恶作剧 (惡作劇)
è zuò jù
Pinyin
Definition
恶作剧 (惡作劇)
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- practical joke
- prank
- to play a practical joke
Character Decomposition
Related Words (20)
- 1 worker
- 2 workshop
- 3 (slang) troublesome
- 4 high-maintenance (person)
- 1 one's conduct
- 2 deed
- 3 activity
- 4 accomplishment
- 5 achievement
- 6 to act as
- 7 as (in the capacity of)
- 8 qua
- 9 to view as
- 10 to look upon (sth as)
- 11 to take sth to be
Idioms (20)
以身作则
- 1 to set an example (idiom); to serve as a model
作威作福
- 1 tyrannical abuse (idiom); riding roughshod over people
作茧自缚
- 1 to spin a cocoon around oneself (idiom); enmeshed in a trap of one's own devising
- 2 hoist by his own petard
作鸟兽散
- 1 lit. scatter like birds and beasts (idiom)
- 2 fig. to head off in various directions
- 3 to flee helter-skelter
俾夜作昼
- 1 lit. to make night as day (idiom); fig. to burn the midnight oil
- 2 work especially hard
Sample Sentences
你一定是搞错了,我们这里真的没有阿牛这个人,你是故意的吧,麻烦你不要再恶作剧了,再见。
You must be mistaken. There's really no Aniu here. You must be pulling my leg. Please quit this practical joke. Goodbye.
点赞有的时候可以搞恶作剧。
Sometimes giving a “like” can be used in a sarcastic way.
探员小陈说:“局长,这次肯定也是恶作剧。”
Investigator Xiao Chen said, "Chief, this is definitely just another prank."
但经过警方的调查,最终证明两封信的内容都是恶作剧。
However, after being investigated by the police, it was verified that the two messages were pranks.
看来又是一次恶作剧。
It seemed that it was yet another prank.
是啊,不过我在外国人的超市也看到好多万圣节的南瓜灯。其实这个节日还有一个很重要的部分,就是小孩子问邻居要糖吃。他们会几个人一起,绕着自己住的地方,一家一家敲门,说:“trickortreat?”如果哪家没有用好东西招待他们,他们就会搞恶作剧。