One picture holds all three uses: a match that is under way. There are two sides, a set of rules everyone agreed to, and a result that is still open. Some uses of sporting point at the match itself — a sporting event, a sporting achievement. One points at how people behave inside it — waiting for the other team instead of taking the easy points. One points at the state of the score — still close enough that either side could win, which is a sporting chance.
From the word’s history
By surface analysis the word is sport + -ing, so it reads roughly as 'having the look of sport'. That fits both branches: things that belong to sport, and behaviour that looks the way behaviour on a playing field is supposed to look.
按字面拆開，sporting 就是 sport 加上 -ing，讀起來像「帶著運動那個樣子的」。這條線索同時解釋了兩邊：一邊是屬於運動的東西，一邊是「照運動場上該有的樣子」做人。
Wiktionary entry for 'sporting' supplied in this packet (kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:1138340858): 'By surface analysis, sport + -ing.' This is a surface analysis of the modern word, not a deeper history.
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原始詞典資料6 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
sportingadj/ˈspɔɹtɪŋ/
- 1
Pertaining to sports
- He got a job in a sporting goods store.
- 2
Exhibiting sportsmanship.
- Quite sporting of you to call that foul on yourself.
- 3
Fair, generous; game.
- It was very sporting of her to let us off like that.
- 4
obsoleteOf or relating to unseemly male excesses, especially gambling, prostitution, or similar recreational activities.
- New Yorkers coined the term “sporting culture” to identify the boisterous male culture then on display on the city's streets.
sportingnoun/ˈspɔɹtɪŋ/
- 1
The act of taking part in a sport.
- […] the unprofitable plays, frivolous recreations, sportings, and gamings which are invented to pass away the precious time, and divert the mind from the witness of God […]
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。