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

• ( 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？
• ` Who overslept this morning? 'She quipped.
  ‘今天早晨谁睡过头了？’她风趣地问。
• When asked why, he once quipped more suppliers means more competition and better service for the customer.
  有一次人家问他为什么娶俩，他调侃地说：供应商更多就意味着竞争更激烈，为客户提供的服务更好。
• Be quipped by me that is also hidden mermaid in home?
  被我打趣道，呀，家里还藏着美人鱼呀。
• '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。
• In fact, it was 20 years ago that Bill Gates quipped that Retail banks are dinosaurs.
  实际上，早在20年前，比尔o盖茨就曾不无讥讽地说过，零售银行业是堪称恐龙的老古董。
• 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）。
• "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。
• "With all the money that we owe China, I think you might correctly say, Hu's your daddy," she quipped.
  “由于我们欠中国的所有的那些钱，我想我们可以非常恰当的说，胡就是你爹。”她打趣到。
• 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。