quipped

英 [kwɪpt]

美 [kwɪpt]

v.  讲俏皮话; 讥讽; 嘲弄; 打趣
quip的过去分词和过去式

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

• Some quipped that someone should forward the memo to all the foreigners arriving in sweat pants and flip flops.
  一些人嘲弄说，应该把这个小册子转发给所有穿着运动裤和人字拖来北京的外国人。
• When Franklin quipped that "No nation was ever ruined by trade," he likely meant it as an understatement.
  当富兰克林讽刺“没有国家曾经被贸易所毁灭”的时候，他很可能认为这是一个借口（掩饰）。
• George Bernard Shaw once quipped that Americans and the English were separated by the same language.
  肖伯纳曾讥讽说，美国人和英国人被同一种语言隔开了。
• Sorry, but that's one thing I cannot do!'he quipped, bursting into a guffaw.
  “对不起，但那是我不会做的事之一！”他嘲讽地说，引发一阵大笑。
• If I'd known I was going to live here, I'd have done a better job, he quipped in an interview with the Financial Times last year.
  如果我当时知道自己以后将住在这里，可能会把它造得更好，去年他接受英国《金融时报》采访时开玩笑说道。
• But Kim Jong-il later quipped that he was joking.
  然而随后金正日改口称，自己当时只是在开玩笑。
• "Most of the time, I don't have very much fun, and the rest of the time I have no fun at all," quipped director Woody Allen.
  “大多数时候，我没有多开心，其余时间我毫无乐趣可言。”导演伍迪？艾伦风趣地说。
• ( We're all drunks here, he quipped. We write references for other drunks.) Or was it the quiet intellectual German down the table?
  （我们这儿每个人都是醉汉，他打趣道，我们来写参考资料给其他醉汉看。）或者桌子那头那位安静的德国文化人？
• 'Because like all successful singers, I knew it would only be a matter of time before I would overreach and try acting,' he quipped.
  他自嘲地说道：像所有成功的歌手一样，我知道我总有一天会跨行去拍戏，这只不过是个时间问题。
• "I'm really happy to be on a show that has a theme song," quipped Kim.
  “我很高兴我能出演一部有主题曲的电视剧，”金开玩笑说。