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　

GRE TEM8

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

This was his quip encapsulating his strong opposition to industrial policy.
这是他强烈反对工业策略的说法。
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。
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。
He ended his speech with a merry quip.
他以十分风趣的话结束了演讲。
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。
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。
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。
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。
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。
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。