clown
noun /klaʊn/
/klaʊn/
- an entertainer who wears funny clothes and a large red nose and does silly things to make people laugh
丑角；小丑 - (figurative) Robert was always the class clown (= he did silly things to make the other students laugh).
那时候罗伯特总是班里的活宝。
- (figurative) Robert was always the class clown (= he did silly things to make the other students laugh).
- (informal, disapproving) a person that you think is bad because they act in a stupid way
蠢货；笨蛋 - What do those clowns in the government think they are doing?
政府里的那些蠢货自以为他们在做什么呢？
- What do those clowns in the government think they are doing?
词源mid 16th cent. relating to an unsophisticated country person: perhaps of Low German origin.