zany

英语[编辑]

词源[编辑]

源自中古法语 zani、zanni，源自意大利语 zanni (“戴面具的丑角”)，源自Zanni，Giovanni的方言形式。

发音[编辑]

国际音标^(帮助)：/ˈzeɪni/
- （英国）音频（文档）
韵部：-eɪni
断字：za‧ny

形容词[编辑]

zany (比较级 zanier, 最高级 zaniest)

滑稽的
- 1986, John le Carré, A Perfect Spy:
  And I will admit now but never then that, more than once, listening to the Viennese chattering their zany German on the pavements, or taking himself to one of the struggling small theatres that were cropping up in cellars and bombed houses...
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- 1999, Alyn Shipton, “Gillespiana”, 出自 Groovin' High: The Life of Dizzy Gillespie, Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN，页号 293:
  Press articles emphasized his [Dizzy Gillespie's] ambassadorial role and drew attention to the paradox that he was a shrewd musician and leader despite his zany image.
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- 2000, Alan H. Levy, Rube Waddell: The Zany, Brilliant Life of a Strikeout Artist, Jefferson, N.C.: London: McFarland & Company, →ISBN，页号 241:
  When playing for Connie Mack, Rube [Waddell]'s pattern after one of his zany outbursts usually involved promises of good behavior and a spurt of excellent pitching.
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- 2013, William Paul, “No Escaping the Depression: Utopian Comedy and the Aesthetics of Escapism in Frank Capra's You Can't Take it with You (1938)”, 出自 A Companion to Film Comedy, Chichester, West Sussex: John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN，页号 280:
  This runs counter to the play, where Grandpa is always benignly indulgent of all his zany progeny and their equally zany spouses, and is even somewhat zany himself.
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- 2015, Kimberly D. Nettles-Barcelón, “The Sassy Black Cook and the Return of the Magic Negress: Popular Representations of Black Women's Food Work”, 出自 Jennifer Jensen Wallach 编, Dethroning the Deceitful Pork Chop: Rethinking African American Foodways from Slavery to Obama, Fayetteville, Ark.: University of Arkansas Press, →ISBN，页号 117:
  The montage goes on to show scenes of Carla singing, dancing, meditating, breaking the tension amongst her co-cheftestants with sing-a-longs and “hootie-hoo” lessons, and ultimately wooing the judges with a combination of her zany personality and solid cooking skills.
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荒唐的，可笑的

近义词[编辑]

wacky

衍生词汇[编辑]

名词[编辑]

zany (复数 zanies)

(弃用) 小丑（尤指滑稽模仿主要丑角的）
- a. 1631, John Donne, Epistle to Mr. I. W.
  Then write that I may follow, and so be / Thy echo, thy debtor, thy foil, thy zany.
- 1728, Alexander Pope, “Book III”, 出自 The Dunciad:
  O great restorer of the good old stage, / Preacher at once, and Zany of thy age!
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- 1996, Fiona Haslam, From Hogarth to Rowlandson: Medicine in Art in Eighteenth-century Britain, Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, →ISBN，页号 69:
  Part of the illusory world is the 'quack' or mountebank who can be seen standing on his own special platform in the centre of the crowd […]。Such a person travelled round to fairs and markets selling his nostrums or medicines. This character is dressed in a lace hat, long periwig and embroidered coat with lace cuffs, and is attended by his zany, who is wearing a chequered harlequin outfit and is 'quacking' or 'puffing' his master's wares. No seventeenth- or eighteenth-century mountebank was complete without his zany or 'Merry Andrew' – a term originally applied to Dr Andrew Boorde, physician to Henry VIII and noted for his ready wit and humour, who was the subject of many broadside ballads.
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动词[编辑]

zany (第三人称单数简单现在时 zanies, 现在分词 zanying, 一般过去时及过去分词 zanied)

(弃用) 滑稽地模仿

参考资料[编辑]

John Dover Wilson, comp. (1911) Life in Shakespeare's England: A Book of Elizabethan Prose, Cambridge: At the University Press, OCLC 2938084。

异序词[编辑]

Zayn, zayn