comedy

名词 comedy:

1. light and humorous drama with a happy ending
2. a comic incident or series of incidents
   同义词：drollery, clowning, funniness

1. No one can touch him (ie He is the best) as a comedian/in comedy.
   他这个喜剧演员[演喜剧]没人能比得上。
2. The film is a rich brew of adventure, sex and comedy.
   这部电影是惊险、性爱及幽默的大杂烩。
3. This comedy has had them rolling in the aisles for two weeks.
   这出喜剧让观众们连续两个星期乐得前仰后合。
4. The young actress made her debut in the new comedy.
   这位年轻的女演员在新上演的喜剧里首次登台演出。
5. I prefer comedy to tragedy.
   我喜欢喜剧而不喜欢悲剧。
6. He prefers comedies to tragedies.
   他比较喜欢喜剧而不太喜欢悲剧。
7. There is not much comedy in modern war.
   现代战争并不是好玩的事。

com.e.dy

n.（名词）
【复数】 com.e.dies 缩写 com.

A dramatic work that is light and often humorous or satirical in tone and that usually contains a happy resolution of the thematic conflict.
喜剧：轻松的和常有幽默感的或在调子上是讽刺的戏剧作品，常包括主题冲突的愉快解决
The genre made up of such works.
喜剧体裁：由这样作品形成的体裁
A literary or cinematic work of a comic nature or that uses the themes or methods of comedy.
喜剧作品：有喜剧性质的文学或电影作品，或是采用喜剧的主题或方法的文学或电影作品
Popular entertainment composed of jokes, satire, or humorous performance.
喜剧节目：由笑话、讽刺或幽默表演组成的群众性文艺节目
The art of composing or performing comedy.
编著或表演喜剧艺术
A humorous element of life or literature:
生活或文学的幽默部分：
例句：
the human comedy of political campaigns.
政治运动中人性的喜剧

A humorous occurrence.
幽默事件
n.attributive.（定语名词）
Often used to modify another noun:
常用来修饰其他名词：
例句：
a comedy writer; a comedy show.
喜剧作家；喜剧表演

<习惯用语>comedy of errors
A ludicrous event or sequence of events:
荒唐可笑的事件或事件系列：
例句：
The candidate`s campaign turned out to be a political comedy of errors.
候选人的运动变成一场行为不正的政治喜剧

来源：
Middle English comedie
中古英语 comedie
from Medieval Latin cômôdia
源自 中世纪拉丁语 cômôdia
from Latin cômoedia
源自 拉丁语 cômoedia
from Greek kômôidia
源自 希腊语 kômôidia
from kômôidos [comic actor]
源自 kômôidos [喜剧演员]
kômos [revel]
kômos [狂欢]
aoidos [singer] from aeidein [to sing] * see wed- 2
aoidos [歌唱家] 源自 aeidein [唱歌] *参见 wed- 2