Word · CEFR C1 · Frequency #11224
farce
闹剧；滑稽剧
farce
- 1.
A style of humor marked by broad improbabilities with little regard to regularity or method.
一种以荒诞离奇、不拘常规或手法为特点的幽默风格。
- 2.
a comedy characterized by broad satire and improbable situations
以夸张讽刺和不可能情境为特点的喜剧
- 3.
A motion picture or play featuring this style of humor.
以这种幽默风格为特色的电影或戏剧。
- 4.
mixture of ground raw chicken and mushrooms with pistachios and truffles and onions and parsley and lots of butter and bound with eggs
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
- 5.
A situation abounding with ludicrous incidents.
充满可笑事件的情境。
- 6.
A ridiculous or empty show.
荒唐或空洞的表演。
- 7.
An elaborate lie.
精心编造的谎言。
- 8.
Forcemeat, stuffing.
肉馅；填料。
一种以荒诞离奇、不拘常规或手法为特点的幽默风格。；以夸张讽刺和不可能情境为特点的喜剧；以这种幽默风格为特色的电影或戏剧。；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；充满可笑事件的情境。
In use
The director's new comedy is a farce full of mistaken identities and ridiculous situations.
We studied French farces in our theater history class, laughing at their exaggerated plots.
The play began as a witty satire, but it quickly turned into a crude farce.
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。
descend into farce
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。
a farce about sth
这里的 farce 指舞台或影视作品中的闹剧、滑稽剧。
Connections
Collocations
- descend into farce
- 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。
- political farce
- 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。
- utter farce
- 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。
- comic farce
- 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。
- bordering on farce
- 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。
Idioms & figurative uses
Learner notes
Memory Tip
farce 可拆成 far（远）+ce，闹剧剧情荒诞、离现实很远，令人哭笑不得。
Context & Register
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。
Pronunciation & Spelling
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。
Usage priority
Collins 词频等级为 1，建议结合例句记忆，而不是只背中文释义。
Learn the forms together
页面下方列出了常见词形变化。学习时注意它们在句子中的语法位置。
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