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
- 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。 - In 2013 several alternatives rose to challenge old-school business tech like Quip, a clever new word-processing app, or Box's collaboration software, Box Notes and I suspect this trend will continue this year.
2013年，几个替代产品崛起，对传统的商业科技产品构成了挑战，比如一款巧妙的新文字处理应用Quip，或Box推出的协作软件BoxNotes。我猜这种趋势还将在今年持续。 - 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。 - Long gone are the days when a Nixon administration official could quip: The dollar may be our currency but it's your problem.
曾几何时，尼克松政府官员可以讥讽地说：美元或许是我们的货币，但那是你们的问题。这种日子早已成为过去。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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 ended his speech with a merry quip.
他以十分风趣的话结束了演讲。 - 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。