| 单词 | ring game |
| 释义 | > as lemmasring game ring game n. (a) a trick involving a ring; (b) a game played by people in a ring, a game involving a ring dance. ΚΠ 1850 J. Ashburner tr. K. L. F. Reichenbach Physico-physiol. Res. Dynamics of Magn. 130 If I laid my right hand in her left, and, at the same time, my left in her right, as is usual when one extends both hands at once to a friend, she said it seemed to her to run as in the ‘ring-game’. 1886 Lippincott's Monthly Mag. Mar. 239 The ring-games, or ‘carols’, are great favorites, as they were among the English court ladies. 1916 A. S. Neill Dominie Dismissed vii. 98 The ring games down at the school there nearly all deal with love and matrimony. 1972 Times 7 Aug. (Jamaica Suppl.) p. ii/4 She has recorded Kumina music, ring games and Pocomania meetings. 1998 C. Channer Waiting in Vain (1999) xix. 344 Behind her, beneath the thatch-roofed pavilions, the guests were skanking to old rock-steady choons and slamming dominoes on plastic tables and telling duppy stories and teaching the children old ring games. < as lemmas |
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