ADJ-GRADED 滑稽的;傻傻的 If you describe a person's appearance or behaviour as clownish, you mean that they look or behave rather like a clown, and often that they appear rather foolish.
A technocratic economic administration combined with a clownish fa ç ade does not suffice, however: something more is needed. 一个技术官僚和经济行政的结合,再加上有一个小丑的外表还不够:还需要别的东西。
You do not assume, indeed, the solemnity of the pulpit, or the tone of stage-declamation; neither are you at liberty to gabble on at a venture, without emphasis or discretion, or to resort to vulgar dialect or clownish pronunciation. 当然,你无须像在教堂里讲道或在舞台上朗诵那样拿腔作势;然而,你也不可不分轻重,不讲分寸,信口哇啦哇啦,再不然就乞灵于粗俗方言和油腔滑调。
Among them, for example, images of clownish old ladies and poor, villainous infanticides are the most common. 其中,滑稽的老妇角色以及杀婴等低劣小人形象最为常见。