Entertainment

(noun.) an activity that is diverting and that holds the attention.

布丽奇特编辑

• Selden, catching the glance, wondered what part Miss Bart had played in organizing the entertainment. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• This being evidently the central point of the entertainment, Aunt Chloe began now to bustle about earnestly in the supper department. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• It was good entertainment; but only half-enjoyed, since I was alone: you should have been there. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• Books with their wealth of entertainment and information would be sealed to a large part of mankind, if glasses did not assist weak eyes. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• But (lowering her voice)nobody speaks except ourselves, and it is rather too much to be talking nonsense for the entertainment of seven silent people. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
• I believe I and my family have also had the honour of furnishing some entertainment in the same grave place, said my guardian composedly. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• The management beg leave to offer to the public an entertainment surpassing in magnificence any thing that has heretofore been attempted on any stage. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• Gerald, who was spokesman, said that they would willingly take part in the entertainment. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• The man is by trade a conjurer and performer, going round the canteens after nightfall, and giving a little entertainment at each. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
• But I was restlessly curious to look at her--so curious that I felt it to be one of the few sources of entertainment left to me. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• Christians upon a journey were always sure of a warm welcome and hospitable entertainment from their fellow-disciples. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• The industry employs many thousands of people in the manufacture of these instruments and records which afford entertainment, instruction and amusement to the entire world. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• Some rousing choruses struck me as the best part of the evening's entertainment. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• And she brought him in the Morning Post, with the names of all the great people who had figured at Lord Steyne's entertainment the night before. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• But it is impossible to express the satisfaction I received in my own mind, after such a manner as to make it a suitable entertainment to the reader. 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
• Poor little Amelia never missed one of these entertainments and thought them delicious so long as she might have Georgy sitting by her. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• He considered that the freedom of entertainments takes away all distinction of office, and that dignity is but little consistent with familiarity. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• They were much given to festivals and shows, and, in particular, they were addicted to bull-fights and gymnastic entertainments. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• There was a ball after the dramatic entertainments, and everybody pressed round Becky as the great point of attraction of the evening. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• During these delectable entertainments, Miss Wirt and the chaperon sate by, and conned over the peerage, and talked about the nobility. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• Mrs. Crawley, who had her carriage, gave entertainments, and lived in a very genteel manner, occupied another suite of apartments in the same hotel. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• All parties and entertainments, of course, were to be put off. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.

杰拉尔德编辑