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travesty 音標拼音: [tr'ævəsti] n. 滑稽化的作品,漫畫,滑稽模仿
vt. 使滑稽化,歪曲 滑稽化的作品,漫畫,滑稽模仿使滑稽化,歪曲 travesty n 1: a comedy characterized by broad satire and improbable situations [ synonym: { farce}, { farce comedy}, { travesty}] 2: a composition that imitates or misrepresents somebody' s style, usually in a humorous way [ synonym: { parody}, { lampoon}, { spoof}, { sendup}, { mockery}, { takeoff}, { burlesque}, { travesty}, { charade}, { pasquinade}, { put- on}] v 1: make a travesty ofTravesty \ Trav" es* ty\, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. { Travestied}; p. pr. & vb. n. { Travesting}.] To translate, imitate, or represent, so as to render ridiculous or ludicrous. [ 1913 Webster] I see poor Lucan travestied, not appareled in his Roman toga, but under the cruel shears of an English tailor. -- Bentley. [ 1913 Webster]
Travesty \ Trav" es* ty\, a. [ F. travesti, p. p. of travestir to disguise, to travesty, It. travestire, fr. L. trans across, over vestire to dress, clothe. See { Vest}.] Disguised by dress so as to be ridiculous; travestied; -- applied to a book or shorter composition. [ R.] [ 1913 Webster]
Travesty \ Trav" es* ty\, n.; pl. { Travesties}. A burlesque translation or imitation of a work. [ 1913 Webster] The second edition is not a recast, but absolutely a travesty of the first. -- De Quincey. [ 1913 Webster] 147 Moby Thesaurus words for " travesty": Atticism, aggrandize, aggrandizement, agile wit, amplification, amplify, anamorphosis, ape, bad likeness, ballyhoo, belie, big talk, black humor, blowing up, botch, build up, burlesque, camouflage, caricature, carry too far, color, comedy, copy, daub, dilatation, dilation, disguise, distort, distortion, draw the longbow, dry wit, dummy, duplication, enhancement, enlargement, esprit, exaggerate, exaggerating, exaggeration, excess, exorbitance, expansion, extravagance, extreme, facsimile, falsify, farce, garble, go to extremes, grandiloquence, heightening, hit off on, huckstering, humor, hyperbole, hyperbolism, hyperbolize, imitate, imitation, inflation, inordinacy, irony, knockoff, lampoon, lay it on, magnification, magnify, make much of, mimicry, miscolor, misquote, misreport, misrepresent, misstate, misteach, mock, mock- up, mockery, model, nimble wit, overcharge, overdo, overdraw, overemphasis, overestimate, overestimation, overkill, overpraise, overreach, overreact, oversell, overspeak, overstate, overstatement, overstress, paraphrase, parody, pastiche, pervert, pile it on, pleasantry, pretty wit, prodigality, profuseness, puff, puffery, puffing up, quick wit, ready wit, replica, representation, reproduction, ridicule, salt, sarcasm, satire, satirize, savor of wit, scratch, scribble, sensationalism, sham, slant, slapstick, slapstick humor, squib, stretch, stretch the truth, stretching, subtle wit, superlative, take off, take off on, takeoff, talk big, talk in superlatives, tall talk, tout, touting, twist, understate, version, visual humor, warp, wicked imitation, wit, wrench
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