Amusing的意思|Amusing的解释-里氏词典

amusing [ə'mjuzɪŋ]

a. 有趣的, 引人发笑的

I had an amusing experience last year. After I had left a small village in the south of France.
去年，我曾有过一段有趣的经历。在我离开法国南部的一个小村庄以后。
She keep a store of amusing story in her head.
她头脑里有许多有趣的故事。
An animated, amusing person who is the center of attention at a social gathering.
聚会的灵魂人物在社交场合是人们注意的焦点的活跃的、有趣的人

amusing

[ adj ]

providing enjoyment; pleasantly entertaining

<adj.all>

an amusing speaker

a diverting story

arousing or provoking laughter

<adj.all>

an amusing film with a steady stream of pranks and pratfalls

an amusing fellow

a comic hat

a comical look of surprise

funny stories that made everybody laugh

a very funny writer

it would have been laughable if it hadn't hurt so much

a mirthful experience

risible courtroom antics

Amusing \A*mus"ing\, a.
Giving amusement; diverting; as, an amusing story. --
{A*mus"ing*ly}, adv.

Amuse \A*muse"\ ([.a]*m[=u]z"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Amused}
([.a]*m[=u]zd"); p. pr. & vb. n. {Amusing}.] [F. amuser to
make stay, to detain, to amuse, [`a] (L. ad) + OF. muser. See
{Muse}, v.]
1. To occupy or engage the attention of; to lose in deep
thought; to absorb; also, to distract; to bewilder. [Obs.]

Camillus set upon the Gauls when they were amused in
receiving their gold. --Holland.

Being amused with grief, fear, and fright, he could
not find the house. --Fuller.

2. To entertain or occupy in a pleasant manner; to stir with
pleasing or mirthful emotions; to divert.

A group of children amusing themselves with pushing
stones from the top [of the cliff], and watching as
they plunged into the lake. --Gilpin.

3. To keep in expectation; to beguile; to delude.

He amused his followers with idle promises.
--Johnson.

Syn: To entertain; gratify; please; divert; beguile; deceive;
occupy.

Usage: To {Amuse}, {Divert}, {Entertain}. We are amused by
that which occupies us lightly and pleasantly. We are
entertained by that which brings our minds into
agreeable contact with others, as conversation, or a
book. We are diverted by that which turns off our
thoughts to something of livelier interest, especially
of a sportive nature, as a humorous story, or a
laughable incident.

Whatever amuses serves to kill time, to lull the
faculties, and to banish reflection. Whatever
entertains usually awakens the understanding or
gratifies the fancy. Whatever diverts is lively
in its nature, and sometimes tumultuous in its
effects. --Crabb.

They took turns reading from the chapter, in which Emma asks picnic participants to say either one brilliant thing, two moderately amusing things, or three dull things.
It is amusing to learn that he believed a train should always be given "a sporting chance" of getting away, but then we do not have to count on catching the train with him.
"The thought that tourists would find it amusing to see animals killed is a pretty sick one," said Katharine Thalberg, director of the Aspen Society for Animal Rights.
The chapters mingle brief biographical sketches, statistical summaries, selective quotation, and absorbing, occasionally amusing and sometimes provoking vignettes of business and technical genius at work.
Truly, here is a Miss Marple (Joan Hickson) who surpasses the amusing (but-untrue-to-the-Agatha-Christie- original) Margaret Rutherford.
Certainly Croatian local patriotism, an amusing phenomenon to inhabitants of more settled nations, seems real enough in Zagreb: Nearly half a million people celebrated when the city resurrected the bronze statue of a 19th-century Croatian hero.
The second ballet of the evening was Jerome Robbins' wonderful, amusing "Fancy Free" to music by Leonard Bernstein from 1944.
For the rich, anyway, fashion is an amusement, and the more drastically it changes the more amusing it is.
The Essential History Of Europe began last week with an amusing attempt by Dario Fo to say what it means to be an Italian.
He and nine other staff writers are responsible for "generating amusing things _ the ongoing task that awaits weekly."
Only for fervent fans of big-muscled men or amusing orangutans.
In her role of princess, Ms. Hawn is actually quite amusing as she parades around in a series of revealing bathing suits.
"I find it amusing, but I don't find it especially informative."
She told amusing stories about the oddities of American life that maybe meant something more than their literal content, or maybe didn't.
Spanish-born Paco Rabanne won the Golden Thimble Award for his amusing, lively collection that made full use of "new" materials like fringed raffia, crystal-globe embroideries and sequined leather.
All of the above would be amusing if it were not tragic.
Men who normally have no trouble choosing a good suit, the right shirt and an amusing tie often seem to lose all discrimination when buying shoes.
Though Mr. Pacino, too, has been disguised with a hooked nose and body padding and garish clothing, Big Boy isn't just another amusing costume.
In very large gardens, they can still be an amusing enclosure, but otherwise they limit choice.
It is the most pleasantly amusing show in London. You can also rise to farce.
Ethnic campaigning in New York has a long and amusing history.
The adult aspects of the story tend to get short shrift, although it was an amusing idea to have Sarastro's throne growing out of the tree of knowledge.
The nasty, manipulative hack and hanger-on becomes more than an amusing contemptible devil; minor characters suddenly become major; depths of feeling and of more than social peril loom.
Finally, the comments of John Campbell are amusing.
She said she found the media speculation amusing.
The comedian Lenny Henry does some amusing impersonations as he carries out this mild farce.
Three failed marriages helped country music songwriter Sanger D. "Whitey" Shafer to compose the memorable "All My Ex's Live in Texas." In fact, he wrote the amusing ditty _ recorded by George Strait _ with his fourth wife's assistance.
There's also an amusing scene in which Adm.
They provide an amusing way of getting to know the family Farr and its patriarch Henry, the fat middle-aged solicitor who tried to poison his wife in Williams's The Wimbledon Poisoner. The underlying humour of is pointed up by the jokes.
New vaudevillian Bill Irwin's "As Seen on TV" offers only amusing moments instead of the sustained genius of his stage show, "The Regard of Flight."

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