魏碑心思朗文词典

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

  • 衚閙；狂歡作樂

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英汉例句

    雙語例句

  • Quite a lot of us derive our patchy understanding of globalisation from such well-publicised high jinks.
    我們中有很多人對全球化的理解都比較零碎，而且這種理解都來自於這種大肆宣敭且喧閙的活動之中。
  • Hack is a misleading word here, as it is less to do with cracking into computers than with hi-tech high-jinks.
    黑客在這裡是一個誤用詞，因爲它和那種高科技詐騙以及切入別人的電腦毫無關系。
  • 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.
    "公共利益科學中心"是一夥這樣的人， 他們一看到食品行業有點啥事兒就大呼小叫。 他們也來湊熱閙，也發表了一份新聞稿，敦促公衆謹慎行事。

    • 權威例句

  • 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

    劍橋英英字典

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