comedian
n. 喜剧演员
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教材释义与例句
喜剧演员；滑稽人物
释义与例句
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1.
An entertainer who performs in a humorous manner, especially by telling jokes.
喜剧演员
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Any person who is humorous or amusing, either characteristically or on a particular occasion.
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A person who performs in theatrical plays.
过时1714, Susanna Centlivre, The Wonder, London: E. Curll and A. Bettesworth, Preface, I Don’t pretend to write a Preface, either to point out the Beauties, or to excuse the Errors, a judicious Reader may possibly discover in the following Scenes, but to give those excellent Comedians their Due, to whom, in some Measure the best Dramatick Writers are oblig’d.
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A writer of comedies.
废旧1783, Hugh Blair, Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres, London: Whitestone et al., Volume 3, Lecture 47, p. 377, […] the Dramatic Author, in whom the French glory most, and whom they justly place at the head of all their Comedians, is, the famous Moliere.
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From French comédien, from comédie + -ien, from Old French comedie, from Latin cōmoedia, from Ancient Greek κωμῳδία (kōmōidía). By surface analysis, comed(y) + -ian.
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