| 单词 | to make sport |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto make sport Phrases P1. a. in sport: in jest, jokingly; for fun or diversion, not seriously or in earnest. Now somewhat archaic.In quot. 1785 used predicatively. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pleasure > laughter > causing laughter > lack of seriousness > [adverb] agamec1300 bourdfullya1400 in sportc1450 aplay1459 bourdly1500 in jest1551 bourdingly1552 sportingly1561 jestingly1569 sportingwise1579 sportfullya1586 sportively1656 for fun1750 flippantly1758 pour rire1872 c1450 [see sense 3b]. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Prov. xxvi. C I dyd it but in sporte. a1577 Ferrers in G. Gascoigne Princelie Pleasures Kenelworth sig. A.iij, in Whole Wks. (1587) And as my loue to Arthure dyd appeere, so shalt to you in earnest and in sport. a1616 W. Shakespeare As you like It (1623) i. ii. 26 Loue no man in good earnest, nor no further in sport neyther, then [etc.] . View more context for this quotation 1668 P. M. To Author of Ephesian Matron sig. H, in W. Charleton Ephesian & Cimmerian Matrons Having in sport thrown you into the river, and finding you unable to bear up against the impetuous torrent of Feminine prejudice,..I am resolved to leap in after. 1748 S. Richardson Clarissa VII. xc. 331 I should be sorry, if I could not say, that what you have warned me of in sport, makes me tremble in earnest. 1785 W. Cowper Task ii. 369 He doubtless is in sport, and does but droll. 1829 Chapters Physical Sci. 317 The inexhaustible variety of shades which nature, as in sport, has diffused over the surface of different bodies. 1879 F. W. Farrar Life & Work St. Paul I. v. xvi. 299 I have assumed that the name was given by Gentiles, and given more or less in sport. 1910 W. Boyle Mineral Workers iv. 99 You asked me if I knew anyone who hated Mr. O'Reilly hot enough to lend you money. I suggested her—in sport. 1951 R. Graves Poems & Satires (1997) 192 Let them not whisper, even in sport: ‘His Majesty's turned parsimonious And keeps no whore now but his Consort’. 1988 D. Smyth Guide Irish Mythol. 88 He said in sport, ‘Deirdre, the look of a ewe between two rams is that look thou givest me and Eogan.’ b. to make a sport of: to make a joke or mockery of. Now archaic. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > derision, ridicule, or mockery > banter or good-humoured ridicule > banter [verb (transitive)] > make fun of to have (also i-do) (something) to gameeOE to make (a) game of (also at, on)?c1250 overmirtha1400 sporta1533 to make a sport of1535 to make (up) a lip1546 to give one a (or the) gleek1567 to make a May game of1569 to play with a person's nose1579 to make merry over (also with)1621 game1699 to make fun of1732 hit1843 the mind > emotion > pleasure > laughter > causing laughter > cause laughter [verb (transitive)] > utter a jest or joke > make jest of or joke about to make a sport of1535 humorize1749 mess1946 to fuck with ——1968 to screw with ——1986 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Prov. x. C A foole doth wickedly & maketh but a sporte of it. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) 1 Esdras i. 51 Loke what God spake vnto them by his prophetes, they made but a sporte of it. 1600 W. Shakespeare Much Ado about Nothing ii. iii. 151 He would make but a sport of it, and torment the poore Lady worse. View more context for this quotation 1678 A. Behn Sir Patient Fancy iv. ii. 58 You have Sir, you wou'd say, made a sport and May-game of the ingagement of your word. 1704 C. Darby Bk. Psalms lix. 89 But thou, O Lord shalt laugh at them, And make of them a sport. 1791 H. B. Dudley Woodman iii. 67 I have met with no one except a savage train of hunters, and they made but a sport of my distress! 1830 Times 14 Aug. 2/1 I have never made a sport of my word, and with me the obligation of an oath has always been sacred. 1865 B. Gray Matrimonial Infelicities 200 He did not come to Allen-Dale to be made a sport of. 1915 ‘W. Bamfylde’ Midsummer Magic xvii. 195 Fate was making a sport of him. 1992 H. H. Rudnick in A.-T. Tymieniecka Elemental Dialectic of Light & Darkness v. 309 Deconstruction is making a sport of received values that function as markers of orientation at least for those students who are trying to understand the basic tenets of the human condition. P2. to make sport. a. To provide entertainment or diversion for a person. Chiefly with person as indirect object, or with for, †to. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > [verb (intransitive)] playeOE glewc900 gameOE lakec1300 solace1340 bourdc1440 dallyc1440 sporta1450 to make sportc1475 disport1480 to have a good (bad, etc.) time (of it, formerly on it)1509 toy?1521 pastime1523 recreate1589 jest1597 feast1609 deliciate1633 divert1670 carpe diem1817 hobby-horse1819 popjoy1853 that'll be the day1916 to play around1929 loon1969 society > leisure > entertainment > [verb (intransitive)] > provide amusement to make sportc1475 entertain1706 c1475 Mankind l. 268 Men haue lytyll deynte of yowr pley Because ȝe make no sporte. 1481 in H. E. Malden Cely Papers (1900) 74 Ȝe have a fayre hawke... I trwste to God sche schall make yow and me ryught grehyt sporte. 1592 Arden of Feversham iii. i. 85 He will murther me to make him sport. 1598 W. Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost iv. i. 98 This Armado is..one that makes sport To the Prince and his Booke-mates. View more context for this quotation 1600 Chester Plays (Harl. 2013) 2 Interminglinge therewith onely, to make sporte, Some thinge, not warranted by any writt. 1616 J. Lane Contin. Squire's Tale xi. 196 Hee that makes them sport shall have their hartes. 1663 A. Cowley Cutter of Coleman-St. ii. ii. 15 'Twill make us excellent sport at night. 1738 G. Lillo Marina i. ii Winds and waters, In their vast tennis-court, have, as a ball, Used me to make them sport. 1785 W. Cowper Task vi. 386 To make him sport..are causes good And just, in his account, why bird and beast Should suffer torture. 1867 J. T. Trowbridge Neighbours' Wives xxviii. 254 Prudence took the stand, and made sport for the Philistines. 1909 Mrs. H. Ward Daphne ii. 47 That little Yankee girl had really made good sport all the way home. 1974 I. Opie & P. Opie Classic Fairy Tales 48 It would seem safe to think that Shakespeare knew a tale of blood-sniffing giants, such as those who made sport for nimble Jack. b. To amuse or entertain oneself; to find diversion in; to be amused at or with; to make fun of, toy with. Chiefly with at, of, with. ΚΠ 1525 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles II. clx. f. clxxviiv/2 For all that they wolde not abstayne to daunce and to caroll and to make sporte [Fr. en dances en scarolles & en esbatemens] amonge the ladyes and damoselles of Auignon. 1565 J. Jewel Replie Hardinges Answeare x. 428 Nowe, if M. Hardinge, as his manner is, wil cal al these, Naked Signes, and Bare Figures, let him then remember, he maketh sporte, & game at S. Ambrose, his owne Doctour. a1616 W. Shakespeare Comedy of Errors (1623) ii. ii. 30 When the sunne shines, let foolish gnats make sport . View more context for this quotation a1616 W. Shakespeare Merry Wives of Windsor (1623) iii. iii. 144 If I suspect without cause, Why then make sport at me, then let me be your iest. View more context for this quotation 1667 S. Pepys Diary 28 June (1974) VIII. 299 How sad a thing it is when we come to make sport of proclaiming men traitors. 1699 T. Brown Let. 27 June in 4th Vol. Wks. (1711) 129 I..leave the Dr. and you to make what Sport you shall think fit with me. 1709 J. Strype Ann. Reformation I. xxxvii. 424 These men..sometimes he makes sport with..and sometimes declaimes and exclaimes upon them. 1761 A. Murphy Old Maid ii. 52 There is harm done—I am made sport of—exposed to derision—Oh! 1853 J. H. Newman Hist. Sketches (1873) II. i. i. 28 The energy of these wild warriors made sport of walled cities. 1888 Mrs. H. Ward Robert Elsmere I. i. ii. 46 Among this grim and earthy crew, there was one exception, a ‘hop out of kin’, of whom all the rest made sport. 1909 A. Meynell Ceres' Runaway 56 Making sport of the Philistines with a proper national sense of enjoyment of..such natural difficulties, or such misfavour of fortune, as may beset the alien. 1973 Times 18 Dec. 1/3 He made sport of Mr Healey's implications that there should have been some direct taxation. 1998 M. Booth Industry of Souls iv. 73 They had made sport with him, firing deliberately wide, or short. P3. to show sport: to provide a spectacle, entertainment or diversion; (now) esp. (of a master of foxhounds) to provide good hunting. Also: (esp. of a quarry) to provide good sport by demonstrating spirit and courage. Chiefly Hunting after 17th cent. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > [verb (intransitive)] > show spirit in attack or defence to show sport1579 the mind > emotion > courage > valour > warlike valour > fight bravely [verb] > exhibit spirit in war to show sport1579 1579 S. Gosson Ephemerides Phialo sig. ☞7v If idle Drones assayle me, let them know that I shewe no sporte for them, my desire is, to seeke out meate for manly stomackes. ?1587 R. Southwell Epist. Comfort x. f.124v It was an ordinarye pastime a monge the Romaines, for men to shew sporte in wrastelinge and striuing with Lions, and other wilde beastes, onlye for a vayne proofe, and bost of their valoure. 1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 25 His Asse (being on a scaffolde to shew sport). 1699 G. Farquhar Love & Bottle iii. 36 Sir, I scorn to shew sport to any man. 1790 ‘P. Pindar’ Complimentary Epist. J. Bruce 34 Thus the Bag Fox (how cruelly, alack!) Turn'd out with turpentine upon his back, Amidst the war of hounds and hunters flies; Shows sport; but, luckless, by his fragrance dies! 1834 E. Bulwer-Lytton Last Days of Pompeii III. v. ii. 207 Eumolpus is a good second-rate swordsman;..doubtless they will shew sport. But I have no heart for the game. 1843 R. S. Surtees Handley Cross II. viii. 153 You..must know what a difficult thing it is to shew sport with fox-hounds. 1846 G. P. R. James Heidelberg i This seems a wild boar of the forest. We must force him from his lair; and he will show sport, depend upon it. 1922 J. Eyton Dancing Fakir 52 The fox..could be relied on to show sport over any line of country; but he always baffled hounds in the finish. 1936 Times 28 Oct. 6/1 The five packs in the shires..are sure to find that his capacity for showing sport will divert a large proportion of the usual Leicestershire visitors to his corner of the county. 1985 Times 2 Nov. 29/6 The master of foxhounds..is appointed by an elected hunt committee to ‘show sport’. P4. Noun phrases with of. a. sport of nature: (in literal sense) a game played by nature, or a result of this; spec. a freak of nature; a natural curiosity, esp. a fossil; = lusus naturae n. Now chiefly historical. Cf. 6, sporting n. 3a. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > biological processes > genetic activity > [noun] > changes or actions of genes or chromosomes > mutation > mutant sport of nature1601 lusus naturaea1661 sportling1723 sport1834 bud-sport1900 mutant1901 break1921 mutation1941 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. viii. xii. 199 What reason should a man alledge of this so mortall warre betweene them, if it be not a very sport of Nature, and pleasure that she takes, in matching these two so great enemies together, and so euen and equall in each respect? [L. quam quis aliam tantae discordiae causam attulerit nisi naturam spectaculum sibi paria componentem?] 1635 G. Hakewill Apol. (rev. ed.) iii. ii. 230 Cockles, periwinkles and oysters of solid stone:..whither they have bin shellfish and living creatures, or else the sports of nature in her works. 1668 N. Culpeper & A. Cole tr. T. Bartholin Anat. (new ed.) i. xxvii. 64 Spigelius, because he could not somtimes find it, did count it a sport of Nature. 1759 A. Butler Lives Saints IV. 134 They seem either petrifactions or sports of nature in uncommon chrystallizations in a mineral soil. 1773 J. Langhorne Fables of Flora (ed. 5) ix. 9 Thus Nature with the fabled elves We rank, and these her Sports we call.] 1822 J. M. Good Study Med. IV. 249 It is in this organ more especially that rudimental attempts at fetal organization, the mere sports of nature, are frequently found produced without impregnation. 1862 R. W. Thomson Amateur's Rosarium xiii. 92 Another variety of the Moss [rose], which owes its origin to a sport of nature. 1889 Mind 14 427 The possibility of thus pronouncing, that ‘white-skinned descendants of black men’ are a mere sport of nature. 1902 Geogr. Jrnl. 20 448 The Sarasins, discrediting the idea that the form of these islands can be accidental or a mere sport of nature, suggest a mechanical explanation. 1944 Times 28 Apr. 6/4 Delius... Beecham himself regards him as an unaccountable sport of nature. 2000 Guardian 29 Apr. (Saturday section) 9/6 If heat and light could magic living flesh from nothing, then it could also act upon ‘lapidifying forces’ to conjure up stony little jests, sports of nature, testaments to God's mysterious ways. b. 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. P5. be a sport: (in optative use) act in a generous and sportsmanlike way. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > love > friendliness > social intercourse or companionship > be sociable [verb (intransitive)] > act in agreeable spirit be a sport1913 1913 Punch 21 May 405 I say, old chap, I've not had a smoke for half-an-hour, so I think I'll go on top. Be a sport and go inside with the women, will you? 1931 W. Faulkner Sanctuary vi. 57 ‘Come on,’ Temple said. ‘Be a sport. It wont take you any time in that Packard.’ 1945 E. Waugh Brideshead Revisited i. v. 104 Be a sport, handsome: no one's seen anything but you. 1996 R. Mistry Fine Balance (1997) i. 38 Wait, Hosa, wait, one more kabab, it's delicious, believe me, one more, come on, be a sport. < as lemmas |
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