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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

      • 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。
      • 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。
      • 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。
      • 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。
      • 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。
      • This was his quip encapsulating his strong opposition to industrial policy.
        这是他强烈反对工业策略的说法。
      • He appears once again with a ready quip.
        他再次出场妙语脱口而出。
      • 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。
      • 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。
      • 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。