| 单词 | entertain |
| 释义 | entertain (once / 81 pages) 1v 2v If you want to entertain, you've got to hold people's attention, usually with something amusing. Clowns, music, silly jokes, and a good game of charades can all be used to entertain. Did you know you can actually entertain ideas? It's not quite the same as entertaining friends with a good home cooked meal or tickets to the ball game, but still an appropriate way to use the word. Entertaining an idea means to have it mind or under consideration. For example, you never thought of studying abroad, but after a professor said it was one of the most meaningful experiences of his life, you started to entertain the idea of living in a foreign country. WORD FAMILYentertain: entertained, entertainer, entertaining, entertainment, entertains+/entertainer: entertainers/entertaining: entertainingly/entertainment: entertainments USAGE EXAMPLESThere's a fine line between "entertaining" and "troublemaker". BBC(Jan 02, 2017) Ms. Peelle entertains in the novel in a folksy way that might lapse more frequently into hokey in a less confident writer’s hands. New York Times(Jan 01, 2017) It is described on its publisher's website as "an honest, uncensored and highly entertaining diary of the campaign that changed the course of history". Reuters(Jan 01, 2017) 1 v provide entertainment for 2Hypo|Hyper host be the host of or for amuse, disport, divertoccupy in an agreeable, entertaining or pleasant fashion banquet, feast, junketprovide a feast or banquet for wine and dineprovide with food and drink, usually lavishly compere, emceeact as a master of ceremonies do the honorsact as the host and receive or introduce one's guests socialise, socialize take part in social activities; interact with others 1v take into consideration, have in view He entertained the notion of moving to South America Syn|Hyper flirt with, think about, think of, toy with contemplate consider as a possibility 2v maintain (a theory, thoughts, or feelings) entertain interesting notions Syn|Hyper harbor, harbour, hold, nurse experience, feel undergo an emotional sensation or be in a particular state of mind |
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