quip
英 [kwɪp]
美 [kwɪp]
n. 俏皮话; 妙语
v. 讲俏皮话; 讥讽; 嘲弄; 打趣
过去式:quipped 复数:quips 第三人称单数:quips 现在分词:quipping 过去分词:quipped
Collins.1 / BNC.19574 / COCA.13578
牛津词典
noun
- 俏皮话;妙语
a quick and clever remark- to make a quip
说俏皮话
- to make a quip
verb
- 讲俏皮话;讥讽;嘲弄;打趣
to make a quick and clever remark
柯林斯词典
- N-COUNT 俏皮话;谐语;妙语
Aquipis a remark that is intended to be amusing or clever.- The commentators make endless quips about the female players' appearance.
评论员们没完没了地拿女选手的容貌打趣。
- The commentators make endless quips about the female players' appearance.
- VERB 说俏皮话;口出妙语
Toquipmeans to say something that is intended to be amusing or clever.- 'He'll have to go on a diet,' Ballard quipped...
“他得减肥啦,”巴拉德俏皮地说。 - The chairman quipped that he would rather sell his airline than his computer systems.
主席风趣地说,他宁可卖掉他的航空公司,也不愿出售他的计算机系统。
- 'He'll have to go on a diet,' Ballard quipped...
英英释义
noun
verb
- make jokes or quips
- The students were gagging during dinner
双语例句
- The art of quip has always been the key of a novel, Fortress Besieged satirized all aspects of the social life centering by a clew on characters'activities.
讽刺艺术也是小说的一大亮点,《围城》以人物的活动为线索讽刺了社会生活的方方面面。 - Hearing Shentu Jia beat about the bush to quip him as a bad mirror, Zichan got angrier.
子产对申徒嘉拐弯抹角地骂自己不是一面好镜子,一时感到气愤难平。 - The quip that Mrs Merkel is the only politician who can stop Barack Obama being re-elected attests both to her power and to frustration over how she wields it.
有一种讽刺的说法,说默克尔是唯一可以阻止奥巴马再次当选的政治家。这一说法表明,她拥有超级大的权力,也证实了人们对她没有善用权力的失望。 - He ended his speech with a merry quip.
他以十分风趣的话结束了演讲。 - He agrees with Nouriel Roubini's variation of Paul Samuelson's quip: that the stock market has forecasted six out of the last zero recoveries.
他赞同鲁里埃尔鲁比尼(NourielRoubini)对保罗萨缪尔森(PaulSamuelson)的一句挖苦话的改编:过去的零次复苏中,股市预测出了六次。 - All executives walk a fine line between being collaborative and being the boss, but Burns 'quip resonates especially with women executives.
所有高管都能正确处理好作为协作者和作为老板之间的关系,但伯恩斯的话却引起了很多女性高管的共鸣。 - Europe, to repeat the quip of the day, had lost a mistress and gained a master.
再用当时的一句妙语来说,欧洲失去了一个主妇,却得到了一个主人。 - With the benefit of hindsight, his quip marked the high point of fiscal fine-tuning.
事后看来,这番话堪称财政政策的绝唱。 - A BBC spokesman said: During a live broadcast, Simon was caught unaware by a camera shot. He subsequently made a light-hearted quip about it on Twitter.
一名BBC发言人说:在直播现场,赛门没有意识到摄像机对着他,随后他推特上轻松地自嘲了一下。 - He appears once again with a ready quip.
他再次出场妙语脱口而出。