| 单词 | twenty questions |
| 释义 | > as lemmastwenty questions twenty questions n. a parlour game in which one party is allowed twenty questions (answered by either ‘yes’ or ‘no’) to discover the object of the other's thoughts; spec. the name of a popular radio panel game. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > parlour and party games > [noun] > guessing game > specific what's my thought like?1748 twenty questions1786 charade1826 how, when, and where1843 proverbs1855 hy-spy1876 game1937 I spy (with my little eye)1946 1786 H. More Lett. (1925) 107 Mrs Fielding and I..diverted ourselves with teaching Sir Joshua and Lord Palmerston the play of twenty questions. 1846 R. Bell Life G. Canning x. 255 Canning proposed that they should play at ‘Twenty Questions’. They had never heard of this game. 1930 ‘I. Hay’ & P. G. Wodehouse Baa, Baa, Black Sheep i. ii. 21 All right, a vicarage garden. What are we playing at? Twenty Questions, or something? 1979 E. H. Gombrich Sense of Order iv. 104 This can be done by a simple series of yes or no answers which allows a questioner to locate an item on a given grid as in the game of Twenty Questions. < as lemmas |
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