fun

fun 主要表示“有趣、好玩、开心”，也可指玩乐活动，或表示带有戏谑意味地逗弄别人。

💡 记忆钩子

把 fun 想成一场让人开心的玩闹：事情本身“好玩”，这种玩闹就是 fun；风格也可以变得俏皮、夸张而更有 fun；拿这种玩笑去逗别人，就是 funning someone。

📝 学习建议

先掌握“好玩、开心”和“玩乐”这条主线，再学习“逗弄、取笑”的动词用法。
fun 通常不是“有趣的”在所有位置上的直接替代品；表示“有趣的”时常放在名词前，而“有趣”作表语时更常用 funny 或 interesting，需按具体语境区分。

📖 中文释义

adj

core 好玩；有趣

📖 指某项活动、经历或事物能带来快乐，让人觉得值得参与；这是 fun 最核心的形容词意义。

💡 常用“fun + 活动或事物”以及“be fun to do”这类结构。它通常修饰能带来愉快体验的对象，不表示对象本身一定滑稽可笑。中文里不要把 fun 一律译成“有趣”，在强调玩乐感时译成“好玩”更自然。

We had a fun time at the party.

我们在聚会上玩得很开心。

Cooking together can be fun.

一起做饭可以很有趣。
common 俏皮的；夸张有趣的

📖 指风格、设计或表现方式活泼、俏皮，甚至有些夸张，让人感到轻松好玩，而不那么严肃。

💡 常用“a fun + 名词”或“make something more fun”来描述风格和设计。这个意义多用于非正式谈话、时尚、广告或创意语境。不要把它理解成“质量差”或“幼稚”，重点是轻松、活泼的感觉。

informal

She chose a fun, colorful jacket for the trip.

她为这次旅行选了一件色彩鲜艳、很俏皮的夹克。

more fun comparative funner comparative,informal most fun superlative funnest informal,superlative

noun

core 乐趣；开心

📖 指参加活动或做某事时获得的快乐和享受，也就是“好玩”所带来的那种感觉。

💡 常用“have fun”表示“玩得开心”，“for fun”表示“为了好玩”，以及“be fun”表示“令人开心”。fun 在这些用法中通常不可数，前面不加 a；不要把“玩得开心”直译成不自然的“play fun”。

uncountable

The children had a lot of fun at the beach.

孩子们在海滩上玩得很开心。

I joined the class just for fun.

我参加这门课只是为了好玩。
common 嬉闹；热闹的玩乐

📖 指一群人轻松、顽皮、可能有些吵闹的活动；它仍然围绕“通过玩闹获得快乐”这一核心概念。

💡 常放在“all the fun”“join in the fun”等结构中，表示加入或参与正在进行的热闹活动。这个意义仍是不可数名词，通常不用于正式场合。若只是说个人的快乐体验，优先使用前面的“乐趣、开心”意义。

uncountable

Come and join in the fun!

来一起玩吧！

verb

common 逗弄；取笑

📖 指把“好玩”的玩闹用在别人身上，故意逗对方或拿对方开玩笑；语气可以友善，也可能让人不舒服。

💡 常用“be just funning someone”说明“只是在逗某人”，或用“fun someone about …”指出取笑的对象。它是非正式用法，不能自然地替代所有“玩”或“开玩笑”的表达。说话时要根据关系判断语气，因为对方可能把这种戏谑理解为冒犯。

colloquial

Don't worry—I was only funning you.

别担心，我只是在逗你。

funs present,singular,third-person funning participle,present funned participle,past funned past

📘 英文释义 (WordNet) 共 4 组

activities that are enjoyable or amusing;

同义词集: fun merriment playfulness

I do it for the fun of it

he is fun to have around

上位: diversion, recreation

violent and excited activity

同义词集: fun

she asked for money and then the fun began

上位: activity

a disposition to find (or make) causes for amusement;

同义词集: playfulness fun

her playfulness surprised me

he was fun to be with

下位: humor, humour, sense of humor, sense of humour

verbal wit or mockery (often at another's expense but not to be taken seriously);

同义词集: fun play sport

he became a figure of fun

he said it in sport

上位: humor, humour, wit, witticism, wittiness 下位: clowning, comedy, drollery, funniness, paronomasia, pun, punning, wordplay

🌳 词源

fun 原先与“傻瓜、愚弄”有关，后来发展出“戏弄、玩笑”和“娱乐、开心”等意义；现代形容词用法则由名词用法重新分析而来。

From Middle English fonne, fon (“foolish, simple, silly”) or fonnen (“make a fool of”), from Middle English fonne (“a fool, dupe”), probably of North Germanic origin, related to Swedish fånig (“foolish”), Swedish fåne (“a fool”), from Old Norse fáni (“vain person, swaggerer”), but of unknown ultimate origin. Perhaps related to or influenced by fjäll (“rock, cliff, mountain”). Compare also English fumble, Norwegian Nynorsk fomme (“clumsy fool”). Compare also Norwegian fomme, fume (“a fool”). More at fon, fond. As a noun, fun is recorded from 1700, with a meaning “a cheat, trick, hoax”, from a verb fun meaning “to cheat, trick” (1680s). The meaning “diversion, amusement” dates to the 1720s. The older meaning is preserved in the phrase to make fun of (1737) and in usage of the adjective funny. The use of fun as adjective is newest and is due to reanalysis of the noun; this was incipient in the mid-19th century. Alternative etymology connected Middle English fonne with Old Frisian fonna, fone, fomne, variant forms of fāmne, fēmne (“young woman, virgin”), from Proto-West Germanic *faimnijā, from Proto-Germanic *faimnijǭ (“maiden”), from Proto-Indo-European *peymen- (“girl”), *poymen- (“breast milk”). If so, then cognate with Old English fǣmne (“maid, virgin, damsel, bride”), West Frisian famke (“girl”), Saterland Frisian fone, fon (“woman, maid, servant," also "weakling, simpleton”).

🔄 变式

funned past funner compar funnest superl funning present funs present more fun compar most fun superl

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