clown

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n. 小丑, 乡下人

发音

CA /ˈklaʊ̯n/
其它
US /ˈklaʊ̯n/
UK /ˈklaʊ̯n/
US /ˈklæʊ̯n/
AU /ˈklæʊ̯n/
NZ /ˈklæʊ̯n/
ZA /ˈklaːn/

词形变化

clowns 复数 clowns clowned clowning clowns 三单 clowning 现在分词 clowned 过去式 clowned 过去分词

别名

clowne cloyne

教材释义与例句

名词

小丑；乡下人；粗鲁笨拙的人

动词

扮小丑；装傻

释义与例句

n. A2
  1. 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.

    小丑

  2. 2.

    A person who acts in a silly fashion.

    小丑

    弄臣

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

  3. 3.

    A stupid person.

  4. 4.

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

    废旧
  5. 5.

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

    废旧

    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. 6.

    A clownfish.

v.
  1. 1.

    To act in a silly or playful fashion.

    不及物
  2. 2.

    To ridicule, make fun of.

    及物 非裔美国英语

词汇关系

名词

同义词 4

goof buffoon goofball Merry Andrew

上位词 7

fool comic comedian sap muggins saphead tomfool

下位词 7

fool jester harlequin zany motley fool pantaloon whiteface
动词

同义词 2

antic clown around

上位词 2

joke jest

相关短语

clown shoe clown shoes clown doctor 小丑医生 clown around n. 胡闹 clown car clown cars clown doctors clown about clown fish clown beetle clown beetles clown therapy clown world clown worlds clown on

词源

From earlier clowne, cloyne (“man of rustic or coarse manners, boor, peasant”); likely of North Germanic origin, akin to Icelandic klunni (“clumsy fellow, klutz”), Swedish kluns (“clumsy fellow”), all from Middle Low German klunz, from klunt (“pile, lump, something thick”); according to Pokorny, this could be related to a group of Germanic derivatives of Proto-Indo-European *gel- (“to ball up; amass”), such as Proto-West Germanic *klott (“lump”), Proto-Germanic *klūtaz (“clod, lump”), *kultaz (“lump, bundle”), etc. Alternatively, directly from Low German (compare North Frisian klönne (“clumsy fellow, klutz”), Dutch kluns (“clumsy fellow, klutz”), Dutch kloen (“uncouth person, lout”)), themselves from the same ultimate source as above. Unlikely from Latin colōnus (“colonist, farmer”), although learned awareness of this term may have influenced semantic development.

来源：wiktionary