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be a farce
farce 是可数名词，常以单数形式出现，表示某个事件或过程荒谬得令人难以置信。
The election was a complete farce.
这次选举完全是一场闹剧。
闹剧；滑稽剧
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闹剧；滑稽剧
farce
The election was a complete farce.
这次选举完全是一场闹剧。
一种以荒诞离奇、不拘常规或手法为特点的幽默风格。
A style of humor marked by broad improbabilities with little regard to regularity or method.
以夸张讽刺和不可能情境为特点的喜剧
a comedy characterized by broad satire and improbable situations
以这种幽默风格为特色的电影或戏剧。
A motion picture or play featuring this style of humor.
由生鸡肉、蘑菇、开心果、松露、洋葱、欧芹和大量黄油混合并用鸡蛋调和的馅料
mixture of ground raw chicken and mushrooms with pistachios and truffles and onions and parsley and lots of butter and bound with eggs
The director's new comedy is a farce full of mistaken identities and ridiculous situations.
这位导演的新喜剧是一部充满身份错认和荒谬情节的闹剧。
We studied French farces in our theater history class, laughing at their exaggerated plots.
我们在戏剧史课上研究了法国闹剧，为它们夸张的情节而发笑。
The play began as a witty satire, but it quickly turned into a crude farce.
这出戏起初是机智的讽刺剧，但很快就变成了一部粗俗的闹剧。
farce 是可数名词，常以单数形式出现，表示某个事件或过程荒谬得令人难以置信。
The election was a complete farce.
这次选举完全是一场闹剧。
这个结构表示原本严肃的事情变得荒唐失控。
The trial quickly descended into farce when the witness burst out laughing.
证人大笑起来时，这场审判很快就变成了一场闹剧。
这里的 farce 指舞台或影视作品中的闹剧、滑稽剧。
They wrote a farce about a prince who keeps losing his shoes.
他们写了一出关于一个老是丢鞋的王子的滑稽剧。
make a farce of sth 表示人为因素或外部情况使某事物失去严肃性，显得荒谬可笑。
The new rules made a farce of the competition.
新规则让这场比赛变成了一场闹剧。
Not this
The meeting was complete farce.
Use this
The meeting was a complete farce.
farce 是可数名词，单数可数名词前需要不定冠词 a；中文没有冠词，所以容易漏掉，加上 a 才符合英语语法。
Not this
His speech was farce.
Use this
His speech was farcical.
这里需要形容词作表语描述演讲的性质，farce 是名词，不能直接放在 be 动词后修饰主语；应改用形容词 farcical（滑稽的、闹剧式的）。
Focus on the distinctions below. Other candidates are kept compact until a reliable usage note is available.
沦为闹剧
The trial descended into farce when the key witness started shouting.
当关键证人开始大喊大叫时，审判沦为一场闹剧。
政治闹剧
The election was dismissed as a political farce.
这场选举被视为一场政治闹剧。
彻头彻尾的闹剧
The whole procedure was an utter farce from start to finish.
整个过程从头到尾就是一场彻头彻尾的闹剧。
喜剧闹剧
The play is a comic farce about mistaken identities.
这出戏是一部关于身份错认的喜剧闹剧。
近乎闹剧
The meeting was bordering on farce, with everyone talking at once.
会议近乎闹剧，所有人同时说话。
把……弄得一团糟；使……成为笑柄
The referee made a farce of the final by giving three penalties in the first ten minutes.
裁判在开场十分钟内判了三个点球，把决赛搞得一团糟。
沦为闹剧
What started as a serious debate soon descended into farce.
原本严肃的辩论很快就沦为一场闹剧。
完全是一场闹剧
The election was a total farce.
这次选举完全是一场闹剧。
历史会重演，先是悲剧，后是闹剧。
The trial was a complete farce, with the verdict decided long before it began.
这场审判完全是一场闹剧，判决早在开始之前就已定下。
Use farce naturally, then get feedback on meaning, tone, grammar, and phrasing.
Revisit a common error or keep this word in your review list.
farce 可拆成 far（远）+ce，闹剧剧情荒诞、离现实很远，令人哭笑不得。
语域：mixed 常见场景：theatre and literary criticism、daily conversation and political commentary farce 的语域随语境而变：指戏剧类型时多用于文学、戏剧讨论，属中性或正式；指‘荒唐可笑的事’时常见于日常对话和新闻评论，带有讽刺语气。因此整体标为 mixed，使用时需根据是否涉及戏剧本义来判断。
真正与 farce /fɑrs/ 押韵的是 parse /pɑrs/ 和 sparse /spɑrs/；注意 force /fɔrs/、scarce /skɛrs/、fierce /fɪrs/、pierce /pɪrs/ 虽然拼写相近，但元音不同，不押韵。
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