comedian
noun /kəˈmiːdiən/
/kəˈmiːdiən/
- a person whose job is to make people laugh by telling jokes or funny stories
(讲笑话或趣事的)滑稽演员 - He started out as a stand-up comedian in Liverpool.
他在利物浦出道时是一个单口喜剧演员。
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- He started out as a stand-up comedian in Liverpool.
- (often ironic) a person who is funny or thinks they are funny
(讲笑话或趣事的)滑稽演员 - The speaker was a bit of a comedian, so it was an amusing session.
演讲者有点像喜剧演员,所以这是一场有趣的会议。
- The speaker was a bit of a comedian, so it was an amusing session.
词源late 16th cent. (denoting a comic playwright): from French comédien, from Old French comedie, via Latin from Greek kōmōidia, from kōmōidos ‘comic poet’, from kōmos ‘revel’ + aoidos ‘singer’. The sense ‘entertainer’ dates from the late 19th cent.