juggler: [12] A juggler was originally a ‘jester’, and the word is related to English joke. Its ultimate source was Latin joculātor, a derivative of jocus ‘jest’ (from which English gets joke). This passed into Old French as jogleor, and was borrowed into English at the beginning of the 12th century. It denoted a general entertainer or buffoon, but it was also used for a magician or conjurer, and it was presumably an underlying notion of dexterity or sleight of hand that led by the 17th century to its being used for someone who keeps several objects in the air at the same time.
Old French jogleor became modern French jougleur, and this spawned the variant form jongleur, which was borrowed into English in the 18th century. => jocular, joke
juggler (n.)
c. 1100, iugulere "jester, buffoon," also "wizard, sorcerer," from Old English geogelere "magician, conjurer," also from Anglo-French jogelour, Old French jogleor (accusative), from Latin ioculatorem (nominative ioculator) "joker," from ioculari "to joke, to jest" (see jocular). Connecting notion between "magician" and "juggler" is dexterity.
雙語例句
1. Dick was a juggler, who threw mists before your eyes.
迪克是個騙子, 他在你面前故弄玄虛.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
2. The juggler juggled three bottles.
這個玩雜耍的人可同時拋接3個瓶子.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
3. The juggler juggled three flasks.
這個玩雜耍的人可同時拋接三個瓶子.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
4. The juggler conjured a rabbit out of the hat.
那個耍把戲的人從帽子里變出一只兔子來.
來自辭典例句
5. His clowning is founded on extreme skill as juggler and acrobat.