Caper

(noun.) a playful leap or hop.

(noun.) a crime (especially a robbery); 'the gang pulled off a bank job in St. Louis'.

(noun.) pickled flower buds used as a pungent relish in various dishes and sauces.

(noun.) any of numerous plants of the genus Capparis.

(verb.) jump about playfully.

整理:伊冯

• Flimnap, the treasurer, is allowed to cut a caper on the straight rope, at least an inch higher than any other lord in the whole empire. 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
• Jip would bark and caper round us, and go on before, and look back on the landing, breathing short, to see that we were coming. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• Did anybody ever find boiled mutton and caper-sauce growing in a cocoa-nut? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• The greengrocer and his wife then arranged upon the table a boiled leg of mutton, hot, with caper sauce, turnips, and potatoes. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• I feel as if I could be anything or everything; as if I could rant and storm, or sigh or cut capers, in any tragedy or comedy in the English language. 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.
• At least we ate as much of it as was done, and made up with capers. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• I like to fly about and cut capers. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• We eats our biled mutton without capers, and don't care for horse-radish ven ve can get beef. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• Don't go prancing and capering about! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• He capered among the mob like a very maniac. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.

校对:凯特