喜樂美語

You can picture the circus figure: huge shoes, red nose, painted face, falling over on purpose. The whole point of this person is that being ridiculous is the job — the silliness is put on for other people to laugh at. Every other use of the word looks back at that painted figure and asks: is this person playing the fool on purpose, or only acting like one?

可以想成馬戲團裡那個大鞋子、紅鼻子、臉上塗滿油彩的人：他故意跌倒、故意出糗，因為「看起來很蠢」正是他的工作。這個畫面裡有兩層——一是刻意逗笑，二是行為看起來很傻。後面所有用法，其實都是拿這兩層去看一個真人：他是在裝傻逗大家，還是他真的就那樣。

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n複數 clowns

v過去式 clowned過去分詞 clowned-ing clowning三單 clowns

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原始詞典資料8 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。

clownnoun/ˈklaʊ̯n/

  • 1

    A slapstick performance artist often associated with a circus and usually characterized by bright, oversized clothing, a red nose, face paint, and a brightly colored wig.

    • Apart from the many instances in which Stalin himself held the top position-as philosopher, theoretician, statesman, strategist, economist, etc.--it was known, for example, who was the greatest painter, biologist, or circus clown.
    • Over there in Norway, the churches all burn down / Let's go dress in goth clothes and get painted like a clown
  • 2

    A person who acts in a silly fashion.

    • He was regarded as the clown of the school, always playing pranks.
  • 3

    A stupid person.

    • "The dealers snatched at the state of intellectual exhaustion and scepticism of all values that followed the first world war to abolish values and substitute for them an arbitrary mumbo-jumbo of occultism and pseudo-Freudianism, which they tagged on to the works of studio clowns like Picasso and Modigliani and the like."
    • Doc Bruce Banner, belted by gamma rays, Turns into the Hulk – Ain’t he unglamour-rays! [unglamorous] Wreckin’ the town with the power of a bull, Ain’t no monster, clown. Who is as lovable As ever-lovin’ Hulk? - Hulk! Hulk!
  • 4

    archaicA man of coarse nature and manners; an awkward fellow; an illbred person; a boor.

    • This loutish clown is such that you never saw so ill - favoured a vizar
    • […] three things ought always to be kept under: a mastiff dog, a stone horse and a clown; and really I think a snarling, cross-grained clown to be the most unlucky beast of three.
  • 5

    archaicOne who works upon the soil; a rustic; a churl; a yokel.

    • The clown, the child of nature, without guile.
    • He […] began to descend to familiar questions, endeavouring to accommodate his discourse to the grossness of rustic understandings. The clowns soon found that he did not know wheat from rye, and began to despise him; one of the boys, by pretending to show him a bird's nest, decoyed him into a ditch; […]
  • 6

    A clownfish.

    • While the tomato clownfish Amphiprion frenatus has been spawned in captivity, wild-caught tomato clowns are more often seen for sale.

clownverb/ˈklaʊ̯n/

  • 1

    To act in a silly or playful fashion.

    • Except for Rasheena, the rest of the baby mamas was at least struggling to live halfway right. They used to clown and act shitty whenever they came by Noojie's and saw Carmiesha there. But every last one of them ended up being grateful to her for the things she did for their kids.
  • 2

    To ridicule, make fun of.

    • The show Dismissed was one of my favorites, because I like to see people get clowned.
    • All my comrades were laughing and clowning me, but shit, that didn't stop me from talking more shit.

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