单词 | sporting page |
释义 | > as lemmassporting page c. A regular page or column in a newspaper or magazine set aside for a particular topic. Usually with a modifying word, as letters page, sporting page, etc.; cf. problem page n. at problem n. Compounds 1c. ΚΠ 1894 Harper's Mag. Nov. 832/1 Allowed to make extra money by writing for the sporting page.., he exhibited..talent as a tireless and ingenious newsgetter. 1896 K. Chopin in Atlantic Monthly Sept. 406/1 He..politely offered Athénaise a part of his newspaper,—the part which contained the Woman's Page and the social gossip. 1933 E. Waugh Scoop i. i. 15 Those carefree days when he had edited the Woman's Page. 1991 Women 22 114 There is also..a problem page and of course the readers' letters page. sporting page c. With the sense ‘providing journalistic coverage of sport’, as sporting column, sporting magazine, sporting newspaper, sporting page, sporting paper, etc. ΚΠ 1793 (title) The Sporting Magazine; or Monthly Calendar of the Transactions of the Turf. 1849 C. Brontë Shirley III. iv. 75 He reads only a sporting paper. 1860 C. Dickens Uncommerc. Traveller in All Year Round 26 May 155/2 If I cherished betting propensities, I should probably be found registered in sporting newspapers [etc.]. 1863 Baily's Monthly Mag. Apr. 153 An hour and a half had been ‘cut to waste’, as the sporting reporters would say, and no tidings..had been received. 1865 Pall Mall Gaz. 11 Sept. 10/1 The long list of ‘sharps’ who advertise their ‘tips’ in the sporting journals. 1901 Bookman Oct. 123/2 Americans..have noted the peculiarities of the diction of the writers of the sporting columns. 1907 M. E. Braddon Dead Love has Chains vi. 130 Slang has to be forgiven in a man, like smoking, and sporting papers, and motors. 1961 P. White Riders in Chariot ix. 259 He would..go away, or reach for the sporting page. 1980 P. Larkin in Times Lit. Suppl. 10 Oct. iv. 1127/1 Novel by novel we meet the jockeys, the trainers,..the bookmakers, the bloodstock agents, the sporting journalists. < as lemmas |
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