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 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。
• This negotiating the Contract phase from a "bent over" position, as Block quips, teaches the client that you work in a bent over position!
  正像Block讽刺的那样，以“折腰”的姿态来协商合约，客户在此阶段也会知道咨询师确实是处在一个“弯腰”的位置上，从而对咨询师“要挟”。
• 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。）
• "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。
• 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。
• Quips such as "it's only a machine gun" when asked if you are carrying any dangerous goods will not be tolerated.
  当问及是否携带任何危险物品，若开玩笑回答：「只有一把机关枪」，也不获容许。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• There were times when he came off really bad, but overall, you got the gamut of Shaq quips and one-liners* from the "I'm a big goofy kid" quotes to the intimidating serious smack-talking.
  接下来也有姚明表现非常差的那种片段，但总体上，你看到了鲨克的妙语连珠，然后便是诸如“我是一个傻大个”之类的言论。