| 单词 | to play see-saw |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto play (at) see-saw a. The motion of going up one moment and down the next, or of swaying backwards and forwards. to play (at) see-saw: a sport or child's amusement in which children sit one or more at each end of a board or piece of timber balanced so that the ends move alternately up and down.A wholly different game, a form of cat's-cradle n., is known in some parts of England as see-saw, with reference to the backward and forward movements of the hands. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in specific manner > alternating or reciprocating motion > oscillation > [noun] > see-sawing see-saw1704 see-sawing1793 teeter1855 society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > children's game > other children's games > [verb (intransitive)] > play see-saw totter1530 to play (at) see-saw1821 see-saw1860 1704 J. Swift Disc. Mech. Operat. Spirit i, in Tale of Tub 297 Then, as they sit, they are in a perpetual Motion of See-saw. 1712 J. Swift Let. to Mrs. Hill July One who knows your constitution very well, advises you by all means against sitting in the dusk at your window, or on the ground, leaning on your hand, or at see-saw in your chair. 1792 F. Burney Jrnls. & Lett. (1972) I. 123 I thought, by his see-saw, he was going to interrupt the speech. 1806 H. K. White Let. 18 Aug. in Remains (1807) I. 246 The delicious see-saw of a post-chaise. 1821 J. Clare Village Minstrel II. 77 Play at see-saw on the pasture-gate. 1877 R. D. Blackmore Erema III. liv. 237 The butt-ends of the three old streets..were dipped as if playing see-saw in the surf. < as lemmas |
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