it as its base but pro®les only the individual who entertains the attitude. Our hope is that the series will appeal to an intelligent general audience who will be stimulated by the ideas, intrigued by the accents and entertained by the pictures. The music alone occupies us, entertains us, and indeed so agreeably that we gladly dispense with those main points or [302] trivialities - or whatever you want to call them! Such trivia will not bother most readers, nor should it, for this is an excellent book; it is authoritative yet entertaining and a thoroughly good read. They should try to dispel the doubts entertained by women when conflicting reports about the effectiveness and complications of the loop are frequently circulated in the press and outside. The willingness to stifle debate and defer to "experts" in authority also shows disdain for entertaining alternative positions that could help generate knowledge that contributes to policy. The distinction, helpful in the book's title, in practice becomes blurred since the heavier numbers contain so much that is entertaining and the ostensibly lighter ones disproportionate wisdom. The writing is crisp, precise, and entertaining. Imagining that something is moving, and imagining that something is further away, could be nothing more than entertaining the thought that some particular things are moving or are further away. His polemic seems more laughable than entertaining. He is unable to discuss its intrinsic value or 'the value of poetry to the mind that entertains it'. The early structuralists analyse relations between larger elements of meaning than is entertained in structural linguistics. Long-firmers are experienced manipulators, and they make entertaining company for both prisoners and staff. Such mechanisms have not been sufficiently entertained in prior work and, as a result, cause and putative consequence have been all too often confounded. They are most likely playful though, as a group, and imaginative, and resourceful, and entertaining. 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. A somewhat dependent role is created for such travellers, being looked after and entertained, for example, by tour company hosts. The emperor entertained them and raised the issue of the marble. The question of marriage could not be entertained as she was a minor and her consent could only be for intercourse and not marriage. Our own observations suggest that the team also entertained some notion of compensation or positive discrimination which necessarily worked against the interests of some schools. However, there are a few occasions where a different view of phonological features is entertained. Such ideas have been entertained by various authors, using diverse specifications of game and associated concepts of equilibrium. If, then, such a possible alternative to the current wisdom may at least be entertained, its implications are worth pursuing. Having said this, the book is never less than entertaining and engaging as it flirts capriciously with one topic after another. 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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