Bev made her laugh, the way she was always clowning around.

贝芙令她大笑，用她常用的扮小丑手法。

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This harlequin shrimp isn't clowning around (yeah, yeah, cue groans).

这些小丑虾是不是在到处胡闹(是，是，暗示着抱怨)。

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That boy is seldom serious about anything. he is always clowning around.

那个男孩对什么事都不关心，他总在胡闹！

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Usually, a person is clowning around if he is being funny when he should be serious.

VOA: special.2009.01.11

In that case, you may get angry and say, "Stop clowning around.

VOA: special.2009.01.11

When the bottle was empty Loren pretended to try to catch fireflies with it, but he was obviously just clowning around.

NPR: Excerpt: 'World Made By Hand'

When we all got together the lads would be clowning around and wanting to go out but that is just normal.

BBC: Micah Richards column

"We had done about seven or eight takes (on the 'Jeffersons' set) ... and then we started clowning around, " he said of the walk.

CNN: 'Jeffersons' star Sherman Hemsley dies at 74