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
- 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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？