英语词汇“the sweet science”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

the sweet science: †(a) music, esp. regarded as technical skill which gives pleasure or enjoyment (cf. science n. 3a) (obsolete); (b) slang (also with capital initials) the sport of boxing, esp. regarded as a discipline requiring trained skill (cf. noble art n. at noble adj. and n.¹ Compounds 2, noble science n. 2b). [In sense Additions (b), apparently after the following use, later popularized by U.S. journalist A. J. Liebling (compare quot. 1956):

1824 P. Egan Boxiana IV. 53 Sweet Science of Bruising! how often has man, Twice as strong as his fellow, presumed just to lark it.

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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > fighting sports > boxing > [noun]

defence1549

pugilation1656

fencing1692

boxing1693

the (noble, also manly) art of self-defence1724

noble art1749

bruising1750

ring1770

noble science1778

pugilism1788

sparring1797

the sweet science1810

the fancy1820

pugilistics1820

pugnastics1830

fista1839

scrapping1891

ring-work1899

no contest1922

1810 Daughter II. xii. 171 Their musical parties were again renewed, as Lady Lionel was an enthusiast in the sweet science.

1874 Freeman's Jrnl. (Dublin) 20 Nov. 2/2 It does not follow because these and others cannot appreciate some features of the ‘sweet science’ in its later developments that they merit the sweeping imputation expressed by Lorenzo in the Merchant of Venice.

1895 G. M. Fenn Queen's Scarlet iii. 16 There were other signs about of the occupant's love of the sweet science; for there were a tuning-fork, a pitch-pipe, and a metronome on the chimney-piece.

1913 Times Lit. Supp. 20 Nov. 547/1 The ‘Sweet Science’... Mr. Lynch, a former captain of the Oxford University Boxing Club.., has written a treatise on the modern equivalent of ‘the sweet science of bruising’.

1913 Manitoba Free Press 27 Dec. (Literary section) 1/2 Being bullied by two strange boys, he tried to fight them—but without success, the two knowing too well some tricks of the ‘sweet science’.

1956 A. J. Liebling Sweet Sci. 11 When I came back from the war in 1945 I wasn't ready to write about the Sweet Science, although I continued to see fights.

2004 R. B. Parker Double Play (2005) iv. 30 There's fighting..and there's boxing. You could beat both these guys up in some alley someplace... But, you got no future in the sweet science.

单词	the sweet science
释义	> as lemmas the sweet science the sweet science: †(a) music, esp. regarded as technical skill which gives pleasure or enjoyment (cf. science n. 3a) (obsolete); (b) slang (also with capital initials) the sport of boxing, esp. regarded as a discipline requiring trained skill (cf. noble art n. at noble adj. and n.¹ Compounds 2, noble science n. 2b). [In sense Additions (b), apparently after the following use, later popularized by U.S. journalist A. J. Liebling (compare quot. 1956): 1824 P. Egan Boxiana IV. 53 Sweet Science of Bruising! how often has man, Twice as strong as his fellow, presumed just to lark it. ] ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > fighting sports > boxing > [noun] defence1549 pugilation1656 fencing1692 boxing1693 the (noble, also manly) art of self-defence1724 noble art1749 bruising1750 ring1770 noble science1778 pugilism1788 sparring1797 the sweet science1810 the fancy1820 pugilistics1820 pugnastics1830 fista1839 scrapping1891 ring-work1899 no contest1922 1810 Daughter II. xii. 171 Their musical parties were again renewed, as Lady Lionel was an enthusiast in the sweet science. 1874 Freeman's Jrnl. (Dublin) 20 Nov. 2/2 It does not follow because these and others cannot appreciate some features of the ‘sweet science’ in its later developments that they merit the sweeping imputation expressed by Lorenzo in the Merchant of Venice. 1895 G. M. Fenn Queen's Scarlet iii. 16 There were other signs about of the occupant's love of the sweet science; for there were a tuning-fork, a pitch-pipe, and a metronome on the chimney-piece. 1913 Times Lit. Supp. 20 Nov. 547/1 The ‘Sweet Science’... Mr. Lynch, a former captain of the Oxford University Boxing Club.., has written a treatise on the modern equivalent of ‘the sweet science of bruising’. 1913 Manitoba Free Press 27 Dec. (Literary section) 1/2 Being bullied by two strange boys, he tried to fight them—but without success, the two knowing too well some tricks of the ‘sweet science’. 1956 A. J. Liebling Sweet Sci. 11 When I came back from the war in 1945 I wasn't ready to write about the Sweet Science, although I continued to see fights. 2004 R. B. Parker Double Play (2005) iv. 30 There's fighting..and there's boxing. You could beat both these guys up in some alley someplace... But, you got no future in the sweet science. extracted from sweetadj.adv. < as lemmas
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