Entertain

(verb.) take into consideration, have in view; 'He entertained the notion of moving to South America'.

(verb.) provide entertainment for.

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• Yes, he said, I think that he would rather suffer anything than entertain these false notions and live in this miserable manner. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• O, fear not, she continued, fear not that I should entertain hope! 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• They lagged behind, while Elizabeth, Kitty, and Darcy were to entertain each other. 简·奥斯汀. 傲慢与偏见.
• We are such fools, we can't entertain each other at table. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• My Governor, I am sure, will always be proud to entertain one whom I so much esteem. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• I suppose I should now entertain none but fatherly feelings for you: do you think so? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• That is why it seems to me so foolish to entertain them when they come to New York. 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
• I entertained you, sir, said John, reining up his palfrey haughtily, for my follower, but not for my counsellor. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• This airy young Barnacle was quite entertained by his simplicity in supposing for a moment that it was. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• I clung to my ferocious habits, yet half despised them; I continued my war against civilization, and yet entertained a wish to belong to it. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• He would listen to one's conversation just as long as he was entertained by it and no longer. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• At these tables the _élite_ of the company were to be entertained, strict rules of equality not being more in fashion at Briarfield than elsewhere. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• In 1805 two fatal blows were struck at any hope he may have entertained of ultimate victory, by the British Admirals Calder and Nelson. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• The very port and gait of a swan, or turkey, or peacock show the high idea he has entertained of himself, and his contempt of all others. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• I saw the word, and am curious to know how it could be so very entertaining to the one, and so very distressing to the other. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
• But sometimes of an evening, before we went to cards, he would read something aloud out of the Elegant Extracts, very entertaining. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
• The people here live in alleys two yards wide, which have a smell about them which is peculiar but not entertaining. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• But, he intimated that when she came home he should hope to have the pleasure of entertaining me. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• He sat entertaining them with his finest compliments, and his choicest conversation; but he conveyed to them, all the time, 'No, no, no, dear ladies. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• When the strange idea flashed across her that his words had reference to himself, she was incredulous, and ashamed of entertaining it. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• Hows'ever,' said he, 'this isn't entertaining to Miss Bella. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• She entertains me; and she is so extremely pretty, that I have great pleasure in looking at her. 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.
• It entertains _me_ more than many other things have done; but then I am unlike other people, I dare say. 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.
• I will state, however, General, that I am equally anxious for peace with yourself, and the whole North entertains the same feeling. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• I wish, if my friend Wardle entertains no objection, that his daughter should be married from my new house, on the day I take possession of it. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• Mr. Tulkinghorn rubs his head with the key while she entertains herself with a sarcastic laugh. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.

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