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

• 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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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？
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Hearing Shentu Jia beat about the bush to quip him as a bad mirror, Zichan got angrier.
  子产对申徒嘉拐弯抹角地骂自己不是一面好镜子，一时感到气愤难平。