英语词汇“a sport of wit”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

c. A piece of intellectual or literary playfulness; a jeu d'esprit; (also) a piece of writing characterized by this. With of and distinguishing word, as a sport of terms, a sport of wit, a sport of words, etc. Now rare.

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1569 J. Sanford tr. H. C. Agrippa Of Vanitie Artes & Sci. xlvii. f. 61 ^v Al this is nothinge els, but a certaine sporte of Allegories, the whiche idle men busied in letters, pointes, and numbers, which this tongue and manner of writtinge dothe easily suffer, accordinge to theire pleasure doo forge and reforge.

a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) ii. ii. sig. P My words being so passionate; and shooting so quite contrarie from the markes of Mopsaes worthinesse, she perceiued well enough, whither they were directed: and therefore being so masked, she was contented, as a sporte of witte to attend them.

1633 T. Heywood Eng. Traveller iv. i. sig. I4 What he did, Was but for his Young Master, I allow it Rather as sports of Wit, then iniuries.

1685 E. Stillingfleet Origines Britannicæ iv. 208 I cannot think Learned Men write these things any otherwise, than as Sports of Wit which are intended for the diversion..of the Reader.

1725 W. Broome in A. Pope et al. tr. Homer Odyssey II. ix. Observ. 329 An Author who should introduce such a sport of words upon the stage, even in the Comedy of our days, would meet with small applause.

1774 J. Bryant New Syst. II. 282 Clemens speaks of this Ogdoas, as the νοητος κοσμος: which is certainly a sport of terms.

1830 J. Mackintosh Life T. More in Wks. (1846) I. 423 Enabling the writer to call the whole a mere sport of wit.

1917 Amer. Church Monthly Dec. 256 That is, there inheres in the terms of the proposition itself something which is a negation of success; and to propose it at all is only a sport of words.

单词	a sport of wit
释义	> as lemmas a sport of wit c. A piece of intellectual or literary playfulness; a jeu d'esprit; (also) a piece of writing characterized by this. With of and distinguishing word, as a sport of terms, a sport of wit, a sport of words, etc. Now rare. ΚΠ 1569 J. Sanford tr. H. C. Agrippa Of Vanitie Artes & Sci. xlvii. f. 61 ^v Al this is nothinge els, but a certaine sporte of Allegories, the whiche idle men busied in letters, pointes, and numbers, which this tongue and manner of writtinge dothe easily suffer, accordinge to theire pleasure doo forge and reforge. a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) ii. ii. sig. P My words being so passionate; and shooting so quite contrarie from the markes of Mopsaes worthinesse, she perceiued well enough, whither they were directed: and therefore being so masked, she was contented, as a sporte of witte to attend them. 1633 T. Heywood Eng. Traveller iv. i. sig. I4 What he did, Was but for his Young Master, I allow it Rather as sports of Wit, then iniuries. 1685 E. Stillingfleet Origines Britannicæ iv. 208 I cannot think Learned Men write these things any otherwise, than as Sports of Wit which are intended for the diversion..of the Reader. 1725 W. Broome in A. Pope et al. tr. Homer Odyssey II. ix. Observ. 329 An Author who should introduce such a sport of words upon the stage, even in the Comedy of our days, would meet with small applause. 1774 J. Bryant New Syst. II. 282 Clemens speaks of this Ogdoas, as the νοητος κοσμος: which is certainly a sport of terms. 1830 J. Mackintosh Life T. More in Wks. (1846) I. 423 Enabling the writer to call the whole a mere sport of wit. 1917 Amer. Church Monthly Dec. 256 That is, there inheres in the terms of the proposition itself something which is a negation of success; and to propose it at all is only a sport of words. extracted from sportn.¹ < as lemmas
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