harlequin
harlequin — 名詞
- harlequinsingular
- harlequinsplural
1. a funny figure in old-fashioned plays, shown in a colourful costume covered in d
丑角
戲劇中穿菱形花紋彩衣的喜劇角色
a funny figure in old-fashioned plays, shown in a colourful costume covered in diamond shapes.
Isabela laughed when the harlequin on stage slipped and tumbled across the floor.
Isabela 看到舞台上的丑角滑倒、在地上翻滾，忍不住笑了出來。
harlequin as a comic character on stage
The actor playing the harlequin wore tights covered in bright red and green diamonds.
扮演丑角的演員穿著布滿鮮豔紅綠菱形的緊身衣。
collocation: play the harlequin
For the school play, Gabriel sewed a harlequin costume from scraps of colourful cloth.
學校話劇前，Gabriel 用五顏六色的碎布縫了一件丑角服裝。
collocation: harlequin costume
Lukas painted a harlequin with a mask and a diamond-patterned suit on the theatre poster.
Lukas 在劇院海報上畫了一個戴面具、穿菱形圖案服裝的丑角。
- harlequin costume
- play the harlequin
用法筆記
Countable; it names a stock character, so it often takes 'the' or 'a', as in 'play the harlequin'.
2. a person who plays the fool and makes silly jokes, rather than acting seriously.
耍寶的人
愛裝傻搞笑、不正經的人
a person who plays the fool and makes silly jokes, rather than acting seriously.
Baraka played the harlequin at every family dinner, pulling faces and telling silly jokes.
Baraka 每次家庭聚餐都扮演耍寶的人，扮鬼臉、講蠢笑話。
figurative: play the harlequin = act the fool
Defne called her brother a harlequin because he clowned around all through the lesson.
Defne 說她弟弟是個耍寶的人，因為他整堂課都在搞笑。
call someone a harlequin
The teacher sighed at the class harlequin, who juggled pencils during the maths test.
老師無奈地看著班上那個耍寶的人，他在數學考試時竟然玩起鉛筆雜耍。
用法筆記
Distinguish from STAGE CHARACTER (sense 1): here the word describes an ordinary person who jokes around, not an actor in a costume.
同根字
- harlequinade名詞