Remember, Marvin, no funny business while we’re out.
记住,马文,我们不在的时候别胡闹。
4a funny lookif you give someone a funny look, you look at them in a way that shows you think they are behaving strangely 古怪的目光
I hunkered down, ignoring the funny looks from passers-by.
我蹲下身,不去管路人投来的古怪目光。
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a funny look• I thought, in my anxious state, that the orderly gave me a funny look as he left me there.• Robbie gave her a funny look, as though she were a little peculiar for jumping into his illogicalfragment of thought.• Billie had a funny look on her face.
7go funnyinformalBROKEN if a machine, piece of equipment etc goes funny, it stops working properly 出毛病,出故障
I just turned it on and the screen went all funny.
我刚开机,屏幕就出问题了。
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go funny• Then came the road where her kneeswent funny.• My eyes go funny after a bit, so I look at summat else.• I tend to sit there going funnycolours.• And his eyes went funny just as he was about to change personalities.
8very funny!FUNNY spoken used when someone is laughing at you or playing a trick and you do not think it is amusing 〔反话〕真滑稽!一点也不好笑!
Very funny! Who’s hidden my car keys?
有什么好笑的!谁藏了我的汽车钥匙?
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very funny!• Oh, that's very funny. I know you're in there.• Very funny! Who hid my carkeys?
9I’m not being funny (but)British EnglishBrE spoken used when you are serious or do not want to offend someone 我不是想开玩笑(但…)
I’m not being funny, but we haven’t got much time.
我不是在开玩笑,我们时间不多了。
10funny little somethingSTRANGEused to describe something you like because it is small, unusual, or interesting 又小又怪的某物
The town centre is crammed with funny little shops.
镇中心挤满了千奇百怪的小店。
his funny little grin
他微微咧嘴的怪笑
11funny peculiar or funny ha-ha?British EnglishBrE, funny weird/strange or funny ha-ha? American EnglishSTRANGEFUNNY used when someone has described something as funny and you want to know whether they mean it is strange or amusing 是奇怪还是有趣?
‘Tim’s a funny guy.’ ‘Funny weird or funny ha-ha?’
“蒂姆是个奇人。”“是奇怪还是有趣?”
THESAURUS
funny making you laugh 好笑的
John told me a really funny joke.
约翰给我讲了一个很有趣的笑话。
She’s very talented and funny.
她才华横溢,也很风趣。
amusing especially writtenfunny 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 有趣的〔较funny正式,指某事物有点滑稽、让人发笑,但不是大笑〕
an amusing anecdote
趣闻
He found the whole incident rather amusing.
他发现整件事相当有趣。
humorousintended to be funny – used about stories, films, articles etc that have situations that are a little funny 〔故事、影片、文章等〕幽默的
The programme is a light-hearted look at recent political events.
这个节目戏说近期政治事件。
comedy noun [countableC] a film, play, or televisionprogramme that is intended to be funny 喜剧
a comedy by Shakespeare
莎士比亚的一部喜剧
nShe has appeared in several television comedies.
na new comedy series on Channel 4
5FREQUENCY 使用频率
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funny• You'll like Alan - he's really funny.• Did you like 'Notting Hill'? I thought it was hilariously funny.• The goat was chasingMarkround and round the field - it was so funny.• This penetratingstudy of a drunken drop-out, yearning for oblivion, is both ridiculously funny and painfully sad.• Such incidents were not always so funny at the time, though, in retrospect we always had a good laugh.• A funnygirl, he said, and the loveliestteeth he'd ever seen on anybody.• There's something funny going on here.• "Your keys aren't here." "That's funny - I'm sure I left them on the table."• You look really funny in that hat.• The funniest one was the horse.• You couldn't make up stuff that was funnier, or sadder.• I always thought that was a funny place to have a house.• There's a funnysmell coming from Pete's room.• It was the funniest story I'd ever heard.• Come on, sit on my lap and I'll tell you a funny story.• It's funny that he managed to hit the ball because he never hits it in practice.• He can be prettyfunny when he's had a few drinks.
funny story/joke/film etc• Both laughed delightedly, as if I had cracked some very funny joke.• He told some quite funny stories.• Now she has illustrated a second, equally funny story about the time the maiden Belinda is captured by a wickedknight.• I had no doubts about his musicianship, his talent or his ability to tell a funny story funnily.• Tonk and his Friends Pupils will love this funny story of a young robot called Tonk.• He had told a funny story that had made her laugh.• He'd give us funny stories - the Colonel coming in the frontdoor while Luke left through the back.• Perhaps Old Abe has some funny story to tell appropriate to the occasion.
funny feeling• But there was some funny feeling.• I've got a funny feeling he's not going to roll over for me.• You notice a funny feeling in your stomach, in fact it feels a little queasy.• But suddenly, that funny feeling in your stomach is stronger, and you feel like you will have to burp.• I had a funny feeling it was the same for him - disgusting.• I get the funniest feeling that the sun is turned up brighter than before on the three of them.• It was a funny feeling to meet some one like that and feel that way.
funny business• Now, Riley, if you take my advice you could become something big in the funny business.• So the bargaining takes on a nouveau comic tone, and we all become roleplayers in the funny business.• It's a funny business, comedy.• I don't want any funny business going on while I'm gone.
feel funny• Nicole says her stomach feels funny.• He can't see me of course but it makes me feel funny.• It feels funny after my other hat.• I felt a bit funny and dizzy, and then the next thing I knew I was lying on the floor.• I told Dad I felt funny but he didn't take much notice.• I felt funny enough just being there.• Making us feel funny for doing the right thing.• Then it started to feel funny, just the two of us there and nobody talking.• It made me feel funny looking at that hair, and I didn't like it.• Indigestion made you feel funny things.
went ... funny• Then came the road where her kneeswent funny.• And his eyes went funny just as he was about to change personalities.