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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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

• witty remark
  Synonym:wisecrackcracksally
• a witty saying
  Synonym:epigram

verb

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

双语例句

• Free-market ideologues don't want governments to think at all; and Keynesians want governments to think only about the short run, because they take to an extreme John Maynard Keynes 'famous quip, In the long run we are all dead.
  自由市场拥护者们可是一点也不希望政府能想的长远；凯恩斯主义者只希望政府思考短期内的问题&因为他们笃信凯恩斯的极端名言长期来看，我们都死了。
• 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。
• He ended his speech with a merry quip.
  他以十分风趣的话结束了演讲。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• To modify the old quip, prediction is very difficult, even when it's not about the future.
  对老话改造一番就是：预测是非常困难的，即便不是预测未来。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。