jests

英 [dʒests]

美 [dʒests]

n.  笑话; 俏皮话; 打趣; 玩笑
v.  开玩笑; 说笑话
jest的第三人称单数和复数

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 笑话；打趣；玩笑
  Ajestis something that you say that is intended to be amusing.
  1. It was a jest rather than a reproach...
     这与其说是责备，还不如说是句玩笑呢。
  2. The men talk as cheerfully as ever; jests are bandied about freely.
     男人们像往常一样高兴地聊着，彼此间随意开着玩笑。
• VERB 说笑话；开玩笑；打趣
  If youjest, you tell jokes or say amusing things.
  1. He enjoyed drinking and jesting with his cronies...
     他喜欢和老朋友喝喝酒、开开玩笑。
  2. A newspaper half jested: Had alcohol not already killed him, this would surely drive him to drink.
     一份报纸半开玩笑地写道：要不是喝酒已经要了他的命，这肯定会让他想要喝上一杯。

双语例句

• What does it matter, he jests, if we watch football, drink beer and wolf down ice cream instead of reading Joyce?
  看足球、喝啤酒、享用冰淇淋，不看乔伊斯，有什么大不了的吗？
• The men talk as cheerfully as ever; jests are bandied about freely.
  男人们像往常一样高兴地聊着，彼此间随意开着玩笑。
• He jests at scars that never felt a wound.
  没有受过伤的人才会讥笑别人身上的创痕。
• Their jests made everyone laugh.
  他们说的俏皮话逗得大家哈哈大笑。
• Such cybernetic jests would probably be even funnier than when cracked by a human being, especially the ones I know.
  这些在电脑控制下讲出的笑话甚至可能比人类讲出来的更好笑，尤其是与我知道的笑话相比。
• Mary always jests about her feelings towards him.
  玛丽总是拿她对他的感情开玩笑。
• No Merry Andrew, to stir up the multitude with jests, perhaps hundreds of years old, but still effective, by their appeals to the very broadest sources of mirthful sympathy.
  “也没有逗得大家哄堂大笑的”快乐的安德鲁“说那些由于笑料选出、虽已流传上百年、仍让人百听不厌的笑话。