clowning
v. 扮小丑(clown的現在分詞形式)
A clown is a performer in a circus who wears funny clothes and bright make-up, and does silly things in order to make people laugh.
If you clown, you do silly things in order to make people laugh.
Bruno clowned and won affection everywhere.
布魯諾很會耍活寶,到哪兒都受到大家的喜愛。
If you say that someone is a clown, you mean that they say funny things or do silly things to amuse people.
He was laughing, the clown of the twosome.
他在笑,二人搭檔中逗人樂的那個。
If you describe someone as a clown, you disapprove of them and have no respect for them.
I still think I could do a better job than those clowns in Washington.
我還是認為自己會比華盛頓的那些蠢貨幹得好。
1. acting like a clown or buffoon
2. a comic incident or series of incidents
Bev made her laugh, the way she was always clowning around.
貝夫用她一貫滑稽耍寶的方式逗她發笑。
She senses that behind the clowning there is a terrible sense of anguish.
她感覺到在這種滑稽可笑行為的背後隱藏著極大的痛苦。
Doesn't all of this seem like rather questionable clowning?
這一切難道不是破綻百出的滑稽表演 嗎 ?
His clowning is founded on extreme skill as juggler and acrobat.
他的滑稽表演是基於他那魔術師和雜技演員的高超技藝上的.
We did no clowning around.
我們不是敷衍了事.