| 单词 | fair game |
| 释义 | fair game noun[U] uk/ˌfeə ˈɡeɪm/us/ˌfer ˈɡeɪm/someone or something thatpeopleareallowedtocriticize: 可批评的人（或事物）Celebrities arefairgamefor thepress.社会名流是媒体说三道四的对象。 Weakness and vulnerability
fair game| American Dictionaryfair game noun[U] us/ˈfeər ˈɡeɪm/someone or somethingconsideredreasonabletocriticize: Anyonerunningfor thepresidencyis fair game. Examplesoffair gamefair game Applying the biased criterion to afairgame. From theCambridge English Corpus In general, the fortunes and the conduct of royal persons and their ministers wasfairgamefor gossip. From theCambridge English Corpus Any political or economic structure that exceeds and seems to erode the power and independence of nation-states appearsfairgamefor the "empire" label. From theCambridge English Corpus Domain-specific matchers, retrieval systems, and even similarity metrics arefairgame. From theCambridge English Corpus Others, not explicitly discussed here, such as the status of discourse deictic expressions, nominalization resolution, and global coherence studies arefairgamefor basic, theoretical research. From theCambridge English Corpus I must also assure you that we are playing a veryfairgamefor our farmers and producers vis-à-vis third countries. FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - English We must play afairgamewithin the world. FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - English They may be thought by the manufacturers or merchants to be "fairgame". From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 On one occasion someone suggested that the real reason for the increase was because so many people regarded the railways asfairgame. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 He was against the private sector, against private enterprise and against a capitalist system—indeed, anything that contributed to its downfall wasfairgamefor him. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 But simply because the man is the director of a company or of a group of companies, he isfairgame. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 It is true that all great undertakings—undertakings of this character at any rate—arefairgamefor the critic. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 I do not believe that that is afairgamewhich any of us would want to play in any circumstances. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 Their lives and behaviour are regarded asfairgamefor reporting, or misreporting. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 The mining industry isfairgamefor every agitator who cares to come along. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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