You do not assume, indeed, the solemnity of the pulpit, or the tone of stage-declamation; neither are you at liberty to gabble on at a venture, without emphasis or discretion, or to resort to vulgar dialect or clownish pronunc 当然,你无须像在教堂里讲道或在舞台上朗诵那样拿腔作势;然而,你也不可不分轻重,不讲分寸,信口哇啦哇啦,再不然就乞灵于粗俗方言和油腔滑调。
Even before he left office, a majority of Russians, from Kaliningrad to Kamchatka, despised him, partly on account of the raging inflation, unpaid salaries and oligarchic larceny of his rule, but even more for the shame many thought he brought on Russia t 即便在他尚未离任的时候,从加里宁格勒到堪察加,大部分俄罗斯人都瞧不起他,这在一定程度上是因为他治下的俄罗斯通货膨胀不断加重,发不出工资,寡头贪污成风,但更主要还是因为,许多俄罗斯人认为他那“可笑的醉态”给俄罗斯丢了脸。
clownish
[ adj ] like a clown <adj.all> a buffoonish walka clownish face a zany sense of humor
Clownish \Clown"ish\, a. Of or resembling a clown, or characteristic of a clown; ungainly; awkward. ``Clownish hands.'' --Spenser. ``Clownish mimic.'' --Prior. -- {Clown"ish*ly}, adv.