橘子朗文词典

knockabout

K 开头单词

音标发音

  • 英式音标 [ˈnɒk.ə.baʊt]
  • 美式音标 [ˈnɑːk.ə.baʊt]
  • 英式发音
  • 美式发音

基本解释

  • adj. 闹剧的，喧嚣的；粗俗的；（衣服）耐磨的；（船）单桅的
  • n. 粗陋的打闹型戏剧表演；流浪汉；火车站小工，农场小工；单桅帆船，小游艇

同根派生

     

英汉例句

    双语例句

  • The clowns gave a knockabout performance.
    小丑们作了令人发笑的滑稽表演。
  • Better to get there by degrees, than through one or two knockabout public deals.
    实现目标最好采用循序渐进的方式，而不是借助一两宗引人注目的公开交易。
  • Her latest, Girls Are Best, is a knockabout look at the overlooked achievements of women down the ages.
    她的近作，女孩最好，则对古往今来的女性做出的受人忽视的成就作了全面的回顾。

    • 权威例句

  • He seems to belong to a different play, one of long, anguished soliloquies interspersed with occasional knockabout intermissions with great sports figures of the past.
    ECONOMIST: The campaign
  • There is some art-world satire, which is gross knockabout stuff, and lists of the best names to drop frequently occupy up to half a page of unredeemed showing-off.
    ECONOMIST: Fiction from Australia

词组短语

    短语

  • knockabout detail 吵吵闹闹的武打
  • Knockabout Wok 喧嚣的锅
  • apparently a knockabout 显然一个杂家小子
  • A knockabout overcoat 一件粗陋的外套

英英字典

    剑桥英英字典

  • (especially of a theatre performance) causing laughter by very silly behaviour