droll
droll 英 [drəʊl] 美 [droʊl]
adj. 滑稽的；好笑的；逗趣的 n. 小丑，滑稽可笑的人 vi. 开玩笑
- Need a mental picture for the word droll? Think of one of those cute-homely troll dolls — blend those two words together — "doll" and "troll" — and you get droll, a description of a figure that is adorably strange and whimsically cute.
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- adj. 滑稽的；好笑的；逗趣的
- n. 小丑，滑稽可笑的人
- vi. 开玩笑
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1. Its droll tone and tricksy style almost mask its heroine’s solitude and tristesse.
它滑稽的语调和恶作剧的风格几乎掩盖了女主角的孤僻和忧郁。
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2. After he interviewed Janet, he called me and said in his droll way, I think we’ve got a live one.
文斯在面见了雷诺后，打电话给我，用他惯用的滑稽腔调说，“我想我们找到了一个有活力的。”
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3. The fodder for their matching apparatus was a handful of personality tests and droll questionnaires that they’d posted on the Spark to lure traffic.
他们配对机构的素材是少量的人格测试和发布在"斯帕克"上用来吸引流量的好笑的调查问卷。
- droll (adj.) 1620s, from French drôle "odd, comical, funny" (1580s), in Middle French a noun meaning "a merry fellow," possibly from Middle Dutch drol "fat little fellow, goblin," or Middle High German trolle "clown," ultimately from Old Norse troll "giant, troll" (see troll (n.)). Related: Drolly; drollish.
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