词汇 | antics |
释义 | antics noun[ plural ] uk /ˈæn.tɪks/ us /ˈæn.t̬ɪks/ funny, silly, or strange behaviour: 古怪而可笑的举动;噱头 But the rock star, whose stage antics used to include smashing guitars, is older and wiser now.这个摇滚歌星以前常耍诸如摔碎吉他之类的噱头,但是随着年龄增长,他现在变得理性多了。 The crowds were once again entertained by the number-one tennis player's antics on and off the court.这位头号网球运动员在场上场下做的滑稽动作再次把观众逗得开怀不已。 Stupid and silly behaviour buffoonery dottiness dumbness fatuousness folly frivolousness fruit loopery game idiocy imprudence ludicrousness madness mindlessness oafishness obtuseness puerility screwball the games (that) people playidiom tomfoolery vacuousness antics | American Dictionaryantics plural noun us/ˈæn·tɪks/ amusing, silly, or strange behavior: The antics of the clowns amused the children. Examples of anticsantics But the immaterial ponderings and playful antics of the long dead were not all the mediums channeled. Our theory specifies a unique set of properties for processes involving relations of different antics. And he seemed to be thoroughly enjoying himself as he watched some of the humorous antics of the possessed mediums. They are ideal critics of the antics of self-consciously ' authentic' performers. Possession cases were unstable and unpredictable, and the antics of adolescent demoniacs had a disturbing tendency to invert and overturn the established age, gender, and social hierarchy. Such moral advice is said to be cleverly inserted into the dialogue even of 'traditional' stories, and is enlivened with jokes and comic antics. One of the comic antics that threads its way through the novel, for example, is the narrator's escalating antipathy towards the botanist, whom he finds mentally lax, romantic, and mawkish. Moving beyond graphical programming languages to the command-line antics of interpreted text-based programming languages, the abstract potential of the system, along with its difficulty of use, continues to grow. Buckingham's antics may have sunk the already flimsy ship. Such are the antics that extreme disquiet has been expressed by parents and governors alike. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He told us about the antics that he had to perform —for example, climbing drainpipes—in order to get the respect of those children. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Such urchin antics have no appeal in this debate. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Our grandfathers and even our fathers would not recognise us in the sort of antics in which we have been engaged tonight. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Perhaps the reputation that has been created is because of the antics of a few, rather than the good work of many. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The industry is not helped by the antics of the coal mining dispute. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 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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