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

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。
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。
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。
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。
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。
It was a quip that got me thinking, because behavioural economics does indeed have a dark side.
这句一语双关的话让我深思，因为行为经济学的确有其黑暗面。
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。
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。
Free-market ideologues don't want governments to think at all; and Keynesians want governments to think only about the short run, because they take to an extreme John Maynard Keynes 'famous quip, In the long run we are all dead.
自由市场拥护者们可是一点也不希望政府能想的长远；凯恩斯主义者只希望政府思考短期内的问题&因为他们笃信凯恩斯的极端名言长期来看，我们都死了。