| 单词 | sport of kings |
| 释义 | > as lemmassport of kings sport of kings n. (with the) (a) hunting; (b) warfare; (c) horse racing (now the usual sense); (d) surfing. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > [noun] huntethc900 huntingc1000 sleatinga1122 purchasec1325 veneryc1330 venation1386 venison1390 the chase?a1400 chasing?a1400 waithc1400 huntc1405 vanchasea1425 enchase1486 vaunt-chase1575 field sport1580 shikara1613 huntsmanshipa1631 cynegetics1646 sport of kings1735 game hunting1823 blood sport1893 society > armed hostility > war > [noun] MarsOE war1154 warc1374 irona1387 guerre?a1475 Mart?a1475 (the) feat of warc1503 militia1641 sport of kings1735 emergency1958 society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > racing or race > horse racing > [noun] runningeOE horse-running1504 swift horse running?a1513 horse racingc1654 horse-coursing1764 jockeyinga1770 sport of kings1918 society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > water sports except racing > surfing > [noun] surf swimming1829 surf-riding1854 surfing1896 surfboarding1903 surf1917 sport of kings1935 kitesurfing1995 a1668 W. Davenant Wks. (1673) i. 322 For I must go where lazy Peace, Will hide her drouzy head; And, for the sport of Kings, encrease The number of the Dead. 1702 E. Ward Bribery & Simony 11 War is the Sport of Kings and mighty Lords.] 1735 W. Somervile Chace i. 14 My hoarse-sounding Horn Invites thee to the Chace, the Sport of Kings, Image of War, without its Guilt. 1744 Review 12 Ths War to Britain sure Destruction brings, War Bane of Subjects, and the Sport of Kings. 1843 R. S. Surtees Handley Cross I. xiii. 253 'Unting is the sport of kings, the image of war without its guilt, and only five-and-twenty per cent. of its danger! 1859 H. H. Dixon Silk & Scarlet 85 The names of ‘Bolton’, ‘Queensberry’, and ‘Rockingham’ had, it is true, lent lustre to ‘the sport of kings’. 1886 Times 27 Mar. 4/1 The decay of hunting would be little short of a national calamity. The sport of kings exercises a healthy influence upon the national character, because it affords an opportunity of keen enjoyment to both gentle and simple. 1918 G. Frankau One of Them in Poet. Wks. (1923) II. xxi. 130 Weep for the King of Sports, the Sport of Kings;..On thousand tracks, unridden, desolate, Hay waves from winning-post to starting-gate. 1935 T. Blake Hawaiian Surfboard iii. 66 News reels and still cameramen will be on hand to shoot the thrilling rides that always accompany big surf, so the rest of the world may see the ‘sport of kings’ by picture. 1961 L. Mumford City in Hist. ii. 44 With concentration on war as the supreme ‘sport of kings’, an ever larger portion of the city's new resources..went into the manufacture of new weapons. 1968 W. Warwick Surfriding in N.Z. 1 Surfriding was practised almost exclusively by members of Hawaiian royal families: hence surfriding's now anachronistic title, ‘Sport of Kings’. 1998 T. Clancy Rainbow Six xxxii. 592 That was the real sport of kings, training a hawk to hunt off your fist for you. I might do some of that myself in a few years. 2007 Racing Rev. 124 Such is the popularity of the sport of Kings in Scotland, that..the Scottish racing industry as a whole contributes £213 million to the economy. < as lemmas |
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