英:[ˈpleɪθɪŋ]
美:[ˈpleˌθɪŋ]
英:[ˈpleɪθɪŋ]
美:[ˈpleˌθɪŋ]
play·thing
pleI thIng
复数:playthings
词根:playhouse
n.playhouse 剧场;玩具房屋;儿童游戏室
noun
something that is played with or regarded or treated as a toy.
a person who is treated as a toy.
"玩具,任何用于娱乐的东西",来自 play(动词)+ thing。
The first known use of plaything was circa 1674
playthingnoun
toy entry 1 sense 2
1 Van Zandt reported to the British Secret Service that Deane “strutted about” and acted like “a Child with a new plaything.”
2 Life's play is swift, Life's playthings fall behind one by one and are forgotten.
生命的游戏一下子就结束, 生命的玩具一件件遗落在后面,然后都被忘记掉.
3 People magazine practically described her as a feminist icon, far from the “passive, demure” plaything she had once supposedly been.
4 But somewhere between the top of the hill and the trees below, mother fox lost her plaything.
但是在山顶和山下的树林之间,狐狸妈妈丢掉了她的玩具。
5 Among our favourite playthings were pop-guns..and pistols.
6 Throughout, the superbly eloquent eyebrows of Claire Keelan as Em function as Greek chorus, telling us the quartet are fate's playthings.
7 Toronto’s scene started rolling when the French-born Ben Castanie, who was inspired in part by the Parisian toy libraries that lent playthings to families when he was a boy, opened Snakes & Lattes Annex in 2010.
8 Love, fury and agony have become playthings and status symbols — Botox for the heart.
9 With that in mind, furniture designer Thomas Hayes has created a stylish riff on the timeless outdoor plaything for the New York showroom Alt for Living.
10 But they were used for ornamentation rather than as playthings.
但玩具屋只作装饰用,而不是玩具.
11 Her family trotted them out as Christmas heirlooms and periodic playthings.
12 One of the unusual specialities of north eastern England is toy auctions, with Vectis of Stockton on Tees the largest auctioneers of children's discarded playthings in the world.
13 I can get it for you. But what will you give me if I fetch your plaything?
我可以帮你拿回来。但是如果我把你的玩具找回来,你要给我什么呢?
14 He’d batted at it, thinking it was one of his boy’s playthings.
15 It's a marriage of digital and traditional playthings, and one that requires a bit of explanation to understand.
16 The pessimist feels like fate's plaything and moves slowly.
悲观者则感到自己只能由命运摆布,行动拖拉。
17 We of the more crotchety generations, however, suffered through the plaything’s shrill, maniacal giggles for a sustained period – months, years maybe.
18 So behaviour becomes extraordinarily important. It is not a casual affair to be slurred over or a plaything of a sophisticated mind.
行为是非常重要的,它不是一件随便的、可以含糊的事情,也不是世故头脑的玩具。
19 I seek out costly plaything, and gather lumps of gold and silver.
我追寻昂贵的玩具,收集大批的金银。
20 Stripped of phones, watches and any wires to the wider world, we become the passive playthings of the artist, sternly instructed to move slowly but never stop in a strange dance across this stark countryside.