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
- 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。 - And he received applause for what may turn out to be a regrettable follow-up quip, when he said, I mean, damn man, I'm governor, could you shut up for a minute?
这句话为他赢得了一片掌声，不过他下面的嘲讽话语可能会让他后悔莫及，因为他说到：我是说，该死的，我是州长，你能闭嘴么？ - 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。 - Many entrepreneurs and managers often dream and quip of the endless business possibilities we would have if only we had the flexibility of a huge financial war chest at our disposal.
很多企业家和管理者经常梦想和自嘲假如我们有巨量的可支配资金的话，我们会有多么广大的商业机会。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - He ended his speech with a merry quip.
他以十分风趣的话结束了演讲。 - Though the quip holds as true today as it did in 1916 when Mr Getty first struck oil in Oklahoma, it is likely the oil man was thinking of his fellow industrialists as the inheritors.
虽然这句双关语在今天和1916年盖蒂在美国俄克拉荷马州开始开采石油时一样正确，但这位石油大亨很有可能将他的实业家同行视为继承者。