screwball 英 ['skruːbɔːl]   美 ['skrubɔl]

screwball

screwball  英 ['skruːbɔːl] 美 ['skrubɔl]

n. 怪人;略带神经病的人;内曲线球  adj. 精神有点怪的;怪僻的 

名词复数:screwballs 

When I walked through screwball Square again, some college kids were yelling "wheah's your redlines" at old Charlie, the last of the Wobblies. 当我再次穿过曲线球广场时,几个大学生还在冲着一个老头子喊着“红线在哪里?”
In an age when movie dialogue is dumbed and slowed down to suit slow-wits in the audience, the dialogue here has the velocity and snap of screwball comedy. 在现在这个年代,电影对话一般被刻意地愚蠢化和放慢节奏,以便适应低智的观众,而这部电影里面的对话则有着神经喜剧里面的速度和撞击。

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  • n. 怪人;略带神经病的人;内曲线球
  • adj. 精神有点怪的;怪僻的
  • 1. When I walked through screwball Square again, some college kids were yelling "wheah's your redlines" at old Charlie, the last of the Wobblies.

    当我再次穿过曲线球广场时,几个大学生还在冲着一个老头子喊着“红线在哪里?”

  • 2. In an age when movie dialogue is dumbed and slowed down to suit slow-wits in the audience, the dialogue here has the velocity and snap of screwball comedy.

    在现在这个年代,电影对话一般被刻意地愚蠢化和放慢节奏,以便适应低智的观众,而这部电影里面的对话则有着神经喜剧里面的速度和撞击。

  • 3. They pretend to be an absent couple in order to grab a reservation at a trendy restaurant, and two hit men assume they are that couple and topple them into a screwball comedy.

    为了抢得一家时髦餐馆里的预定位置,菲尔和克莱尔冒充了一对订位后却没来的夫妇,而两名杀手以为他俩就是订位的夫妇,因此使他俩卷入了一场神经喜剧。

  • screwball (n.) "eccentric person," 1933, U.S. slang, earlier as a type of erratic baseball pitch (1928), from a still earlier name for a type of delivery in cricket (1866), from screw (n.) + ball (n.1). Screwball comedy is attested from 1938, in reference to Carole Lombard.
screw·ball / ˈskruːbɔːl ; NAmE ˈskruːbɔːl / noun ( informal) ( especially NAmE) a strange or crazy person 怪人;狂人 screwball screwballs screw·ball / ˈskruːbɔːl ; NAmE ˈskruːbɔːl /
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