| 单词 | blood sport |
| 释义 | > as lemmasblood sport blood sport n. (usually in plural) a sport involving the hunting, wounding, or killing of animals; also figurative. 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 1893 Echo 6 Apr. 1/5 Some men are rich enough to buy vast tracts of country for no other purpose than their personal amusement—and such amusement! being nothing nobler or more rational than the ‘blood sports’ which The Echo is holding up to public contempt. 1895 Humanity Oct. 58 If a poll could be taken, we believe that blood sports would be condemned by a larger number of persons than could be mustered on any other humanitarian issue. 1966 D. Sutherland Against Wind ii. xii. 185 The lunatic fringe of the anti-blood-sport brigade who, in the same breath, condemn shooting and fishing with fox-hunting and stag-hunting as cruel sports. 1991 Hist. Today Oct. 46/2 The Soviet intellectual bloodsport of hunting down ‘bourgeois falsifiers’ has been abolished. 2002 Independent 26 Sept. 19/8 Bloodsports such as fox hunting are nowadays ‘field sports’ or even more absurdly ‘a way of life’. < as lemmas |
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