Amuse

(verb.) make (somebody) laugh; 'The clown amused the children'.

(verb.) occupy in an agreeable, entertaining or pleasant fashion; 'The play amused the ladies'.

编辑:卡罗尔

• From the window of Worcester's barrack-room I used to amuse myself reviewing our troops, but not after the fashion of Catharine of Russia. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• Laurie obediently threw himself down on the turf, and began to amuse himself by sticking daisies into the ribbons of Amy's hat, that lay there. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• Read, or do something to amuse you. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• And now I must tell you a little story that will please, and perhaps amuse you. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
• Stir away, it won't hurt me and it may amuse you, as the big man said when his little wife beat him. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• We obeyed, as in duty bound; Adele wanted to take a seat on my knee, but she was ordered to amuse herself with Pilot. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• The Parrys and Sandersons luckily are coming tonight you know, and that will amuse her. 简·奥斯汀. 理智与情感.
• He had left his sleeping wife; and wanted, as Margaret saw, to be amused and interested by something that she was to tell him. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
• Edison has always had an amused admiration for Bergmann, and his social side is often made evident by his love of telling stories about those days of struggle. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• Neither Laura nor I were in any favorable disposition to be amused. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• The papers were then brought home again, and the boys amused themselves to their hearts' content until the line was pulled down by a stray cow wandering through the orchard. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• For what did I say to myself arter having amused myself with that there stretch of a comic idea, as a sort of a playful game? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• This Atticus had an immense fortune, and he amused himself by huge architectural benefactions to various cities. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• At all hours of the day and night the sailors in the forecastle amused themselves and aggravated us by burlesquing our visit to royalty. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• I don't tell amusing stories, he said curtly, and walked across to the piano. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
• It was very funny, full of amusing and absurd situations; but Gould never smiled once. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• Don't be like Patience on a mantelpiece frowning at Dolls, but sit down, and I'll tell you something that you really will find amusing. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• It was almost as amusing to the Victorian English as the story of Balaam's ass. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• I approved, for my part, the amusing one's self with poetry now and then, so far as to improve one's language, but no farther. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• And there will be amusing things to do. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• I should hope you gentlemen of the army may find many means of amusing yourselves if you give your minds to it. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• I do frequently; when the gestures or looks of a pair seem telling a tale: it amuses me to watch them. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• It amuses me, so let her alone. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• So each consul's family stays at home chiefly and amuses itself as best it can. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• My hair amuses thee now because it is odd. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• Well, who is; but who has good music, and amuses people on Sunday evenings, when the whole of New York is dying of inanition. 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
• But if it amuses her I let it a be, but I'm none going to have more stuff poured into her. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
• Your inexperience really amuses me! 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.

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