词汇 | comedian |
释义 | comedian noun[ C ] uk /kəˈmiː.di.ən/ us /kəˈmiː.di.ən/(female alsocomedienne, uk /kəˌmiː.diˈen/ us /kəˌmiː.diˈen/) B2 a person whose job is to make people laugh by telling jokes and funny stories or by copying the behaviour or speech of famous people: 喜剧演员;滑稽演员 a stand-up comedian独角喜剧演员 Entertainers in general aerialist artiste balancing act bullfighter clown contortionist double threat emcee hostess juggler majorette performer picador stripper tightrope walker torero triple threat troubadour ventriloquist warm (someone/something) up comedian | American Dictionarycomedian noun[ C ] us/kəˈmid·i·ən/(alsocomic, us/ˈkɑm·ɪk/); (femalecomedienne, us/kəˌmid·iˈen/) a person whose job is to make people laugh by telling jokes and amusing stories or by copying the behavior or speech of famous people: a stand-up comedian Examples of comediancomedian They were without formal dramatic training, and were fantastic jugglers and stilt-walkers and good comedians; and they were very popular. This account highlights another important point: like actors and comedians, punk performers would warm up, both physically and mentally, before the show. For comedians with such obvious antiestablishment (if not explicitly left-wing) leanings and anti-militaristic sympathies, these were potentially dangerous times. There were also circuses with comedians and entertainers for the children. But he doesn't ask who the comedian was or say anything about the film. The audience and the comedians join in laughter about the inadequacies or simplicity of the stage machinery. In between the actual routines much of the dialogue is taken from interviews with or comments from the comedian. In the early years, opera and concert singers were the largest category, followed by actors and comedians. Clearly, comedians build their reputations on much more than this, not least their performance ability. Its economic importance controlled the professional calendar of the comedians during the year. Both men were chagrined to discover that they had been called to serve with the troupe of comedians. Rather than assign longer duration to the stressed -e- of comedian, the unstressed -eof comedy is rendered longer. At the beginning of the following century, this process reached the smaller towns situated on the routes of comedians. The process of the creation of permanent theatres allowed the comedians to perform autos there too. This narrator is not above playing the oldest trick in the comedian's book, the servant as realism's blundering eclipse of romance. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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