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

• 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。
• 'He'll have to go on a diet,' Ballard quipped
  “他得减肥啦，”巴拉德俏皮地说。
• Most of us finding a colleague asleep at work would probably make a quip about laziness.
  如果发现有同事在上班时睡觉，我们中的大多数人可能都会嘲笑他们的懒惰。
• 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。
• 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。
• All executives walk a fine line between being collaborative and being the boss, but Burns 'quip resonates especially with women executives.
  所有高管都能正确处理好作为协作者和作为老板之间的关系，但伯恩斯的话却引起了很多女性高管的共鸣。
• 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。
• 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。
• Many entrepreneurs and managers often dream and quip of the endless business possibilities we would have if only we had the flexibility of a huge financial war chest at our disposal.
  很多企业家和管理者经常梦想和自嘲假如我们有巨量的可支配资金的话，我们会有多么广大的商业机会。