Whist

(noun.) a card game for four players who form two partnerships; a pack of 52 cards is dealt and each side scores one point for each trick it takes in excess of six.

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• They can't sit over their wine, they can't play at whist, and they can't pay a lady a compliment. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• I shall be too busy for whist; I shall have two parishes, said the Vicar, preferring not to discuss the virtues of that game. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• You play at whist, Mr. Hartright? 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• Whist and speculation; which will amuse me most? 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.
• At seventy five I expect to wear loud waistcoats with fancy buttons; also gaiter tops; at eighty I expect to learn how to play bridge whist and talk foolishly to the ladies. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• The former left them soon after tea to fulfill her evening engagements; and Elinor was obliged to assist in making a whist table for the others. 简·奥斯汀. 理智与情感.
• He was a whist player himself, and perhaps might feel that it would not much amuse him to have her for a partner. 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.
• They had solemn rubbers of whist, when they went upstairs after drinking, and their carriages were called at half past ten. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• The doctor took snuff with everybody, chatted with everybody, laughed, danced, made jokes, played whist, did everything, and was everywhere. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• She hates whist I know; but is there no round game she cares for? 简·奥斯汀. 理智与情感.
• You will not like us at Middlemarch, I feel sure, she said, when the whist-players were settled. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• You see, I can leave the whist-table easily enough, he went on, smiling at Lydgate, now I don't play for money. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• You will want your whist at home when we go to Lowick, and Henrietta Noble never was a whist-player. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• At the Vincys' there was always whist, and the card-tables stood ready now, making some of the company secretly impatient of the music. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• It was shown that, after dinner on the day of his death, he had played a rubber of whist at the latter club. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.

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