jester

英 [ˈdʒestə(r)]

美 [ˈdʒestər]

n.  (旧时宫廷中的)逗乐小丑，弄臣

复数：jesters　

BNC.23234 / COCA.24514

牛津词典

noun

• （旧时宫廷中的）逗乐小丑，弄臣
  a man employed in the past at the court of a king or queen to amuse people by telling jokes and funny stories
  1. the court jester
     宫廷弄臣

柯林斯词典

• （中世纪欧洲宫廷的）逗乐小丑，弄臣
  In the courts of kings and queens in medieval Europe, thejesterwas the person whose job was to do silly things in order to make people laugh.

英英释义

noun

• a professional clown employed to entertain a king or nobleman in the Middle Ages
  Synonym:foolmotley fool

双语例句

• Jester: you're not gonna shoot me, are you? If you do, I'll die, you know.
  杰斯特：你不会开枪的吧？你一开枪我的小命可就挂了，你知道的。
• I'm the jester perhaps, if that works.
  也许我是小丑，如果这样可以的话。
• He returned to his kingdom and began to poll everybody: the princess, the priests, the wise men, the court jester.
  亚瑟回到自己的王国，并开始征询每个人的意见。公主，牧师，智者，甚至宫廷里逗乐小丑的意见他都问过了。
• Jester works in every instance outside a Maven project build configuration.
  Jester运行在Maven项目构建配置以外的每个实例中。
• The story goes that a certain court jester went too far one day and insulted his king.
  这是关于一个宫廷小丑的故事。这天，他故事讲的有点儿过头，得罪了国王。
• Good thing I'm neither a clown nor a court jester.
  好在我既不是小丑也不是宫廷丑角。
• Jester: don't act so rashly, my boy.
  杰斯特：别那么不耐烦，我的孩子。
• She held the little moon that the jester had brought her.
  她握着那小丑带给她的小月亮。
• Written by Ivan Moore, Jester is an excellent tool that tests the unit tests that programmers and developers write.
  Jester由IvanMoore编写，它是测试由程序员和开发人员编写的单元测试的优秀工具。
• There are two convenience scripts from the Windows and Linux/ UNIX platforms that would install Jester ( that is, the actual jester-1.37.jar file) into Maven's local repository.
  Windows和Linux/UNIX平台提供了两个方便的脚本，它们可以把Jester（即，实际的jester-1.37.jar文件）安装到Maven的本地系统库中。