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Comprehensive English-Chinese Dictionary
Collins English-English Dictionary
- farce [fɑːs]
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1.
n
a broadly humorous play based on the exploitation of improbable situations
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2.
n
farcemeat - another name for forcemeat
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3.
n
the genre of comedy represented by works of this kind
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4.
n
a ludicrous situation or action
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5.
vt.
[tr]
[obsolete]
to enliven (a speech, etc) with jokes
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6.
vt.
to stuff (meat, fowl, etc) with forcemeat
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7.
vt.
[Etymology]
C14 (in the sense: stuffing): from Old French, from Latin farc
i re to stuff, interpolate passages (in the mass, in religious plays, etc) -
8.
n
a writer of or performer in farces
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9.
n
a joker
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1.
n
a broadly humorous play based on the exploitation of improbable situations
Examples
- a bedroom farce
- 有关性爱的笑剧 → bedroom
- His show of grief was a farce.
- 他的那番悲伤的表露完全是虚情假义。 → farce
- to farce a play with old iokes
- 用陈旧的笑话给戏剧增添趣味 → farce
- knockabout farce → knock about
- 这本是一件为国为民的好事, 可现在却成了一出闹戏。
- It should be a good deed for the country and its people, but it has now turned into a farce. → 闹戏
- 舞台上正在上演一出笑剧, 但是我不喜欢看。
- A farce is being played on the stage, which I do not enjoy at all. → 笑剧
- 丑剧
- farce → 剧
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