buffoon
buffoon 英 [bəˈfu:n] 美 [bəˈfun]
n. 丑角；滑稽剧演员
名词复数:buffoons
- A buffoon is someone whose ridiculous behavior is a source of amusement to others. People you might call a buffoon are a political rival or the guy at work who tells silly jokes at office parties.
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- n. 丑角；滑稽剧演员
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1. "They are drawing their inner buffoon, " explains the teacher.
“他们在描绘自己内心的丑角，”老师解释说。
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2. And when he had said this, the buffoon vanished; Zarathustra, however, went on through the dark streets.
小丑说完了这段话，就消失了；查拉图斯特拉于是继续走过昏暗的街道。
- buffoon (n.) 1540s, "type of pantomime dance;" 1580s, "professional comic fool;" 1590s in the general sense "a clown, a joker;" from Middle French bouffon (16c.), from Italian buffone "jester," from buffa "joke, jest, pleasantry," from buffare "to puff out the cheeks," a comic gesture, of echoic origin. Also see -oon.
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