game基本信息
读法：英 [geɪm] 美 [ɡem]
释义：
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英英释义
Noun:
"he thought of his painting as a game that filled his empty time"
"his life was all fun and games"
"he is serving for the game"
"I saw through his little game from the start"
"she"s in show biz"
"for him, life is all fun and games"
"a game leg"
"I"m betting on the new horse"
中英词源
game 游戏，比赛，猎物
来自古英语前缀ge-, 一起，词源同com-, cum. man, 人。即一群人在一起玩乐，在古代特别指打猎，行猎。
- game
- game: There are two games in English. The noun game ‘pastime, sport’ [OE] used to be a fairly widespread word in the Germanic languages (Swedish and Danish still preserve it as gamman and gammen respectively) and may well go back to a prehistoric Germanic compound formed from the collective prefix *ga- and *mann- ‘person’ (source of English man), and denoting literally ‘people together, participating’.
Its Old English was gamen which, before it became reduced to game (a process which began in the 13th century but was not complete until the 16th century), bequeathed gammon (as in backgammon) and probably also gamble to modern English. Game ‘plucky’ [18] is probably an adjectival use of the same word. Game ‘lame’ [18], however, and its derivative gammy [19], are not related; they may come from archaic French gambi ‘crooked’.
=> gamble, man; gammy - game (adj.2)
- "ready for action, unafraid, and up to the task;" probably literally "spirited as a game-cock," 1725, from game-cock "bird bred for fighting" (1670s), from game (n.) in the "sport, amusement" sense. Middle English adjectives gamesome, gamelich meant "joyful, playful, sportive."
- game (n.)
- c. 1200, from Old English gamen "joy, fun; game, amusement," common Germanic (cognates: Old Frisian game "joy, glee," Old Norse gaman "game, sport; pleasure, amusement," Old Saxon gaman, Old High German gaman "sport, merriment," Danish gamen, Swedish gamman "merriment"), said to be identical with Gothic gaman "participation, communion," from Proto-Germanic *ga- collective prefix + *mann "person," giving a sense of "people together."
The -en was lost perhaps through being mistaken for a suffix. Meaning "contest for success or superiority played according to rules" is first attested c. 1200 (of athletic contests, chess, backgammon). Especially "the sport of hunting, fishing, hawking, or fowling" (c. 1300), thus "wild animals caught for sport" (c. 1300), which is the game in fair game (see under fair (adj.)), also gamey. Meaning "number of points required to win a game" is from 1830. Game plan is 1941, from U.S. football; game show first attested 1961. - game (adj.1)
- "lame," 1787, from north Midlands dialect, of unknown origin, perhaps a variant of gammy (tramps" slang) "bad," or from Old North French gambe "leg" (see gambol (n.)).
- game (v.)
- Middle English gamen "to sport, joke, jest," from Old English gamenian "to play, jest, joke;" see game (n.). The Middle English word is little recorded from c. 1400 and modern use for "to play at games" (1520s) probably is a new formation from the noun; and it might have been re-re-coined late 20c. in reference to computer games. Related: Gamed; gaming.
词态变化
复数 games;
第三人称单数 games;
过去式 gamed;
过去分词 gamed;
现在分词 gaming;
比较级 gamer;
最高级 gamest;
权威造句
- 1. Game wardens were appointed to enforce hunting laws in New Hampshire.
- 狩猎监督官被派到新罕布什尔州去执行狩猎法令。
来自柯林斯例句
- 2. Argentina came to a virtual standstill while the game was being played.
- 在比赛进行的时候，阿根廷全国几乎陷入了停顿状态。
来自柯林斯例句
- 3. That programme will include live commentary on the England-Ireland game.
- 那个节目将包括英格兰与爱尔兰比赛的实况报道。
来自柯林斯例句
- 4. Circumstances dictated that they played a defensive rather than attacking game.
- 比赛形势决定了他们要打防守战而不是进攻战。
来自柯林斯例句
- 5. Selling was my game and I intended to be a winner.
- 销售是我的老本行，我想做一个成功的销售者。
来自柯林斯例句
近反义词
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相似短语
单词分析
这些名词均有“体育运动”之意。athletics集合名词，常指需要体力与技术的sports与games，特指跳高、跑等竞技项目。
sport含义比athletics广泛，指各种形式的体育运动，尤指户外的如游泳、钓鱼、划船、登山等运动。
game主要指决定胜负的游戏、比赛，通常有一定的规则，参加者必须遵守，如蓝球、足球等。也作“运动会”解。
记忆方法
1、gam- + -e.
2、含义2: perhaps a variant of gammy (tramps" slang) "bad," or from Old North French gambe "leg". => lame.
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