n.小丑；粗鲁愚蠢的人

v.扮小丑；胡闹

It's a picture depicting him as a clown. 这是一幅把他画成小丑的画。

I just curled up when I saw her dressed as a clown. 我见她打扮得像个小丑，把我笑得直不起腰来。

I wish he would stop being such a clown. 我希望他能够不再像个粗俗的小丑。

Start climbing up the charts, so sick, but they tried to clown. 开始向美好奋斗

Stop all this clowning. 别再开玩笑了。

clown的基本意思是“（马戏团的）丑角，小丑”，是没有褒贬意味的中性词。用于比喻可指“单纯无知、粗俗笨拙的人”，这时可含轻蔑意味。还可指“行为荒诞滑稽的人”。

clown是可数名词。在句中除用作主语、表语、宾语外，还可用如形容词修饰名词作定语。

clown还可用作不及物动词，意思是“扮丑角，逗乐子”，例如：Stop clowning around and get some serious work done. 不要再胡闹了，干点正事吧。