n. 行使, 执行, 运动, 练习, 作业

vt. 运用, 练习, 运动

vi. 练习, 锻炼

[医] 操练, 运动

[经] 行使, 执行(权力等)

Exercise \Ex"er*cise\, n. [F. exercice, L. exercitium, from
exercere, exercitum, to drive on, keep, busy, prob. orig., to
thrust or drive out of the inclosure; ex out + arcere to shut
up, inclose. See {Ark}.]
1. The act of exercising; a setting in action or practicing;
employment in the proper mode of activity; exertion;
application; use; habitual activity; occupation, in
general; practice.

exercise of the important function confided by the
constitution to the legislature. --Jefferson.

O we will walk this world,
Yoked in all exercise of noble end. --Tennyson.

2. Exertion for the sake of training or improvement whether
physical, intellectual, or moral; practice to acquire
skill, knowledge, virtue, perfectness, grace, etc.
``Desire of knightly exercise.'' --Spenser.

An exercise of the eyes and memory. --Locke.

3. Bodily exertion for the sake of keeping the organs and
functions in a healthy state; hygienic activity; as, to
take exercise on horseback; to exercise on a treadmill or
in a gym.
[1913 Webster +PJC]

The wise for cure on exercise depend. --Dryden.

4. The performance of an office, a ceremony, or a religious
duty.

Lewis refused even those of the church of England .
. . the public exercise of their religion.
--Addison.

To draw him from his holy exercise. --Shak.

5. That which is done for the sake of exercising, practicing,
training, or promoting skill, health, mental, improvement,
moral discipline, etc.; that which is assigned or
prescribed for such ends; hence, a disquisition; a lesson;
a task; as, military or naval exercises; musical
exercises; an exercise in composition; arithmetic
exercises.

The clumsy exercises of the European tourney.
--Prescott.

He seems to have taken a degree, and performed
public exercises in Cambridge, in 1565. --Brydges.

6. That which gives practice; a trial; a test.

Patience is more oft the exercise
Of saints, the trial of their fortitude. --Milton.

{Exercise bone} (Med.), a deposit of bony matter in the soft
tissues, produced by pressure or exertion.


Exercise \Ex"er*cise\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Exercised}; p. pr. &
vb. n. {Exercising}.]
1. To set in action; to cause to act, move, or make exertion;
to give employment to; to put in action habitually or
constantly; to school or train; to exert repeatedly; to
busy.

Herein do I Exercise myself, to have always a
conscience void of offence. --Acts xxiv.
16.

2. To exert for the sake of training or improvement; to
practice in order to develop; hence, also, to improve by
practice; to discipline, and to use or to for the purpose
of training; as, to exercise arms; to exercise one's self
in music; to exercise troops.

About him exercised heroic games
The unarmed youth. --Milton.

3. To occupy the attention and effort of; to task; to tax,
especially in a painful or vexatious manner; harass; to
vex; to worry or make anxious; to affect; to discipline;
as, exercised with pain.

Where pain of unextinguishable fire
Must exercise us without hope of end. --Milton.

4. To put in practice; to carry out in action; to perform the
duties of; to use; to employ; to practice; as, to exercise
authority; to exercise an office.

I am the Lord which exercise loving-kindness,
judgment, and righteousness in the earth. --Jer. ix.
24.

The people of the land have used oppression and
exercised robbery. --Ezek. xxii.
29.


Exercise \Ex"er*cise\, v. i.
To exercise one's self, as under military training; to drill;
to take exercise; to use action or exertion; to practice
gymnastics; as, to exercise for health or amusement.

I wear my trusty sword,
When I do exercise. --Cowper.