| 词组 | amuse |
| 释义 | amuse The verb amuse (and its past participle amused used adjectivally) commonly occurs with the prepositions at, by, and with. At is somewhat less common than the others, in part because it follows no form of the verb but the past participle. • ... at first surprised, then cynical, and eventually amused at this procession —David Halberstam, Harper's, January 1969 • ... it was a private satisfaction ... to see people occupied and amused at this pecuniary expense — Henry James, The American, 1877 • To be amused by what you read —C. E. Montague, A Writer's Notes on His Trade, 1930 • A small mob ... amused itself by cheering —Joseph Conrad, Chance, 1913 • ... amused the citizens by issuing a series of fancy proclamations —Green Peyton, San Antonio: City in the Sun, 1946 • ... no one will have the slightest difficulty in being amused by it —Daniel George, London Calling, 19 Aug. 1954 • A King may be pardoned for amusing his leisure with wine, wit, and beauty —T. B. Macaulay, The History of England, vol I, 1849 • ... a witness who was seen amusing himself with a lady on a haycock —Oliver Wendell Holmes d. 1935, letter, 20 May 1920 • ... adult thumb-suckers, amusing themselves with comic strips, TV, cars —Elmer V. McCollum, Johns Hopkins Mag., Winter 1966 • ... would begin to amuse himself with some other woman —Marcia Davenport, My Brother's Keeper, 1954 Amuse can also be followed by to and an infinitive: • ... I had been amused to note that... —O. S. Nock, The Railways of Britain, 1947 |
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