[每日] regale (v) 款待
Word of the Day (Tuesday September 9, 2008)
regale \rih-GAY(uh)L\, transitive verb:
Pronunciation: http://0rz.tw/9b4Ot
1. To entertain with something that delights.
2. To entertain sumptuously with fine food and drink.
intransitive verb:
1. To feast.
noun:
1. A sumptuous feast.
2. A choice food; a delicacy.
3. Refreshment.
If I've been away, and the boys do remember to ask about my trip,
I remark on their thoughtfulness by saying, 'Thanks for asking!'
and then regale them with stories about my journey.
-- Lucy Calkins, Raising Lifelong Learners: A Parent's Guide
He might also regale them with tales of how his Magic team beat
Jordan's Bulls, 108-102, in Game 6 to win their four-of-seven-
game Eastern Conference semifinal series before a stunned crowd
of 24,332 tonight at the United Center.
-- "Bulls Burst in the Air as Magic Moves On", New York Times,
May 19, 1995
Levin settled his guests in the dense, cool shade of the young
aspens on a bench and some stumps purposely put there for
visitors to the bee-house who might be afraid of the bees, and
he went off himself to the hut to get bread, cucumbers, and
fresh honey, to regale them with.
-- Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina, translated by Constance Garnett
Regale comes from French régaler, "to entertain." It is related
to gallant.
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