橘子朗文词典

high jinks

H 开头单词

音标发音

  • 英式音标 [ˌhaɪ ˈdʒɪŋks]
  • 美式音标 [ˌhaɪ ˈdʒɪŋks]
  • 英式发音
  • 美式发音

基本解释

  • 胡闹；狂欢作乐

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英汉例句

    双语例句

  • Quite a lot of us derive our patchy understanding of globalisation from such well-publicised high jinks.
    我们中有很多人对全球化的理解都比较零碎，而且这种理解都来自于这种大肆宣扬且喧闹的活动之中。
  • Hack is a misleading word here, as it is less to do with cracking into computers than with hi-tech high-jinks.
    黑客在这里是一个误用词，因为它和那种高科技诈骗以及切入别人的电脑毫无关系。
  • A group that's often quick to blow the whistle when it sees food industry high jinks — The Center for Science in the Public Interest — also issued a press release urging caution.
    "公共利益科学中心"是一伙这样的人， 他们一看到食品行业有点啥事儿就大呼小叫。 他们也来凑热闹，也发表了一份新闻稿，敦促公众谨慎行事。

    • 权威例句

  • Not even the men of the law, it seems, can resist a bit of Songkran high jinks.
    ECONOMIST: Is the Songkran festival getting out of hand?
  • Read now, it seems less amusing, and what previously felt like a string of high jinks comes across as a tireless parade of emotional cruelty.
    NEWYORKER: Hack Work
  • "Doc, " we learn, has ginned up a time machine out of a plutonium-powered DeLorean. (This is 1985, after all.) Following a series of high jinks and goofs the DeLorean propels Marty back to 1955.
    FORBES: You Can Predict the Future

英英字典

    剑桥英英字典

  • energetic and excited behaviour in which people do funny things or play tricks on someone