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| 1 | T to give a performance that people enjoy （通过表演）使快乐，给…娱乐 |
| In professional sports, the responsibility is on everyone to entertain the crowd. 在职业体育中，每个人都有娱乐观众的责任。 |
| | 1a | I/T to receive someone as a guest and give them food and drink or other forms of enjoyment 招待；款待；请客 | | The Duke loved to entertain when he was staying at Windsor. 公爵住在温莎城堡时，喜欢大宴宾客。 | | The company had incurred $37,000 in expenses entertaining a client. 该公司耗费了37000美元招待一位客户。 | |
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| 2 | T formal to consider an idea or feeling and allow it to develop in your mind 考虑；心存；怀着 |
| If de Gaulle entertained hopes of an alliance, he was to be swiftly disappointed. 如果戴高乐心存联盟的希望，他很快就会失望的。 |
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