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。
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。
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。
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。
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。
Long gone are the days when a Nixon administration official could quip: The dollar may be our currency but it's your problem.
曾几何时，尼克松政府官员可以讥讽地说：美元或许是我们的货币，但那是你们的问题。这种日子早已成为过去。
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。
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。
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。
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。