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

• 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。
• He agrees with Nouriel Roubini's variation of Paul Samuelson's quip: that the stock market has forecasted six out of the last zero recoveries.
  他赞同鲁里埃尔鲁比尼（NourielRoubini）对保罗萨缪尔森（PaulSamuelson）的一句挖苦话的改编：过去的零次复苏中，股市预测出了六次。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。