Farce

(noun.) a comedy characterized by broad satire and improbable situations.

(verb.) fill with a stuffing while cooking; 'Have you stuffed the turkey yet?'.

克劳德整理

• Since that, we have quarrelled, and I have vainly asked him to return me my farce or pay me for it. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• I am too old, he replied: and then asked me how the farce went off. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• They were borrowed from the French, as was the farce, but Livius had adapted it with some taste to the English stage. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• Livius's little farce of _Maid and Wife_ was advertised for the approaching Monday. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• I said to myself, 'He has played his vile farce before everybody else in the house. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• And we are carrying on this little farce to keep up appearances, and isn't it refreshing! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• This entertainment, which might be considered as a school of military virtue, was succeeded by a farce that debased the dignity of human nature. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Ah, what a farce it was! 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• He felt he had been a complete fool, that the whole scene had been a farce of the first water. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• I promised to do this on my word, and nine o'clock on the next evening was fixed for his reading the farce to me. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• Still they were all exceedingly amused and were more like people coming out from a farce or a juggler than from a court of justice. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• She wanted to show little Fanny, for by that appellation we distinguished her eldest daughter, the Harlequin farce, before she returned to school. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• I sent him my farce, which he acknowledged in a letter now in my possession, where he promises to take an early opportunity of reading it. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• It's a farce--a crazy farce, he repeated, his eyes fixed on the long vista of the room reflected in the blotched glass between the windows. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• Whether he said this or not there can be no doubt but that the great astronomer knew the performance was a farce, and that the world did move in spite of all the Inquisition could declare. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.

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