- 1aB1/əˈmjuːzɪŋ/好笑的；有趣的
Funny and enjoyable — an amusing person, story, or situation makes you smile or laugh, and it is often gently funny rather than extremely funny.
示範例句 · Example
Sam pulled a funny face, and even the teacher found it amusing.
逐字山姆做了一個好笑的鬼臉，連老師都覺得它好笑。
amusing 說的是「這個人／這件事又好笑又讓人開心」——好笑跟享受是綁在一起的，不只是逗人發笑，還讓人願意繼續聽下去。強度通常落在「嘴角上揚、笑一下」，不是笑到停不下來（那是 hilarious）；所以是比 funny 收斂一點、比 hilarious 輕很多。可以想成整組字都是從動詞 amuse（把人逗開心）長出來的：-ing 那一頭是「會逗人的東西」（an amusing story），-ed 那一頭是「被逗開心的人」（she looked amused）。日常講話台灣人最常用 funny；amusing 在寫作、書評、正式一點的場合特別常見。
常見搭配
find something/somebody amusing
覺得某件事／某人好笑
to think that something or someone is funny
I don't find his jokes at all amusing.
highly amusing
非常好笑
very funny and enjoyable
It turned out to be a highly amusing film.
an amusing story / anecdote / incident
趣事；好笑的小故事
a short story about something funny that happened
The book is full of amusing stories about his childhood.
mildly / vaguely amusing
有一點好笑而已
a little funny, but not very funny
The show was mildly amusing but I wouldn't watch it again.
core核心畫面
Picture a small smile spreading, not a burst of laughter. Something has caught your attention in a light, pleasant way and made the moment enjoyable — the size of the reaction is a smile, sometimes a quiet laugh.
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amusingadj/əˈmjuːzɪŋ/
- 1
Entertaining.
- The film has some amusing moments, but it is unlikely to make you laugh out loud.
- We don’t get amusinger as we get older, we grow prosy and repeat ourselves and talk about our complaints and selfish grievances: but our old friends bear up with our dullness for old times’ sake; […]
- 2
Funny, hilarious.
- An amusing incident on the first of these journeys was the checking by signal of the flyer about 3 miles out of Paris, with the result that it was overhauled by the 6.25 p.m. semi-fast from Paris to Montargis, to the unconcealed delight of passengers in the latter.
- [T]hey’d had to call it something – i.e. something that differentiated this occasion from others where they might just go for a pint or a curry. So beer & sausages had somehow happily invented itself, […] The best thing, of course, the amusingest thing, was that no one ever brought beer and Jas had only actually done sausages once.
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