quips

英 [kwɪps]

美 [kwɪps]

n.  俏皮话; 妙语
v.  讲俏皮话; 讥讽; 嘲弄; 打趣
quip的第三人称单数和复数

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。

双语例句

• It seems likely the next chief will come from further afield ( although Mr Scott quips: We're looking for someone from Booneville – a small town in Arkansas).
  似乎有可能下一任首席执行官将来自更远的地方。（不过斯科特开玩笑说：我们正在物色来自从本内维尔的人。本内维尔是阿肯色州的一个小镇。）
• Don't worry, he's still full of one-liners and quips.
  别担心，他仍然满嘴俏皮话一针见血。
• Memorizing such little quips ensures that you don't get overcharged for that snake sandwich you ordered, and you know where to go when Mother Nature ( or the snake sandwich) calls.
  记住这些简短的日常用语可以确保别人不会对您定购的三明治要价太高，并且在需要上厕所的时候，您知道该去何处。
• Hardly Us Weekly fodder. "'Mad Men'will never make the cover," Min quips.
  “广告狂人永远不会成为封面，”闵打趣道。
• I'm not getting younger, so before it's too late I want to make love in Venice, trade quips at'21,'and exchange coy glances over red wine and candlelight.
  我不再年轻，所以在一切晚矣之前我想要在威尼斯做爱，在“21餐厅”妙语连珠，还要在红酒和烛光之间眉来眼去。
• "They don't say,'Damn, we put that woman on board, now we can't go fishing, '" quips financial journalist Terry Savage, the first and only woman on the board of McDonald's Corp.
  男人正在开始习惯于有在运行的地板上的力量女人，而且一些会议室也是。
• There is such an abundance of rude questions and people who ask them that you could spend all day thinking of answers and quips.
  这里有很多粗鲁的问题-人们会问到的-你可能得花一整天冥思苦想答案。
• 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。
• The only frictionless part of Web commerce, he quips, is people clicking away from a site they don't like.
  他开玩笑说，电子商务惟一通行无阻之处就是人们可以一点鼠标就离开一个不喜欢的网站。
• It was almost primeval, my friend quips.
  我的一个朋友打趣道：这简直就像回到了原始时代。