horseplay
英 ['h??sple?]
美['h?rs'ple]
- n. 動手腳和大聲歡笑的玩鬧；惡作劇
TEM8
助記提示
1. from horse (n.) with its associations of "strong, coarse" + play (n.).
中文詞源
horseplay 玩鬧，打鬧嬉戲
horse,馬，play,玩。可能來自兒童的騎馬游戲。比較hobby horse.
英文詞源
- horseplay (n.)
- "rough, excessive play," 1580s, from horse (n.) with its associations of "strong, coarse" + play (n.).
雙語例句
- 1. Horseplay is OK at work as long as are off the clock.
- 馬球是只要你的工作確定的關(guān)閉時鐘.
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- 2. After the horseplay by the wicked students, the classroom floor was strewn with crumbled chalk dust.
- 那班頑皮學(xué)生鬧著玩兒,捏碎不少粉筆,過后, 教室地板上撒滿了粉筆灰.
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