farce
farce
noun
noun
- a comic dramatic work using buffoonery and horseplay and typically including crude characterization and ludicrously improbable situations
闹剧，笑剧，滑稽戏
■[mass noun]the genre of such works
闹（或笑）剧类作品
■an absurd event
荒谬之事
the debate turned into a drunken farce.
那场辩论变成了一场酗酒闹剧。
- early 16th cent.: from French, literally stuffing', from farcir 'to stuff', from Latin farcire. An earlier sense of 'forcemeat stuffing' became used metaphorically for comic interludes ‘stuffed’ into the texts of religious plays, whence current usage
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