farce
名词 n.
动词 v.
英 /fɑːs/
美 /fɑɹs/
英文释义
名词 n.
- A style of humor marked by broad improbabilities with little regard to regularity or method.
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A motion picture or play featuring this style of humor.
— The farce that we saw last night had us laughing and shaking our heads at the same time.
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A situation abounding with ludicrous incidents.
— The first month of labor negotiations was a farce.
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A ridiculous or empty show.
— The United States, he declared, was "a farce controlled by dirty, hook-nosed, circumcised Jew bastards."
- An elaborate lie.
- Forcemeat, stuffing.
动词 v.
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To stuff with forcemeat or other food items.
— The lunch […] consisted […] of […] lobster mayonnaise, cold game sausages, an immense veal and ham pie farced with eggs, truffles, and numberless delicious flavours; besides kickshaws, creams and sweetmeats.
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To fill full; to stuff.
— The first principles of religion should not be farced with school points and private tenets.
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To make fat.
— [I]f thou would’ſt farce thy leane Ribs with it [pork] too, they would not (like ragged Lathes) rub out ſo many Dublets as they do: […]
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To swell out; to render pompous.
— farcing his letter with fustian
- Alternative form of farse (“to insert vernacular paraphrases into (a Latin liturgy)”).
词汇关系
词源
词源 1
Borrowed from Middle French farce (“farce (style of humor); stuffing”) (in the latter sense, via Middle English fars, farsse), from Old French farse, from Medieval Latin farsa, from the feminine perfect passive participle of Latin farciō (“to stuff”). The theatre sense alludes to the pleasant and varied character of certain stuffed food items. Doublet of farse.
词源 2
From Middle English farcen, from Old French farsir, farcir, from Latin farciō (“to cram, stuff”). Doublet of farse.
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