Meaning of amuzo | Babel Free

Definitions

amusement, entertainment

Equivalents

Examples

“Vladimir Varankin, Metropoliteno, — … Ĉu vi jam estas vizitinta tiun ĉi teatron? — Ne! Ĝi estas burĝa amuzo! “Have you ever been to this theatre?” “No! It’s bourgeois entertainment!””

“Stellan Engholm, Al Torento, Ĉapitro 1,”

When we were young, did we need money to dance and enjoy ourselves? But now? No entertainment that doesn’t cost money; and any entertainment that doesn’t cost anything is no longer entertainment.

“Vilhelmo Lutermano (translator), La Transformiĝo (Die Verwandlung / The Metamorphosis) by Franz Kafka, section II,”

a way of life up till then that he had been delighted for her to enjoy: dressing nicely, sleeping late, helping about the house, taking part in a few modest entertainments, and above all playing the violin (Joyce Crick translation, Oxford, 2009)

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