knockabout

1 The film has the knockabout feel of a kids' TV show on CBBC, which is no bad thing, but the comedy doesn't quite come together.

2 The three bond in a herky-jerky plot of low comedy, knockabout combat and a saccharine song here and there.

3 It was at times a knockabout existence;

有时，那是一种漂泊不定的生活；

4 His combination of brutish innocence and inner loneliness belongs wholly to the world of knockabout.

5 Comic plays on Broadway these days are generally either knockabout farces like “The Play That Goes Wrong” or repurposed stand-up routines like “Latin History for Morons.”

6 It’s no surprise that this knockabout dramatic style bleeds into the rehearsal room, but the friends at the heart of the company, who are in their late 20s, don’t just fight.

7 Much of the comedy in Dinner for One is slapstick, knockabout stuff: James spills wine, drops food, crashes into furniture and downs the water in the flower vases instead of what's in the port glasses.

8 a knockabout game of football in the mud

9 The 70-minute “Bon Voyage!” is knockabout, I suppose, but it’s never antic.

10 Indeed, as far as the ever-excitable Charles Spencer is concerned, what the audience at the Chichester Festival Theatre have witnessed may be some kind of knockabout masterpiece.

11 The directors, Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, create the usual college satire and fill up the holes in the plot with knockabout physical comedy, some of which is funny.—D.D.

12 Her paintings and sculptures may be knocked-about as well as knockabout, but there is a great deal of personal abjection in them.

13 Every moment rings true, the vividly textured locations and knockabout relationships more visited than created.

14 Wisdom, who has died aged 95, was almost the last in a great tradition of knockabout, slapstick clowns, a performer who relied less on words than on an acrobatic physical dexterity to gain his laughs.

15 They share permutations on jokes and a preference for smooth execution over fast knockabout stunts.

16 Mental is a knockabout black comedy from Australia that starts off exhilaratingly mad and funny, then progressively loses its edge.

17 This free-and-easy, almost knockabout atmosphere pleased Catherine.

18 The knockabout Punch and Judy show undergoes a grand Hollywood upgrade on Gone Girl, a garish, gripping tale of a warring husband and wife that plays like a Relate counsellor’s worst nightmare.

19 Lost at times in the linguistic shuffle is the wistful ache underpinning a comedy that, as is the Shakespearean norm, unveils grievous emotions on the way to its knockabout finish.

20 But the play's largely two-dimensional approach to its characters proves wearing, particularly Mari's endless rounds of brassy self-pity, which Gannon at least makes fun of with knockabout physicality and boozy libidinousness.

1 激烈的争论

the cut and thrust

2 耐磨的

durable hard-wearing

3 流浪

gang-there-out rambling nomadic wandering roving vagrant vagabond stragglingly roam rove vagrancy migrancy wander stroll bum castaway planetary nomad fugitive migratory tramp peregrine Bedouin lumpen masterless vagarious vagabondage vagabondize roll drift rogue stray pilgrim wag divagate on the drift

4 小舢板

dinghy

5 嘈杂的

noisy bouncing rip-roaring rumbustious tin-panny rambunctious vociferous tin-pan abuzz aflutter

6 喧闹的

slambang clamant rough noisy stormy Randy brassy obstreperous rorty rumbustious rowdydowdy ring-a-ding mad robust bustling blatant roaring rowdy raucous rambunctious uninhibited rip-roaring Dionysian bacchanal bacchanalian slam-bang rackety moiling wingding robustious zizzy strepitous abuzz rantipole fast and furious

7 流浪汉

bum bummer tramp derelict vagrant hobo whaler bagman skell dosser clochard overlander bindlestiff derro picaresque stiff rogue drifter canter Johnson dingbat bo dinger grifter sundowner picaro ruffler lazzarone gangrel seasoner landloper

8 打闹

fracas brawl

9 欢闹

festivous hilarious festive merry daft wanton frisky boffo hang-loose spree romp skylark whoopee razzle jollity razzle-dazzle rollick howl be on the razzle be on the razzle dazzle

10 闹剧

extravaganza farce melodrama slapstick low comedy pantomime

11 徘徊的

aprowl wandering peripatetic rangy dithery

12 胡闹

slapstick farcical farce dido razzle razzle-dazzle archness shenanigan monkey frivol play the giddy goat cut didos hi jinks act giddy goat act the goat play giddy goat play the goat horse around out of mischief piss around

13 欢闹的

festivous hilarious festive merry daft wanton frisky boffo hang-loose

14 杂务工

handyman supernumerary

15 吵闹

rowdydowdy ugly noisy blatant turbulent stormy rowdy uproarious jangling loquacious clamorous larrikin clamant riproaring rantipole rowdyish loudly blatantly noisily rowdily rumbustiously row-de-dow scene row racket rhubarb ruckus fracas rowdiness ruction noisiness hullaballoo rowdyism blatancy shemozzle kick up a row make a row

16 吵闹的

rowdydowdy ugly noisy blatant turbulent stormy rowdy uproarious jangling loquacious clamorous larrikin clamant riproaring rantipole rowdyish

17 嘈杂

noisy bouncing rip-roaring rumbustious turmoil tin-panny rambunctious vociferous tin-pan strepitoso abuzz aflutter rux

18 单桅帆船

singlesticker sloop

19 喧闹

slambang clamant rough noisy stormy Randy brassy obstreperous rorty rumbustious noise riot rattle fuss stink to-do romp commotion hoopla furore brouhaha rumpus ballyhoo corroboree shindy rag hoot clamour alarums and excursions rowdydowdy ring-a-ding mad robust bustling blatant roaring rowdy raucous rambunctious uninhibited rip-roaring Dionysian bacchanal bacchanalian slam-bang rackety moiling wingding robustious zizzy strepitous strepitoso abuzz splatterdash dirdum whoop-de-do row-de-dow vociferance row-dow fuzzbuzz whoop-up fun coil rave stew binge bustle merriment furor jangle bedlam horseplay bust-up hurly-burly blinder bowwow deray tzimmes bobbery whoopla rowdydow rout roar rumble din roil yammer rantipole a whoop and a holler enough to wake the dead fast and furious

20 徘徊

aprowl wandering peripatetic rangy dithery roam rove stravage range wander hover revolve linger muck loiter mooch maunder divagate perambulate hang round linger about

21 小游艇

dinghy

22 胡闹的

slapstick farcical

23 流浪的

gang-there-out rambling nomadic wandering roving vagrant vagabond castaway planetary nomad fugitive migratory tramp peregrine Bedouin lumpen masterless vagarious

24 帮工

swamper

25 打闹的

hoity-toity

26 零工

job jobber gyppo