Слово "amuse". Англо-русский словарь Мюллера

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1. I was considerably amused by certain remarkable sexual habits that the good Harold Haze had had according to Charlotte who thought my mirth improper; but otherwise her autobiography was as devoid of interests as her autopsy would have been.
   Меня немало позабавили некоторые необыкновенные половые причуды, свойственные почтенному Гарольду Гейзу, по словам Шарлотты, которая сочла гогот мой неприличным; вообще же говоря, ее раскрытие души оказалось столь же мало интересно, как было бы вскрытие ее тела.
   Лолита. Набоков Владимир, стр. 78
2. For some time the two men amused themselves with watching the movement of vague forms on the edge of the firelight.
   Оба стали с интересом наблюдать за смутными силуэтами, двигающимися позади костра.
   Белый Клык. Джек Лондон, стр. 10
3. In fact, he looked a little amused. The face of a man who has seen this reaction scores of times-maybe hundreds. "All right. But it better be good." "Oh, it is. " Donatti leaned back. "I told you we were pragmatists here. As pragmatists, we have to start by realizing how difficult it is to cure an addiction to tobacco. The relapse rate is almost eight-five per cent. The relapse rate for heroin addicts is lower than that. It is an extraordinary problem. Extraordinary." Morrison glanced into the wastebasket. One of the cigarettes, although twisted, still looked smokeable. Donatti laughed good-naturedly, reached into the wastebasket, and broke it between his fingers. "State legislatures sometimes hear a request that the prison systems do away with the weekly cigarette ration. Such proposals are invariably defeated. In a few cases where they have passed, there have been fierce prison riots. Riots, Mr Morrison. Imagine it." "I," Morrison said, "am not surprised." "But consider the implications. When you put a man in prison you take away any normal sex life, you take away his liquor, his politics, his freedom of movement. No riots-or few in comparison to the number of prisons. But when you take away his cigarettes-wham! bam!" He slammed his fist on the desk for emphasis. "During World War I, when no one on the German home front could get cigarettes, the sight of German aristocrats picking butts out of the gutter was a common one. During World War II, many American women turned to pipes when they were unable to obtain cigarettes. A fascinating problem for the true pragmatist, Mr Morrison."
   Казалось, что происходящее даже забавляет его, и он наблюдал подобные сцены сотни раз.
   Корпорация "Бросайте курить" Стивен КИНГ, стр. 8