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词汇 sportsman
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Definition of sportsman in English:

sportsman

nounPlural sportsmen ˈspɔːtsmənˈspɔrtsmən
  • 1A man who takes part in a sport, especially as a professional.

    (尤指职业)男运动员

    Example sentencesExamples
    • During the 1930s he spent time in Spain and Africa and resided in Key West, Florida, where he gained a reputation as a sportsman and athlete.
    • To begin your marketing adventure, head West, where 32 percent of all zealous American outdoor sportsmen live.
    • During his 16-year career as a professional sportsman, Moran put his BComm from UCD and his accountancy qualification to good use.
    • A different footballing culture, combined with a couple of ‘incidents’ that the Italians didn't find becoming of a professional sportsman, led to his return to England.
    • An athlete and sportsman, he played football (as a goalkeeper), skied and was an avid theatregoer, at one time he even considered becoming an actor.
    • Ice tobogganing is another thrilling sport which only an élite of sportsmen practise, although most of us have seen it on TV.
    • His mother was a piano teacher, his father an official at a mine outside Johannesburg and a keen amateur sportsman (becoming South African marathon champion, no less).
    • Still, he has a knowing charm, a sportsman's physique and the gift of the gab.
    • A keen sportsman, he plays tennis and golf, as well as being an enthusiastic canoeist and sailor.
    • For a lot of pro sportsmen that kind of trauma can send them off the rails.
    • The nation sees its self-respect, its status, its success and failure, in the performance of a small number of young sportsmen on a field of play.
    • Perhaps because he had been a champion sportsman in Europe, he idealised the athletic male body in his early sculptures.
    • I have no objection to professional sportsmen but I don't think they derive the same pleasure from their exertions as the people who play sport primarily for enjoyment.
    • He is now the highest-earning sportsman in the world and is expected to become a billionaire - the first sports person to achieve this - within the next decade.
    • As a young man, he had striven to prove himself physically as a sportsman.
    • Despite being one of the best paid sportsmen of a generation, he was declared bankrupt just one year after playing his last professional match.
    • The Super 12 is a brutally tough competition, but the reality of being professional sportsmen is you've got to take the heat when you don't perform.
    • Indeed, the interviews are very puffy, never once giving us real insight into the psyche and/or soul of a seasoned professional sportsman.
    • Smith also enjoyed the Hurricanes' recent trip to South Africa, it was much better being over there as a sportsman rather than a tourist.
    • The old adage of practice makes perfect applies here, that these sportsmen who now play almost all year long must also practice more than ever before.
    Synonyms
    sportswoman, sportsperson
    1. 1.1dated A man who hunts or shoots wild animals as a pastime.
      〈旧〉打猎爱好者
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Hemingway was a keen sportsman but he was fond of blood sports.
      • A ‘gillie’, by the by, was originally an attendant on a Highland chief, but by the nineteenth century was a sportsman's attendant.
      • The dogs are a reminder that the three friends were also keen sportsmen, and this journey would have provided them ample opportunities for indulgence.
      • Among the draperies and furniture upholstered in this redundancy of plaids are other tropes of the sportsman's lodge - chandeliers, racks of antlers, hunting prints framed in plaids.
  • 2A person who behaves sportingly.

    表现出体育精神的人

    Example sentencesExamples
    • It might have been about having a choice between behaving like a sportsman or behaving like a boor and doing the latter because it suited him at the time.

Derivatives

  • sportsmanlike

  • adjective ˈspɔːtsmənlʌɪk
    • Accept the defeat and give credit to your opponent in a sportsmanlike manner.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Afterwards, all the contenders did the sportsmanlike thing and praised each other.
      • Just to show you I'm still willing to be sportsmanlike, I'll let you have another try.
      • We're all adults here and I think everyone is sportsmanlike and takes it all in stride.
      • Susan soon extended her tiny hand across the board for a sportsmanlike victory shake.
  • sportsmanly

  • adjective

Rhymes

sportsmen

Definition of sportsman in US English:

sportsman

nounˈspôrtsmənˈspɔrtsmən
  • 1A man who takes part in a sport, especially as a professional.

    (尤指职业)男运动员

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Still, he has a knowing charm, a sportsman's physique and the gift of the gab.
    • He is now the highest-earning sportsman in the world and is expected to become a billionaire - the first sports person to achieve this - within the next decade.
    • During the 1930s he spent time in Spain and Africa and resided in Key West, Florida, where he gained a reputation as a sportsman and athlete.
    • I have no objection to professional sportsmen but I don't think they derive the same pleasure from their exertions as the people who play sport primarily for enjoyment.
    • A different footballing culture, combined with a couple of ‘incidents’ that the Italians didn't find becoming of a professional sportsman, led to his return to England.
    • To begin your marketing adventure, head West, where 32 percent of all zealous American outdoor sportsmen live.
    • Despite being one of the best paid sportsmen of a generation, he was declared bankrupt just one year after playing his last professional match.
    • An athlete and sportsman, he played football (as a goalkeeper), skied and was an avid theatregoer, at one time he even considered becoming an actor.
    • Smith also enjoyed the Hurricanes' recent trip to South Africa, it was much better being over there as a sportsman rather than a tourist.
    • During his 16-year career as a professional sportsman, Moran put his BComm from UCD and his accountancy qualification to good use.
    • Ice tobogganing is another thrilling sport which only an élite of sportsmen practise, although most of us have seen it on TV.
    • The nation sees its self-respect, its status, its success and failure, in the performance of a small number of young sportsmen on a field of play.
    • The Super 12 is a brutally tough competition, but the reality of being professional sportsmen is you've got to take the heat when you don't perform.
    • Perhaps because he had been a champion sportsman in Europe, he idealised the athletic male body in his early sculptures.
    • The old adage of practice makes perfect applies here, that these sportsmen who now play almost all year long must also practice more than ever before.
    • As a young man, he had striven to prove himself physically as a sportsman.
    • Indeed, the interviews are very puffy, never once giving us real insight into the psyche and/or soul of a seasoned professional sportsman.
    • For a lot of pro sportsmen that kind of trauma can send them off the rails.
    • His mother was a piano teacher, his father an official at a mine outside Johannesburg and a keen amateur sportsman (becoming South African marathon champion, no less).
    • A keen sportsman, he plays tennis and golf, as well as being an enthusiastic canoeist and sailor.
    Synonyms
    sportswoman, sportsperson
    1. 1.1 A person who behaves sportingly.
      表现出体育精神的人
      Example sentencesExamples
      • It might have been about having a choice between behaving like a sportsman or behaving like a boor and doing the latter because it suited him at the time.
    2. 1.2dated A man who hunts or shoots wild animals as a pastime.
      〈旧〉打猎爱好者
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Hemingway was a keen sportsman but he was fond of blood sports.
      • A ‘gillie’, by the by, was originally an attendant on a Highland chief, but by the nineteenth century was a sportsman's attendant.
      • The dogs are a reminder that the three friends were also keen sportsmen, and this journey would have provided them ample opportunities for indulgence.
      • Among the draperies and furniture upholstered in this redundancy of plaids are other tropes of the sportsman's lodge - chandeliers, racks of antlers, hunting prints framed in plaids.
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