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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 

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Collins.1 / BNC.19574 / COCA.13578

牛津词典

    noun

    • 俏皮话;妙语
      a quick and clever remark
      1. to make a quip
        说俏皮话

    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.
        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。

      英英释义

      noun

      verb

      • make jokes or quips
        1. The students were gagging during dinner
        Synonym:gag

      双语例句

      • It was a quip that got me thinking, because behavioural economics does indeed have a dark side.
        这句一语双关的话让我深思,因为行为经济学的确有其黑暗面。
      • 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。
      • If they can then, just possibly, the old quip will be shown to be wrong& and the future of fusion might actually arrive.
        如果这种尝试有可能成功的话,文章开头那句调侃之语就难以站得住脚了&核聚变的明天有可能真的会到来。
      • 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。
      • 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。
      • These days she is placing large bets on Brazilian bonds, leading to the quip that although Tokyo failed to secure the2016 Olympics, the Japanese will finance the games in Rio de Janeiro anyway.
        近来,她又正往巴西债券大量注入资金,因而有人戏称:尽管日本没有获得2016年奥运会的主办权,但势必要在里约热内卢资助一把奥运。
      • 12.Bret Taylor, CEO, Quip: The former CTO of Facebook is now running a stealth startup.
        12.Quip公司CEO布雷特-泰勒(BretTaylor):他曾是Facebook的首席技术官,现在经营着一家神秘的创业公司。
      • It was Oscar Wilde who made the famous quip about life, in the end, mimicking art.
        正是奥斯卡王尔德说出了关于生活的妙语&人生说到底是在师法艺术。
      • Their views seemed to echo Mahatma Gandhi's quip when asked what he thought about European civilisation. I think it would be a good idea, he replied.
        他们的观点似乎与圣雄甘地(MahatmaGandhi)的双关语如出一辙。当有人问甘地如何看待欧洲文明时,他回答道:我觉得这是个不错的主意。
      • 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。