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单词

quip

读音
kwɪp
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释义

n. 妙语;嘲弄;讽刺语 vi. 嘲弄;讥讽 vt. 嘲弄 [ 复数 quips 第三人称单数 quips 现在分词 quipping 过去式 quipped 过去分词 quipped ]

例句

The doctors are not entirely sympathetic, "If there was a surgery to enlarge brains, we would offer him a free trial," they quip.
医生们并不太同情,他们讽刺说:“如果有个手术能使大脑变大的话,我们很愿意给他免费试用。”
Oh, that Ken Jennings, always quick with a quip.
噢,那个总是机敏而幽默的肯詹宁斯。
Oscar Wilde's quip now sounds hopelessly out of date.
奥斯卡·王尔德此言虽妙,而今听来却彻头彻尾过时了。

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You know, there was a time when artificial intelligence was a joke.I mean, literally a quip that you would hear at a cocktail partywhen somebody would bring it up in conversation:
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