A buffoon is more humiliating than a bounder.

一个小丑比一个无教养的人更可耻。

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The man painted his hair into blue, looking like a buffoon.

那人的头发染成了艳绿色，看上去像个小丑。

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In most people's opinion, what she acted was alike a buffoon.

在很多人看来，她的行为很滑稽。

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But to be a buffoon is also to mock the respectable behaviour of the laughing audience.

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They quickly expose him as a phony, a buffoon, and a talentless hack, and then spend the rest of the movie punishing him.

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Over the years, Ballmer has made a buffoon of himself while turning out wrong call after wrong call on products, markets, and people.

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