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		Definition of sportsman in English: sportsmannounPlural 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 - 1.1dated  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.
 
 
 Derivativesadjective 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.
 
 
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    Definition of sportsman in US English: sportsmannounˈspôrtsmənˈspɔrtsmən 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 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.
 
  - 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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