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单词 antics
释义
antics
noun[plural]
uk
/ˈæn.tɪks/us
/ˈæn.t̬ɪks/
funny,silly, orstrangebehaviour:
古怪而可笑的举动；噱头
But therockstar, whosestageantics used toincludesmashingguitars, isolderandwisernow.这个摇滚歌星以前常耍诸如摔碎吉他之类的噱头，但是随着年龄增长，他现在变得理性多了。
Thecrowdswereonceagainentertainedby the number-onetennisplayer's antics on and off thecourt.这位头号网球运动员在场上场下做的滑稽动作再次把观众逗得开怀不已。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Stupid and silly behaviour
  • buffoonery
  • dottiness
  • dumbness
  • fatuousness
  • folly
  • frivolousness
  • fruit loopery
  • game
  • idiocy
  • imprudence
  • ludicrousness
  • madness
  • mindlessness
  • oafishness
  • obtuseness
  • puerility
  • screwball
  • the games (that) people playidiom
  • tomfoolery
  • vacuousness
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(Definition ofanticsfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

antics| American Dictionary

antics
plural noun
us
/ˈæn·tɪks/
amusing,silly, orstrangebehavior:
The antics of theclownsamusedthechildren.
(Definition ofanticsfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofantics

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But the immaterial ponderings and playfulanticsof the long dead were not all the mediums channeled.
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Our theory specifies a unique set of properties for processes involving relations of differentantics.
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And he seemed to be thoroughly enjoying himself as he watched some of the humorousanticsof the possessed mediums.
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They are ideal critics of theanticsof self-consciously ' authentic' performers.
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Possession cases were unstable and unpredictable, and theanticsof adolescent demoniacs had a disturbing tendency to invert and overturn the established age, gender, and social hierarchy.
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Such moral advice is said to be cleverly inserted into the dialogue even of 'traditional' stories, and is enlivened with jokes and comicantics.
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One of the comicanticsthat threads its way through the novel, for example, is the narrator's escalating antipathy towards the botanist, whom he finds mentally lax, romantic, and mawkish.
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Moving beyond graphical programming languages to the command-lineanticsof interpreted text-based programming languages, the abstract potential of the system, along with its difficulty of use, continues to grow.
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Buckingham'santicsmay have sunk the already flimsy ship.
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Such are theanticsthat extreme disquiet has been expressed by parents and governors alike.
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He told us about theanticsthat he had to perform —for example, climbing drainpipes—in order to get the respect of those children.
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Such urchinanticshave no appeal in this debate.
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Our grandfathers and even our fathers would not recognise us in the sort ofanticsin which we have been engaged tonight.
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Perhaps the reputation that has been created is because of theanticsof a few, rather than the good work of many.
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Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
The industry is not helped by theanticsof the coal mining dispute.
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