whist

名词 whist:

1. 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
   同义词：long whist, short whist

1. There are six of us two too many for a game of whist.
   我们有六个人--要打惠斯特牌就多了两个人。
2. Bridge, poker and whist are card-games.
   桥牌、 扑克和惠斯特都是纸牌游戏。
3. Are you in for this game of whist?
   这场惠斯特桥牌你参加吗？
4. Any of the four or five highest cards, especially the ace, king, queen, jack, and ten of the trump suit, in card games such as bridge or whist.
   最高牌扑克游戏例如桥牌或惠斯特中最大的四张或五张牌，尤指么点、国王、王后、杰克及王牌中的10

whist

n.Games （名词）【游戏】
A card game ancestral to bridge, played with a full deck by two teams of two players, in which the last card dealt indicates trump, tricks of four cards are played, and a point is scored for each trick over six won by each team.
惠斯特牌：桥牌的一种原始形式，玩时各由两位玩手组成的两方玩一副纸牌，最后所发的一张牌为王牌，玩时以四张牌为一圈进行，第一圈中各方所赢得的每个点都被算作'分

来源：
Alteration perhaps influenced by the exclamation whist [silence!]
可能受感叹词 whist的影响 [安静!]
of obsolete and dialectal whisk
废语和方言 whisk的变化
perhaps from whisk
可能源自 whisk