high jinks

音標發(fā)音

Quite a lot of us derive our patchy understanding of globalisation from such well-publicised high jinks.
我們中有很多人對全球化的理解都比較零碎，而且這種理解都來自於這種大肆宣敭且喧閙的活動之中。
Hack is a misleading word here, as it is less to do with cracking into computers than with hi-tech high-jinks.
黑客在這裡是一個誤用詞，因爲它和那種高科技詐騙以及切入別人的電腦毫無關(guān)系。
A group that's often quick to blow the whistle when it sees food industry high jinks — The Center for Science in the Public Interest — also issued a press release urging caution.
"公共利益科學中心"是一夥這樣的人，他們一看到食品行業(yè)有點啥事兒就大呼小叫。他們也來湊熱閙，也發(fā)表了一份新聞稿，敦促公衆(zhòng)謹慎行事。

Not even the men of the law, it seems, can resist a bit of Songkran high jinks.
ECONOMIST: Is the Songkran festival getting out of hand?
Read now, it seems less amusing, and what previously felt like a string of high jinks comes across as a tireless parade of emotional cruelty.
NEWYORKER: Hack Work
"Doc, " we learn, has ginned up a time machine out of a plutonium-powered DeLorean. (This is 1985, after all.) Following a series of high jinks and goofs the DeLorean propels Marty back to 1955.
FORBES: You Can Predict the Future

energetic and excited behaviour in which people do funny things or play tricks on someone