| 释义 |
sportingly, adv.|ˈspɔətɪŋlɪ|
[f. prec.]
1. As a matter of amusement or diversion; in or with jesting words or speech; not earnestly or seriously. ? Obs.
1576Fleming Panopl. Epist. 211 Pythagoras..first toucheth the condition and estate of him, whether seriously or sportingly, it is vncertaine. 1581Sidney Apol. Poetrie (Arb.) 44 The Satirick..Who sportingly neuer leaueth, vntil hee make a man laugh at folly. 1651H. More Second Lash in Enthus. Tri., etc. (1656) M j b, Thus Reader, is your argument against laughing as solidly argued as sportingly laughed out of countenance. 1674Bp. Brownrig Serm. II. 5 The mysteries of Religion are not slightly..or sportingly to be handled. 1768Sterne Sent. Journ., Passport, Versailles, Besides, continued I, a little sportingly—I have come laughing all the way from London to Paris. 1848S. Warren Now & Then iv. 173, I sportingly said ‘No, come with us’.
2. With sportive, playful, frolicsome, or lively action or demeanour.
c1630Risdon Surv. Devon §107 The river Ex sportingly disperseth itself into branches. a1639W. Whately Prototypes ii. xxvi. (1640) 22 Sports must be done sportingly, not with the like seriousnesse..as serious matters. 1776S. J. Pratt Pupil of Pleas. (1777) I. 46 Catching up a myrtle-sprig, [I] kept it, sportingly, as if to conceal a new sigh. c1789New Liverpool Songster 337 How echoes the horn in the vale, Whose notes do so sportingly dance on the gale.
b. Towards sport or enjoyment.
a1643Ld. Falkland, etc. Infallibility (1646) 156, I told you the applying of it to that place would have afforded some game if I had beene so sportingly disposed.
3. In or after the manner characteristic of sport; in sporting language or terms; like a sportsman.
1798Sporting Mag. XI. 57 Fertile fabrications so sportingly portrayed. 1831Blackw. Mag. XXIX. 872 He was beat by three good lengths... But to speak less sportingly [etc.]. 1844W. H. Maxwell Sports & Adv. Scot. iii. (1855) 38 No man rode more sportingly to hounds. Ibid. xx. 173 A salmon..took the fly sportingly. 1883Pall Mall G. 21 Dec. 4/2 Next to good sport, the honest English sportsman likes to dress sportingly. |