英语词汇“your starter for ten”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

P3. Chiefly British. your starter for ten: introducing an initial question employed as a means of opening a new topic for conversation or discussion. Hence starter for ten: an introductory question, (more broadly) an opportunity or opening. [With allusion to the British television quiz show University Challenge (first broadcast in 1962) in which the phrase is used as the formulaic introduction for a question worth ten points asked at the start of a particular round, in which a sequence of other questions are then offered to the team correctly answering the starter question. Compare quot. 1967 and also starter question n. (b) at Compounds 4.]

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1967 Observer 24 Sept. 23/3 (television listing) University Challenge: With Bamber Gascoigne, of Eton and Magdalene, Cambridge, supplying ‘Your Starter for Ten’.]

1969 Times 15 Nov. 13 (advt.) Here's your starter for ten. What would you do with £10 a month?

1997 Church Times 20 June 8/5 A new dawn offers a new opportunity as the new Government has given faith communities a relatively easy starter for ten in choosing religion as the topic for one of its first extensions of human-rights law.

2000 J. Goodwin Danny Boy ii. 45 When the fry-ups came we amused ourselves identifying bits of Teapot [a murder victim]. The bacon was an obvious starter for ten, and, as Dekka pointed out, it helped that nobody had ordered sausage.

2006 I. Macpherson Invisibility iv. 12 ‘Your starter for ten,’ he said... The name of this beautiful North Korean temptress, is it Sung Hi Lo. Or is it Sung Lo Hi?

单词	your starter for ten
释义	> as lemmas your starter for ten P3. Chiefly British. your starter for ten: introducing an initial question employed as a means of opening a new topic for conversation or discussion. Hence starter for ten: an introductory question, (more broadly) an opportunity or opening. [With allusion to the British television quiz show University Challenge (first broadcast in 1962) in which the phrase is used as the formulaic introduction for a question worth ten points asked at the start of a particular round, in which a sequence of other questions are then offered to the team correctly answering the starter question. Compare quot. 1967 and also starter question n. (b) at Compounds 4.] ΚΠ 1967 Observer 24 Sept. 23/3 (television listing) University Challenge: With Bamber Gascoigne, of Eton and Magdalene, Cambridge, supplying ‘Your Starter for Ten’.] 1969 Times 15 Nov. 13 (advt.) Here's your starter for ten. What would you do with £10 a month? 1997 Church Times 20 June 8/5 A new dawn offers a new opportunity as the new Government has given faith communities a relatively easy starter for ten in choosing religion as the topic for one of its first extensions of human-rights law. 2000 J. Goodwin Danny Boy ii. 45 When the fry-ups came we amused ourselves identifying bits of Teapot [a murder victim]. The bacon was an obvious starter for ten, and, as Dekka pointed out, it helped that nobody had ordered sausage. 2006 I. Macpherson Invisibility iv. 12 ‘Your starter for ten,’ he said... The name of this beautiful North Korean temptress, is it Sung Hi Lo. Or is it Sung Lo Hi? extracted from startern. < as lemmas
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