quipped

英 [kwɪpt]

美 [kwɪpt]

v.  讲俏皮话; 讥讽; 嘲弄; 打趣
quip的过去分词和过去式

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.
  1. 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。
• VERB 说俏皮话;口出妙语
  Toquipmeans to say something that is intended to be amusing or clever.
  1. 'He'll have to go on a diet,' Ballard quipped...
     “他得减肥啦，”巴拉德俏皮地说。
  2. 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。

双语例句

• If I'd known I was going to live here, I'd have done a better job, he quipped in an interview with the Financial Times last year.
  如果我当时知道自己以后将住在这里，可能会把它造得更好，去年他接受英国《金融时报》采访时开玩笑说道。
• ( We're all drunks here, he quipped. We write references for other drunks.) Or was it the quiet intellectual German down the table?
  （我们这儿每个人都是醉汉，他打趣道，我们来写参考资料给其他醉汉看。）或者桌子那头那位安静的德国文化人？
• ` Who overslept this morning? 'She quipped.
  ‘今天早晨谁睡过头了？’她风趣地问。
• Sorry, but that's one thing I cannot do!'he quipped, bursting into a guffaw.
  “对不起，但那是我不会做的事之一！”他嘲讽地说，引发一阵大笑。
• When asked why, he once quipped more suppliers means more competition and better service for the customer.
  有一次人家问他为什么娶俩，他调侃地说：供应商更多就意味着竞争更激烈，为客户提供的服务更好。
• 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
  “他得减肥啦，”巴拉德俏皮地说。
• "Most of the time, I don't have very much fun, and the rest of the time I have no fun at all," quipped director Woody Allen.
  “大多数时候，我没有多开心，其余时间我毫无乐趣可言。”导演伍迪？艾伦风趣地说。
• George Bernard Shaw once quipped that Americans and the English were separated by the same language.
  肖伯纳曾讥讽说，美国人和英国人被同一种语言隔开了。
• "I'm surrounded by a group of people that are breaking up fast and furiously and they were the ones ready to talk to me," she quipped.
  “我被一群分手速度很快、很冲动的人所包围，而他们也准备好了跟我对话。”她嘲弄道。