Farce的意思|Farce的解释-里氏词典

farce [fɑrs]

n. 闹剧, 滑稽剧, 胡闹

He likes to watch farces at weekends to relax himself.
他喜欢在周末看滑稽剧来放松自己。
Their negotiations were a farce since their leaders had already made the decision.
他们的谈判简直就是一场荒唐的笑剧，因为他们的领导们早就作出决定了。
His show of grief was a farce.
他竟然显出一副悲伤的样子简直滑稽。

farce

[ noun ]

a comedy characterized by broad satire and improbable situations

<noun.communication>

mixture of ground raw chicken and mushrooms with pistachios and truffles and onions and parsley and lots of butter and bound with eggs

<noun.food>

[ verb ]

fill with a stuffing while cooking

<verb.change>

stuff

Have you stuffed the turkey yet?

Farce \Farce\, n. [F. farce, from L. farsus (also sometimes
farctus), p. p. pf farcire. See {Farce}, v. t.]
1. (Cookery) Stuffing, or mixture of viands, like that used
on dressing a fowl; forcemeat.

2. A low style of comedy; a dramatic composition marked by
low humor, generally written with little regard to
regularity or method, and abounding with ludicrous
incidents and expressions.

Farce is that in poetry which ``grotesque'' is in a
picture: the persons and action of a farce are all
unnatural, and the manners false. --Dryden.

3. Ridiculous or empty show; as, a mere farce. ``The farce of
state.'' --Pope.

Farce \Farce\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Farced}, p. pr. & vb. n.
{Farcing}.] [F. Farcir, L. farcire; akin to Gr. ???????? to
fence in, stop up. Cf. {Force} to stuff, {Diaphragm},
{Frequent}, {Farcy}, {Farse}.]
1. To stuff with forcemeat; hence, to fill with mingled
ingredients; to fill full; to stuff. [Obs.]

The first principles of religion should not be
farced with school points and private tenets. --Bp.
Sanderson.

His tippet was aye farsed full of knives. --Chaucer.

2. To render fat. [Obs.]

If thou wouldst farce thy lean ribs. --B. Jonson.

3. To swell out; to render pompous. [Obs.]

Farcing his letter with fustian. --Sandys.

But American observers said that the opposition candidate, Guillermo Endara, actually won and the vote fraud that was taking place was all too obvious, thus causing Noriega to call off the farce.
They've already been tried, which is another farce," says Jackie Donnelly, spokesman for the outlawed IRA's legal political wing, Sinn Fein.
"This isn't going to be a trial, it's going to be a farce," said her lawyer, Gerald Feffer.
Sly satire, hints of farce - and a brave assault on dogma and bigotry.
Too often we see the real, rounded characters of Don Pasquale and L'elisir busied and bustled into farce.
This obvious conclusion didn't occur to me until after I saw "Big Business," the latest breezy farce from Disney's Touchstone Pictures.
Williams received his award before the curtain went up on the Hasty Pudding's 141st annual musical farce, a spoof on Prohibition called "Whiskey Business."
'Without internal audit, the audit committee is a bit of a farce,' he says.
"What they have done today is a farce, and farces are performed by humbugs," Godoy said after the vote, which he boycotted.
Just as an actor playing a drunk must do everything possible to strive for sobriety, so good farce should tether itself to seriousness.
It is the most pleasantly amusing show in London. You can also rise to farce.
The guerrilla groups called the elections a farce.
The singers must work to bring it alive. In the title-role, Christopher Robson came close to turning tragedy into farce.
This is the performance of a man who knows that farce is a very high art.
"The call for `no violence,' which has marked the street revolution from the start, becomes a farce when emotions break through the bounds of reason." Opposition leaders issued appeals for calm and urged demonstrators to avoid further violence.
'Ukrainian sovereignty would be a farce if 20m believers were subordinate to Moscow. 'But Patriarch Alexei (of Moscow) would not have it.
The comedian Lenny Henry does some amusing impersonations as he carries out this mild farce.
'The way the process is being conducted shows how privatisation of the industry has become a farce.' The tender documents for the first four pits have recently been sent to prospective buyers.
"With farce you really have to maintain the same performance every night," the actress says. "You can't change, because it will affect what other people do on stage.
"I'm looking forward to a true free market here," he said. "The central economy was a farce.
"There's nothing safe in `Rumors,"' he said. "It's a farce _ a style of comedy I've never written before.
Black activists shrug off the elections as a farce.
"This is intended to be instructive to him," Fender said. "I don't want this to become a farce.
"If you're going to write a pure, for want of a better word, farce, I think it does need to have tragedy at its core." "Run for Your Wife" will be one of several farces on Broadway this season.
"But this type of action shows that it's all a farce," said Lee Yi, publisher of The Nineties, an influential Chinese-language magazine. "We have a choice: Either report the news or become Beijing's mouthpiece.
Occasionally the gloom is disguised as farce, but the themes are the same _ Siberian prisons, Stalinist oppression, heroic resistance, bureaucratic hypocrisy and the guilt of torturers.
The Moscow Chamber Opera play it like a black farce; Pokrovsky's production leaves the whole cast on stage sitting on benches to watch the unlikely events unfold, turns it into a communal ritual.
This sets the scene for rich farce, since it leaves the controllers with no way of knowing which train is supposed to go in which direction.
'We are now once again into the Hebridean farce situation,' Mr Graham said.
'It was just a farce,' he said. The day was considerably harder for Kiichiro Ito, the president of Tokai Bank, which lost money last year through an illegal loans scheme in which renegade managers forged certificates of deposit.

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