sport是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. (体育) 运动(pl. ) 运动会vi. 开玩笑； 玩耍，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As the breezes sport with the chaff upon some goodly threshing-floor, when men are winnowing while yellow Ceres blows with the wind to sift the chaff from the grain, and the chaff-heaps grow whiter and whiter even so did the Achaeans whiten in the dust which the horses' hoofs raised to the firmament of heaven, as their drivers turned them back to battle, and they bore down with might upon the foe.
-- It may have been a monument to some one long since dead, or it may have been used as a doubling-post in days gone by; now, how-ever, it has been fixed on by Achilles as the mark round which the chariots shall turn; hug it as close as you can, but as you stand in your chariot lean over a little to the left; urge on your right-hand horse with voice and lash, and give him a loose rein, but let the left-hand horse keep so close in, that the nave of your wheel shall almost graze the post; but mind the stone, or you will wound your horses and break your chariot in pieces, which would be sport for others but confusion for yourself.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Besides, he may make bet-ter sport for you when he is grown.
-- They would sit in circles on the hall of the king's council chamber, and scratch for fleas and pretend to be men; or they would run in and out of the roofless houses and collect pieces of plaster and old bricks in a corner, and forget where they had hidden them, and fight and cry in scuffling crowds, and then break off to play up and down the terraces of the king's garden, where they would shake the rose trees and the oranges in sport to see the fruit and flowers fall.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Let them burn their powder,' said the deliberate scout, while bullet after bullet whizzed by the place where he se-curely lay; 'there will be a fine gathering of lead when it is over, and I fancy the imps will tire of the sport afore these old stones cry out for mercy!Uncas, boy, you waste the ker-nels by overcharging; and a kicking rifle never carries a true bullet.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- None knew this better than the idlest boys, who, growing bolder with impunity, waxed louder and more daring; playing odd-or-even under the master's eye, eating apples openly and without rebuke, pinching each other in sport or malice without the least reserve, and cutting their autographs in the very legs of his desk.
-- 'You keep me poor, and plunder me, and make a sport and jest of me besides,' said the old man, turning from one to the other.
-- From sport to sport they hurry her to banish her regrets, and when they win a smile from her, they think that she forgets but she don't.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The one whom she loved, and who loved her--she knew it--abandoned her and made sport of her feelings.
-- One of her present comrades, jesting, said of her that she had given herself up to the sport of charity.
-- And this sport became a habit with her, her life's aim.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And withal I was absolutely afraid to go!As I hesitated, two of the beautiful upperworld people came running in their amorous sport across the daylight in the shadow.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The squire and I were both peering over his shoulder as he opened it, for Dr. Livesey had kindly motioned me to come round from the side-table, where I had been eating, to enjoy the sport of the search.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- So we cover the earth with foulness; life is a blotch of labour, like insects scurrying in filth, so that your collier can have a pianoforte in his parlour, and you can have a butler and a motor-car in your up-to-date house, and as a nation we can sport the Ritz, or the Empire, Gaby Deslys and the Sunday newspapers.
-- He left her alone only when he went skiing, a sport he loved, and which she did not practise.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- said the man ahead--a little, woebegone, helpless-looking sort of individual, who looked as though he had ever been the sport and care of fortune.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They got him out and emptied him; Alas it was too late; His spirit was gone for to sport aloft In the realms of the good and great.
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