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

• 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。
• 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。
• 'He'll have to go on a diet,' Ballard quipped
  “他得减肥啦，”巴拉德俏皮地说。
• 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？
• 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。
• Bohr's quip summarizes one of the essential lessons of learning, which is that people learn how to get it right by getting it wrong again and again.
  波尔的说法总结了学习的必须一课，即人们从通过不断犯错学会如何做正确。
• 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。
• 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。
• Indeed, some quip that PAG really stands for Please Ask the General.
  而实际上，有人讽刺说政策执行组织真正的行动准则是请问将军。
• 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。