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

P3. to show sport: to provide a spectacle, entertainment or diversion; (now) esp. (of a master of foxhounds) to provide good hunting. Also: (esp. of a quarry) to provide good sport by demonstrating spirit and courage. Chiefly Hunting after 17th cent.

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society > leisure > sport > [verb (intransitive)] > show spirit in attack or defence

to show sport1579

the mind > emotion > courage > valour > warlike valour > fight bravely [verb] > exhibit spirit in war

to show sport1579

1579 S. Gosson Ephemerides Phialo sig. ☞7^v If idle Drones assayle me, let them know that I shewe no sporte for them, my desire is, to seeke out meate for manly stomackes.

?1587 R. Southwell Epist. Comfort x. f.124^v It was an ordinarye pastime a monge the Romaines, for men to shew sporte in wrastelinge and striuing with Lions, and other wilde beastes, onlye for a vayne proofe, and bost of their valoure.

1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 25 His Asse (being on a scaffolde to shew sport).

1699 G. Farquhar Love & Bottle iii. 36 Sir, I scorn to shew sport to any man.

1790 ‘P. Pindar’ Complimentary Epist. J. Bruce 34 Thus the Bag Fox (how cruelly, alack!) Turn'd out with turpentine upon his back, Amidst the war of hounds and hunters flies; Shows sport; but, luckless, by his fragrance dies!

1834 E. Bulwer-Lytton Last Days of Pompeii III. v. ii. 207 Eumolpus is a good second-rate swordsman;..doubtless they will shew sport. But I have no heart for the game.

1843 R. S. Surtees Handley Cross II. viii. 153 You..must know what a difficult thing it is to shew sport with fox-hounds.

1846 G. P. R. James Heidelberg i This seems a wild boar of the forest. We must force him from his lair; and he will show sport, depend upon it.

1922 J. Eyton Dancing Fakir 52 The fox..could be relied on to show sport over any line of country; but he always baffled hounds in the finish.

1936 Times 28 Oct. 6/1 The five packs in the shires..are sure to find that his capacity for showing sport will divert a large proportion of the usual Leicestershire visitors to his corner of the county.

1985 Times 2 Nov. 29/6 The master of foxhounds..is appointed by an elected hunt committee to ‘show sport’.

单词	to show sport
释义	> as lemmas to show sport P3. to show sport: to provide a spectacle, entertainment or diversion; (now) esp. (of a master of foxhounds) to provide good hunting. Also: (esp. of a quarry) to provide good sport by demonstrating spirit and courage. Chiefly Hunting after 17th cent. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > [verb (intransitive)] > show spirit in attack or defence to show sport1579 the mind > emotion > courage > valour > warlike valour > fight bravely [verb] > exhibit spirit in war to show sport1579 1579 S. Gosson Ephemerides Phialo sig. ☞7^v If idle Drones assayle me, let them know that I shewe no sporte for them, my desire is, to seeke out meate for manly stomackes. ?1587 R. Southwell Epist. Comfort x. f.124^v It was an ordinarye pastime a monge the Romaines, for men to shew sporte in wrastelinge and striuing with Lions, and other wilde beastes, onlye for a vayne proofe, and bost of their valoure. 1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 25 His Asse (being on a scaffolde to shew sport). 1699 G. Farquhar Love & Bottle iii. 36 Sir, I scorn to shew sport to any man. 1790 ‘P. Pindar’ Complimentary Epist. J. Bruce 34 Thus the Bag Fox (how cruelly, alack!) Turn'd out with turpentine upon his back, Amidst the war of hounds and hunters flies; Shows sport; but, luckless, by his fragrance dies! 1834 E. Bulwer-Lytton Last Days of Pompeii III. v. ii. 207 Eumolpus is a good second-rate swordsman;..doubtless they will shew sport. But I have no heart for the game. 1843 R. S. Surtees Handley Cross II. viii. 153 You..must know what a difficult thing it is to shew sport with fox-hounds. 1846 G. P. R. James Heidelberg i This seems a wild boar of the forest. We must force him from his lair; and he will show sport, depend upon it. 1922 J. Eyton Dancing Fakir 52 The fox..could be relied on to show sport over any line of country; but he always baffled hounds in the finish. 1936 Times 28 Oct. 6/1 The five packs in the shires..are sure to find that his capacity for showing sport will divert a large proportion of the usual Leicestershire visitors to his corner of the county. 1985 Times 2 Nov. 29/6 The master of foxhounds..is appointed by an elected hunt committee to ‘show sport’. extracted from sportn.¹ < as lemmas
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