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

• 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。
• 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。
• "I'm surrounded by a group of people that are breaking up fast and furiously and they were the ones ready to talk to me," she quipped.
  “我被一群分手速度很快、很冲动的人所包围，而他们也准备好了跟我对话。”她嘲弄道。
• Building on Franklin's wisdom ( he also once quipped," Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days"), here are10 tips to keep your UNIX systems humming.
  根据富兰克林的名言（他也说过这样的妙语，“客人就像鱼，三天就发臭”），作者为系统管理员总结出10条保持UNIX系统正常工作的提示。
• 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。
• '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。
• 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。
• 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）。
• No, this is not scotch or rum, he quipped.
  不对，这不是威士忌或朗姆酒，他打趣地说。
• 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。