antics• Her shoulder was stinging, but Maria couldn't help laughing at his effervescentantics.• She glanced around with an innocentexpression on her face, but all eyes were on the Doctor's antics.• Certainly, in comparison to Errol Flynn's, Finch's antics were mild.• Three skydivers jumped off a skyscraper, but most skydivers disapprove of such antics.• Classical music elders may turn up their noses, but so far, the antics are working.• The Queen is said to disapprove of the antics of some of the younger members of the Royal Family.• The Bloomsbury Group is only one of dozens of such groups, albeit one whose antics have been chronicled at numbinglength.
Originantics
(1500-1600)antic“strange”((16-19 centuries)), from Italianantico“ancient”, from Latinantiquus; → ANTIQUE1
ADJECTIVE | VERB + ANTICSADJECTIVE➤amusing, crazy, playful可笑的滑稽動作;荒唐愚蠢的舉動;鬧着玩兒的滑稽動作▸➤wacky, zany (bothinformal, especially NAmE) 瘋癲的/古怪的滑稽動作➤childish幼稚的滑稽舉動VERB + ANTICS➤get up to, perform幹愚蠢的事;做古怪的事◇The youngsters got up to all sorts of amusing antics.這些年輕人做出各種各樣可笑的蠢事。◇a comic who performs wacky antics on his TV show在電視節目中做出瘋瘋癲癲的滑稽動作的喜劇演員➤be amused by, enjoy, laugh at, smile at被滑稽的動作逗樂;欣賞滑稽的動作;因滑稽的動作而大笑;因動作滑稽而露出笑容◇She was laughing at his antics.他的滑稽動作逗得她哈哈大笑。