请输入您要查询的英文单词:

 

单词 high comedy
释义

> as lemmas

high comedy
high comedy n. comedy of a sophisticated or intellectual nature (cf. low comedy n. 1); (also) something which is very funny.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > pleasure > laughter > causing laughter > [noun] > one who or that which is comical
comedy1535
toy1542
jest1602
joke1670
comic1674
high comedy1707
humorous1753
comicality1796
funny1852
funniosity1871
hot sketch1917
pisser1918
riot1919
panic1921
cocasserie1934
yell1938
mess1952
crack-up1961
society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > [noun] > comedy > specific
low comedy1608
farce1676
light comedy1698
high comedy1707
comedy of manners1822
comedietta1823
Adelphi screamer1830
commedia dell'arte1877
musical comedy1903
comédie noire1958
alternative comedy1980
1707 P. A. Motteux Farewel Folly Prol. A farce! We shall be mawl'd—At least, I fear it. After high Comedy who'll ever bear it? 'Tis your Oat Ale, or Small Beer, after Claret.
1761 tr. C. Batteux Course Belles Lettres II. 364 We are not talking of low comedy or high comedy, but of the comic only.
1805 Monthly Mirror Feb. 135 Mr. Pritchard, in high comedy, is an excellent actor.
1895 G. B. Shaw in Sat. Rev. 27 Apr. 549/2 After the exasperatingly bad acting one constantly sees at the theatres where high comedy and ‘drama’ prevail, it is a relief to see even simple work creditably done.
1963 Observer 12 May 28/3 Miss Murdoch is one of the sharpest writers of high comedy at present active in the theatre.
1990 Artist's & Illustrator's Mag. May (Corr.) 4/3 Such phrases as ‘the objectivism of the self-expressionistic device’ and the ‘significance of total experience’ are high comedy indeed!
2011 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 14 Nov. 30 Dame Patricia (as I hereby dub her) has triumphed in Shakespeare at Stratford, in high comedy in the West End, and in Broadway musicals and operetta.
extracted from highadj.n.2
<
as lemmas
随便看

 

英语词典包含1132095条英英释义在线翻译词条,基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法,是英语学习的有利工具。

 

Copyright © 2004-2022 Newdu.com All Rights Reserved
更新时间:2025/3/4 8:18:56