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

• 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？
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。