A ludicrous, buffoonish character in old comedies who attempts feebly to mimic the tricks of the clown.

小丑，丑角旧时喜剧中滑稽可笑的角色，他们愚笨地来模仿小丑的把戏。

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Tezuka's eight-volume life of Buddha, for instance, is serious and thoughtful, yet is also interlarded with buffoonish comic business.

举例说，Tezuka有8卷的关于佛的生活的哪部作品思想深邃同时穿插了小丑般的漫画。

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The result can be a pomposity that is almost buffoonish in a world where France is no longer a front-rank power.

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Yet whereas Mr Cheney was seen as the grey eminence behind the sometimes buffoonish Mr Bush, Mr Biden seems a cheery backslapper compared to the professorial Mr Obama.

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Truth is, America's tax burden--after you add up state and local and pile on the cost of complying with our buffoonish 54, 000-page tax code--is not much less than Europe's.

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