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单词 comedy
释义
comedycom‧e‧dy /ˈkɒmədi $ ˈkɑː-/ ●●● W3 noun (plural comedies) Word Origin
WORD ORIGINcomedy
Origin:
1300-1400 French comédie, from Latin, from Greek komoidia, from komos ‘having fun, partying’ + aeidein ‘to sing’
Examples
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
  • 'One Fine Day' was a romantic comedy with George Clooney and Michelle Pfeiffer.
  • a comedy show on Channel 4
  • It was a brilliant play - full of drama, and both sadness and comedy.
  • Much of the comedy in Pratchett's books comes from the clever way he plays around with words and ideas.
  • The movie's a black comedy about a pair of junkie musicians who are trying to kick the drug habit.
  • The movie swings from broad comedy to moving drama in a single scene.
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
  • Bill started acting in musical comedy.
  • But the comedy is smart and funny, and Michael Douglas and Annette Bening are charming.
  • In general, the violations of the unities in sentimental comedy are slight.
  • So is the prejudice against mixing tragedy and comedy.
  • The aggressive style of mainland cabaret comedy is only now reaching Northern Ireland.
  • The tribute includes a 1960s episode of Coronation Street and the comedy Nearest and Dearest.
  • This one, obviously, is not a comedy.
Thesaurus
THESAURUS
making you laugh: · John told me a really funny joke.· She’s very talented and funny.
especially written funny and enjoyable. Amusing is more formal than funny. It is often used when something is a little funny and makes you smile, rather than laugh: · an amusing anecdote· He found the whole incident rather amusing.
intended to be funny – used about stories, films, articles etc that have situations that are a little funny: · humorous stories· The movie is meant to be humorous.
using words in a funny and clever way: · witty remarks· How witty!
(also hysterical informal) extremely funny: · The children thought it was hilarious.· The movie has some hilarious scenes.· It was hysterical! You should have seen his face!
funny in a strange or silly way – often used when something is not intended to be funny: · It was quite comical watching him trying to dance.· her own comical attempts at painting
[only before noun] a comic film, play, novel etc is intended to be funny: · a comic drama
done for amusement or enjoyment, and not intended to be serious: · The programme is a light-hearted look at recent political events.
noun [countable] a film, play, or television programme that is intended to be funny: · a comedy by Shakespeare· She has appeared in several television comedies.· a new comedy series on Channel 4
especially British English, movie especially American English a series of images that tell a story and are shown in a cinema or on television: · What’s your favourite movie?· It won the award for best foreign film.· a made-for-TV movie
formal (also picture) a film – used especially by people who make films or by critics: · a major Hollywood motion picture· Tell us about your latest picture.
informal a very successful film: · Steven Spielberg’s latest Hollywood blockbuster
informal a film – a very informal use: · an action flick
a film that gives detailed information and facts about a particular subject: · a documentary on the rain forest
a film made to be shown in cinemas: · The book was later made into a full-length feature film starring Sean Penn.
a film intended to make people laugh: · Monroe appeared in a number of comedies.
(also romcom British English informal) a film about two people who are in love, which is intended to make the people who watch it feel happy: · ‘Notting Hill’ is a romantic comedy starring Julia Roberts and Hugh Grant.
an exciting film, especially about murder or serious crimes: · ‘The Birds’ is a classic Hitchcock thriller.
a film that shows strong feelings of fear or evil and whose characters are often immoral, or these films in general: · ‘The Big Sleep’ is a classic Hollywood film noir.
a film that has lots of fighting, explosions etc: · Stallone’s latest action movie
a frightening film about ghosts, murders etc: · She loves watching old horror movies.
a film with cowboys in it: · John Wayne is famous for making westerns.
(also sci-fi film/movie informal) a film about imaginary events in the future or in outer space: · ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’ is probably the most famous sci-fi movie ever made.
a film about violent criminals
an old film without any sound: · The 1920s were the golden age of silent movies.
a film made by a small film company
a film with characters that are drawn or made using a computer: · One of his first animated films was ‘Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs’.
a type of Japanese animated film, which often has a science fiction story: · Miyazaki’s anime film ‘Spirited Away’ became an international success.· an anime character
the use of computers to create characters and images in a film: · The film uses CGI.· Disney’s latest CGI movie
a short film, usually shown before a longer movie in the cinema: · an animated short
a series of short scenes from a film or programme, shown in order to advertise it in a cinema, on television etc: · We had to sit through all the trailers.
Longman Language Activatortypes of film
a film that is intended to make you feel frightened, for example one in which people get attacked by strange creatures, or in which dead people come to life
informal a film that is intended to make you feel frightened, in which people are suddenly violently attacked and killed
a film that is intended to make you laugh and usually has a happy ending
a film about life in the future, often with people or creatures who live in other parts of the universe
a film that tells an exciting story about murder or crime
a film about cowboys and life in the 19th century in the American West
a film about people fighting a war
a film that has a lot of exciting events in it, for example people fighting or chasing each other in cars
a film about people who are on a long journey in a car, and the adventures they have while they are travelling
a film that is intended to make you laugh, about two people who meet and have a romantic relationship
a film made using photographs of models or drawings, which are put together to look as if they are moving
a long film in which a lot of things happen, for example one about a period in history or the whole of someone's life
the quality in someone or something that makes them funny
British humor American the quality or thing in a situation, book, remark etc that makes it funny: · Everyone laughed except Dad, who obviously didn't appreciate the humour of the situation.· The most popular children's books are ones that have plenty of humor in them.black humour (=about things such as death and violence): · Tom Lehrer's black humor offended some people, who found jokes about such subjects as nuclear war unacceptable.
the quality in a book, film, television programme etc that is intended to entertain people and make them laugh: · It was a brilliant play - full of drama, and both sadness and comedy.· Much of the comedy in Pratchett's books comes from the clever way he plays around with words and ideas.
the ability to use words and express ideas in a clever and amusing way, especially when it is shown in conversation or writing: · He seemed to have everything you could want in a man -- intelligence, wit, good looks and charm.· The wit and irony of the original novel has been lost in the film version.
a funny film, play etc
a film, play, TV programme etc that is intended to entertain people and make them laugh: · 'One Fine Day' was a romantic comedy with George Clooney and Michelle Pfeiffer.comedy programme/series/show: · a comedy show on Channel 4black comedy (=one that is funny about things such as death): · The movie's a black comedy about a pair of junkie musicians who are trying to kick the drug habit.
intended to entertain people and make them laugh: · Streep provided one of the best comic performances of her career.comic writer/actor/performer etc (=one who writes or performs things that make you laugh): · Like all comic writers, Shaw was fascinated by the gap between appearance and reality.comic verse/song (=that entertains you and makes you laugh): · Then Gertie got up on the stage and delighted us all by singing a comic song.comic relief (=something funny in a serious story): · In Shakespeare's Henry IV, the character of Falstaff provides us with a little comic relief.
WORD SETS
agent, nounbill, nounblack comedy, nouncasting, nouncomedy, nouncommentator, nouncostume drama, noundialogue, noundirect, verbdirector, noundocudrama, noundocumentary, noundocumentary, adjectivedramatize, verbdub, verbedit, verbeditor, nounedutainment, nounfilm, verbFX, grip, nounlead, nounmegastar, nounmerchandising, nounmix, verbmixer, nounmultimedia, adjectivenarration, nounorgan, nounpan, verbpanel, nounpanellist, nounpap, nounpersonality, nounpublicity, nounraconteur, nounrecast, verbrehearsal, nounrehearse, verbreissue, verbreprise, nounrerun, verbscript, nounshow business, nounsketch, nounsound, nounsound effects, nounspecial effect, nounstar, verbstarlet, nounstory, nounsubplot, nounsuperstar, nounthriller, nounweepy, noun
Collocations
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY Meaning 1comedy + NOUN
(=a regular TV programme about the same characters)· I used to like the comedy series 'Friends’.
(=a performance)· She has her own comedy show on TV.
· He is best known as a comedy writer for radio and television.
· He was voted the top TV comedy actor.
(=a very famous comedy actor or actress)· The main role in the film is played by comedy star Whoopi Goldberg.
· They were the most successful comedy films of all time.
(=the jokes that form a comedy show)· He always has a brilliant comedy routine.
(=two people who perform together regularly)· the legendary comedy duo Laurel and Hardy
(=all the people, places etc involved in providing comedy)· She became a major star on the international comedy circuit.
ADJECTIVES/NOUN + comedy
(=performances with one person telling jokes alone)· He developed a stand-up comedy act.
(=in which the performers do silly things like falling over, getting dirty etc)· The tradition of slapstick comedy goes back to the early days of cinema.
(=intelligent and with very funny conversations and situations)· The director wanted actors who could play high comedy.
(=about very silly situations etc)· He’s a popular actor who excels at low comedy.
(=about subjects that are not very serious)· He is clearly talented at light comedy.
(=about subjects that are usually sad or serious, especially death)· The plot contains plenty of black comedy.
(=that is different from traditional types of comedy)· He’s making a name for himself on the alternative comedy scene.
 Meaning 2adjectives
· 'Four weddings and a Funeral' is a well-known romantic comedy.
(=about serious subjects, especially death)· There are several murders in this black comedy set in Florida.
(=with music and singing)· As far as musical comedies go, this is one of the most successful.
(=about emotions such as love and sadness)· The film is one of those tearful sentimental comedies.
(=a regular comedy TV programme about the same characters)· She starred in a situation comedy about a family with teenage kids, that ran for ten years.
· The actor played the character Baldrick in the TV comedy 'Blackadder'.
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
· Jason was voted top TV comedy actor.
(=about funny/very sad events)· Martin Clunes is to star in a new comedy drama.
(=plays written during this time in England)
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE
· The naughty postcard camp king of alternative comedy.
· And then there is black comedy.· Even black comedies should be taken seriously by their makers.· I thought it was a campy black comedy.· This haunting black comedy touches and menaces in equal parts.· Alternatively the violation can be inverted; like a black comedy, or the assertion of a stark revenge or retribution.· This was on-the-edge black comedy that dispelled any vestige of condescension that might have been felt towards the performers.
· After all, the best comedy has a serious intent, and Forsyth clearly wants to evoke more than just laughter.· The way to judge a good comedy is by how long it will last and have people talk about it.· His other real interests are, he concludes, Guinness and good comedy.· Lane might just be the best comedy and musical man working on Broadway.· And if you want the best stand-up comedy available for a dollar, try a speaker meeting on skid row.
· The West End then beckoned, and he appeared as a solid juvenile in a sequence of light comedies.· After the war Marius Steen continued to put on shows and gradually he forsook revue for musicals and light comedies.· Clooney will show that he can cut it as the leading man of a light comedy.
· Captain McArthur was a musical comedy aficionado, and not pleased when Mrs Kingswood spoke critically of the form.· The Black Hills Playhouse presents musical, comedy and dramatic productions throughout the summer.· My dream is to direct a musical comedy one day.· Bill started acting in musical comedy.· As some one who likes musical comedies to be comedies, the frivolity of this piece proved irresistible.· The daughter of a famous musical comedy actress would scarcely fit in.
· I looked at the paper, and realised that a new comedy show was about to start on Channel 4.· This mutual stretching of personas is what works best in the new romantic comedy about a couple of blue-collar thieves.· She's talking about her new role in comedy film, Housesitter, opposite funnyman Steve Martin.· On that particular day, the feature show was Cocoanuts, the new Marx Brothers comedy set in Florida.· In 1999, I asked readers to submit ideas for new comedies.· Between numbers by the unflappable Ramblers, the stars are birthing new comedy duets.· A new comedy wave, I suppose, is waiting in the wings.
· He is so funny with his physical comedy.
· Even popular television war comedies were taken off the air, for fear of jarring too awkwardly with endless hours of Gulf coverage.
· There will be fewer big action pictures and more romantic comedies.· Which she did in a scene familiar from countless romantic comedies: She throws him out, followed by his suitcase.· Once, coming back from New York, we were all watching a romantic comedy.· This surprisingly funny, reverse-Cyrano lark is witty, wise and the most romantic comedy so far this year.· They want to make screwball romantic comedies but they wind up producing sitcoms that look lost without a laugh track.· It is a romantic comedy, and I play a really bad person.· A romantic comedy, with Steve Guttenberg as a man with a new face and Shelley Long as his novelist sister.
· As Big showed, Penny Marshall's strength is sentimental comedy.· These moral essays advanced other theories in harmony with sentimental comedy.· The same posturing and gesturing, typical of sentimental comedy, is found in La conjuracion de Venecia.· If Nivelle de la Chaussee was the great playwright of sentimental comedy, then Denise Diderot was the great theorist.· In its subordination of character to plot, sentimental comedy moves in the direction of Romantic drama.· Several of these sentimental comedies were imitations of El delincuente honrado.· Perhaps the most innovative aspect of the sentimental comedy is that it represented a new form of tragi-comedy.· Their use many centuries later in sentimental comedy or bourgeois tragedy was purely artificial.
· It was an almost slapstick comedy in which Stalin and his cultural henchman Zhdanov confront Prokofiev and Shostakovich.· He then added his own slapstick comedy, each night diving head first through a serving hatch and generally being thrown around.
NOUN
· His replacement was comedy actor Derek Nimmo.· Both videos are situations comedies made by a top television light entertainment director and an experienced cast of comedy actors.· The video has been made using a highly-experienced cast of comedy actors and a top television light entertainment director.
· Pop corn and carrot cake with a comedy film bonanza.· The stimulus material was a short silent comedy film made by Mack Sennet around 1925.· They were the most successful comedy films of all time.· She's talking about her new role in comedy film, Housesitter, opposite funnyman Steve Martin.· Some of the more interesting comedy films were made outside these generic contexts.
· Now he could concentrate on his first television situation comedy series.· You might start a personal channel that gathers all new information about the comedy series for you.· She lost best actress in a comedy series to Cybill Shepherd.! folo!
· I looked at the paper, and realised that a new comedy show was about to start on Channel 4.· I think we tried to use it once, and it was like a comedy show, it was crazy.
· Both videos are sparkling situation comedies written especially for adult and young adult learners.· I thought I wanted to write a situation comedy with a woman in the lead.· Drama and situation comedy are likely to be next.· Both videos are situations comedies made by a top television light entertainment director and an experienced cast of comedy actors.· Let's face it, there have already been plenty of situation comedies in this situation before.· Now he could concentrate on his first television situation comedy series.· I might change my mind about becoming a vet and try writing situation comedy for television.
· She played Mrs Thatcher in Anyone for Denis and in a television comedy.· Or take the scene in a New York police station as portrayed in a television comedy.· And television comedy will never be the same again.· Producer Michael Mills saw the opportunity to team up a new writer with an actor new to television comedy.· The catchphrase, after all, is a fixture in an otherwise protean world of television comedy.
VERB
· My dream is to direct a musical comedy one day.
· Sylvester Stallone is playing comedy again.· We were all playing roles in a comedy. l tried to prove to Sonya that withholding herself from me was hypocritical.· Now they play music videos and comedy clips.
· I thought I wanted to write a situation comedy with a woman in the lead.· Goldman says he can't write comedy, by the way.· I was writing a comedy with sinister undertones about the villa renters and expats of Chiantishire.
1[uncountable] entertainment that is intended to make people laughcomedy writer/series/show/actor etc a career in stand-up comedy (=telling jokes in front of people as a job)► see thesaurus at funny2[countable] a play, film, or television programme that is intended to make people laugh:  a highly successful TV comedy► see thesaurus at movie3[uncountable] the quality in something such as a book or play that makes people laugh SYN  humour → tragedy:  Can’t you see the comedy of the situation? → black comedy, situation comedyCOLLOCATIONS– Meaning 1comedy + NOUNa comedy series (=a regular TV programme about the same characters)· I used to like the comedy series 'Friends’.a comedy show (=a performance)· She has her own comedy show on TV.a comedy writer· He is best known as a comedy writer for radio and television.a comedy actor/actress· He was voted the top TV comedy actor.a comedy star (=a very famous comedy actor or actress)· The main role in the film is played by comedy star Whoopi Goldberg.a comedy film· They were the most successful comedy films of all time.a comedy routine (=the jokes that form a comedy show)· He always has a brilliant comedy routine.a comedy duo (=two people who perform together regularly)· the legendary comedy duo Laurel and Hardythe comedy circuit/scene (=all the people, places etc involved in providing comedy)· She became a major star on the international comedy circuit.ADJECTIVES/NOUN + comedystand-up comedy (=performances with one person telling jokes alone)· He developed a stand-up comedy act.slapstick comedy (=in which the performers do silly things like falling over, getting dirty etc)· The tradition of slapstick comedy goes back to the early days of cinema.high comedy (=intelligent and with very funny conversations and situations)· The director wanted actors who could play high comedy.low comedy (=about very silly situations etc)· He’s a popular actor who excels at low comedy.light comedy (=about subjects that are not very serious)· He is clearly talented at light comedy.black/dark comedy (=about subjects that are usually sad or serious, especially death)· The plot contains plenty of black comedy.alternative comedy (=that is different from traditional types of comedy)· He’s making a name for himself on the alternative comedy scene.COLLOCATIONS– Meaning 2adjectivesa romantic comedy· 'Four weddings and a Funeral' is a well-known romantic comedy.a black comedy (=about serious subjects, especially death)· There are several murders in this black comedy set in Florida.a musical comedy (=with music and singing)· As far as musical comedies go, this is one of the most successful.a sentimental comedy (=about emotions such as love and sadness)· The film is one of those tearful sentimental comedies.a situation comedy (=a regular comedy TV programme about the same characters)· She starred in a situation comedy about a family with teenage kids, that ran for ten years.a TV comedy· The actor played the character Baldrick in the TV comedy 'Blackadder'.
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