caper
caper 英 [ˈkeɪpə(r)] 美 [ˈkepɚ]
vi. 雀跃 n. 跳跃，雀跃；刺山柑花蕾；不法活动
进行时:capering 过去式:capered 过去分词:capered 第三人称单数:capers 名词复数:capers
- A goofy little joke or prank, a crime, or a ridiculous adventure is called a caper. For example, your quest for an American newspaper turned into a caper that took you all over the Irish countryside.
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- vi. 雀跃
- n. 跳跃，雀跃；刺山柑花蕾；不法活动
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1. Back to my kitchen caper.
回到我的厨房活动中。
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2. Pearl, looking at this bright wonder of a house, began to caper and dance, and imperatively required that the whole breadth of sunshine should be stripped off its front, and given her to play with.
珠儿望着这幢灿烂而奇妙的住宅，开始雀跃起来，使劲要求从住宅前腿上把整整一层阳光给剥下来，好让她玩个痛快。
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3. The outer shell of the story is an elaborate caper.
故事的大框架讲述的是一个精心设计的阴谋。
- caper (n.1) type of prickly Mediterranean bush, also in reference to the plant's edible buds, late 14c., from Latin capparis (source of Italian cappero, French câpre, German Kaper), from Greek kapparis "the caper plant or its fruit," which is of uncertain origin. Arabic kabbar, Persian kabar are from Greek. Perhaps reborrowed into English 16c. The final -s was mistaken for a plural inflection in English and dropped.
- caper (n.2) by 1590s, "a playful leap or jump, a skip or spring as in dancing," from caper (v.). Meaning "prank" is from 1840 via notion of "sportive action;" that of "crime" is from 1926. To cut capers "dance in a frolicsome way" is from c. 1600.
- caper (v.) "to leap, skip, prance," 1580s, apparently short for obsolete capriole "to leap, skip," which is probably from Italian capriolare "jump in the air" (see cab). Related: Capered; capering.
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