sport的意思|sport的解释-里氏词典

Sport \Sport\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Sported}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Sporting}.]
1. To play; to frolic; to wanton.

[Fish], sporting with quick glance,
Show to the sun their waved coats dropt with gold.
--Milton.

2. To practice the diversions of the field or the turf; to be
given to betting, as upon races.

3. To trifle. ``He sports with his own life.'' --Tillotson.

4. (Bot. & Zo["o]l.) To assume suddenly a new and different
character from the rest of the plant or from the type of
the species; -- said of a bud, shoot, plant, or animal.
See {Sport}, n., 6. --Darwin.

Syn: To play; frolic; game; wanton.

Sport \Sport\ (sp[=o]rt), n. [Abbreviated from disport.]
1. That which diverts, and makes mirth; pastime; amusement.

It is as sport to a fool to do mischief. --Prov. x.
23.

Her sports were such as carried riches of knowledge
upon the stream of delight. --Sir P.
Sidney.

Think it but a minute spent in sport. --Shak.

2. Mock; mockery; contemptuous mirth; derision.

Then make sport at me; then let me be your jest.
--Shak.

3. That with which one plays, or which is driven about in
play; a toy; a plaything; an object of mockery.

Flitting leaves, the sport of every wind. --Dryden.

Never does man appear to greater disadvantage than
when he is the sport of his own ungoverned passions.
--John Clarke.

4. Play; idle jingle.

An author who should introduce such a sport of words
upon our stage would meet with small applause.
--Broome.

5. Diversion of the field, as fowling, hunting, fishing,
racing, games, and the like, esp. when money is staked.

6. (Bot. & Zo["o]l.) A plant or an animal, or part of a plant
or animal, which has some peculiarity not usually seen in
the species; an abnormal variety or growth. See {Sporting
plant}, under {Sporting}.

7. A sportsman; a gambler. [Slang]

{In sport}, in jest; for play or diversion. ``So is the man
that deceiveth his neighbor, and saith, Am not I in
sport?'' --Prov. xxvi. 19.

Syn: Play; game; diversion; frolic; mirth; mock; mockery;
jeer.

Sport \Sport\, v. t.
1. To divert; to amuse; to make merry; -- used with the
reciprocal pronoun.

Against whom do ye sport yourselves? --Isa. lvii.
4.

2. To represent by any kind of play.

Now sporting on thy lyre the loves of youth.
--Dryden.

3. To exhibit, or bring out, in public; to use or wear; as,
to sport a new equipage. [Colloq.] --Grose.

4. To give utterance to in a sportive manner; to throw out in
an easy and copious manner; -- with off; as, to sport off
epigrams. [R.] --Addison.

{To sport one's oak}. See under {Oak}, n.

"There is now an immense hole in amateur surfing on the West Coast because he was really the crankshaft of organized surfing on the West Coast," said Surfer magazine publisher Steve Pezman. "The sport will miss him.
One solution seen by many sponsors such as Valvoline is to spend more money at small local tracks where racing is still valued more for sport than for big business.
"If we're ever going to advance the sport, we've got to stop acting like criminals," he says.
In 1939, Robert M. Hutchins, president of the University of Chicago, decreed that football was incompatible with the serious pursuit of higher education, and the U of C dropped the sport.
And to hunt down those bears that nevertheless remain destructive, the authorities are increasingly giving special permits to sport hunters, leaving less work for professional hunters like Mr. Paque.
The test car, an upscale XR2 turbo, seemed at ease in many sport maneuvers as well as on leisurely Sunday drives.
Cross-country, or nordic, skiing was then in its infancy in the U.S., and the Brautigams saw in the Camels Hump foothills a natural setting for the sport.
It is present at these Olympics as a demonstration sport, whose medals don't figure in any official reckonings.
None of the above should be construed as derogatory toward lugers, the sport's human component.
In one of the more intriguing glasnostic sidelights, Mr. Marciulionis became the first Soviet athlete ever permitted by Soviet authorities to play for an American professional team in a genuine, born-in-the-USA sport.
Better athlete conditioning and equipment have helped rewrite the records in just about every other sport, but golf's scores haven't changed much from bygone eras.
In a sport noted for its competitiveness, Metzger's moxie is legendary: As a teen he underwent knee surgery two weeks before a junior-national meet, ran three miles a day on his crutches, and then took off his cast to win.
The best recreational sport for strengthening the back, in his opinion, is swimming.
Last year in particular saw considerable strengthening of ties through sport between Seoul and socialist countries, highlighted by the large delegation China sent to September's Asian Games.
Some who have attended half-a-dozen Games have run out of enthusiasm. It is not because they have lost their love of sport.
The key to her improvement, says U.S. Olympic coach Mike Crowe, was that her strength and experience finally caught up with her technique, which had been the best in the sport for several years.
The only reason to grow a big hog today, says Mrs. Perry, is for sport.
He says he is in Bradford rather than Brisbane because of his restricted contract. In the long term, reform has to start with school sport.
Increasingly cost conscious, they will no longer hook up with an Olympian just because the company president likes the athlete's sport.
Still, Mitsubishi and Toyota stopped most shipments of their sport utility "trucks."
Illinois officials wanting to conduct warrantless searches of racetrack employees' on-grounds living quarters as one way of protecting the sport's integrity lost a Supreme Court appeal today.
"Football is supposed to be a mean sport," he said. "That's what the game of football is all about.
Mr. Lucas is also hoping to promote juggling and running as a new popular sport, called "joggling."
An avid wrestler, he had to give up the sport because his new school didn't have a wrestling program.
"Don't kill this bill by making it perfect," Bennett urged. "I'm afraid it's going to be a better corpse." Shumway, pointing to vocal opposition from sport diving groups, said the legislation should spell out guarantees for divers.
"It's going to seriously hurt our economy as far as tourism, sport and commercial fishing industry goes," said resident Jack Lee, one of the project's most outspoken critics.
It's a perfect example, an important masterpiece." The art deco district's buildings are painted pastel colors and sport geometric designs, its sidewalks are painted pink and it's often featured on NBC's "Miami Vice" television show.
'This season we have proved that we can control the technology, for the good of the sport.' Regulating a game like soccer - 22 lads and a ball - cannot be anything like as difficult as regulating Grand Prix.
Given that Granada is in such a strong position, it was thus a touch disappointing that in the pursuit of good sport the predator found it necessary to cast innuendo on LWT's profits forecast.
The issue will be decided later by the Women's International Professional Tennis Council, in which players have three votes, with the remaining six belonging to the International Tennis Federation, the sport's governing body, and tournament directors.

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