no obj., with adverbial of direction
- skip or dance about in a lively or playful way蹦蹦跳跳, 雀跃：
children were capering about the room.
孩子们在房间里蹦来跳去。
1
- a playful skipping movement蹦跳, 雀跃：
she did a little caper or dance.
她蹦跳雀跃了一会儿。
2
- informal an activity or escapade, typically one that is illicit or ridiculous〈非正式〉（尤指非法或荒谬的）玩笑, 恶作剧：
I'm too old for this kind of caper
我太老了, 不适合这种玩笑
some sort of organized-crime caper.
某种有组织犯罪性质的恶作剧。
2.1
- amusing or far-fetched film or television drama（逗笑或夸张的）电影; 电视剧：
a cop caper about intergalactic drug dealers.
一部关于跨银河毒品交易的警匪片。
短语
cut a caper
- make a playful, skipping movement雀跃。
派生词
caperer
noun词源
late 16th cent.: abbreviation of CAPRIOLE.
1
- （一般作capers）the cooked and pickled flower buds of a bramble-like southern European shrub, used to flavour food（烹调腌制的）刺山柑花蕾。
2
- the shrub from which these buds are taken刺山柑。
2.1
- Capparis spinosa, family Capparidaceae.拉丁名Capparis spinosa,白花菜科。
词源
late Middle English: from French capres or Latin capparis, from Greek kapparis; later interpreted as plural， hence the loss of the final -s in the 16th cent.