quip

过去式：

动词过去式: quipped

更多词形：

形容词: quippy | 动词过去式: quipped | 动词过去分词: quipped | 动词现在分词: quipping | 动词第三人称单数: quips |

单词例句：

The doctors are not entirely sympathetic: “If there was a surgery to enlarge brains, we would offer him a free trial,” they quip.

医生们并不太同情这个家伙，他们讽刺说：“如果有个手术能加大脑瓜的话，我们很愿意给他免费试用。”

Harry, characteristically, prefers to lighten the tension with a sarcastic quip.

而哈利喜欢用开玩笑来减轻压力。

Europe, to repeat the quip of the day, had lost a mistress and gained a master.

再用当时的一句妙语来说，欧洲失去了一个主妇，却得到了一个主人。

For example, if a grandparent offers a picture of a grandchild, we'll often counter with either a picture of our own or a quip about doting grandparents, hoping to put an end to our discomfort.

若有祖父母展示孙儿的照片，我们便立刻以自己的回敬，或语带双关地批评溺爱孙儿的祖父母，以致我们不必再勉为其难听下去。

quip n.

妙语；双关语；

I think that maybe take my romantic sensibility a little far. Because of love, I must go away. It'd be just a quip in itself.

我的情感就如我电脑里的文档，杂乱、等待处理，我必须学会清理，删除一些不必要的东西，才能重新写入新的。

If it chanced to attract a girl of sixteen like Lin Pei-shan -lively, innocent, and free from worldly cares-it was simply because of its well-shaped lips, always parted in a mysterious smile and always ready with an amusing quip.

然而假使也能够博得活泼天真不知世上有愁苦的十五六岁少女们的喜欢，那是因为在这脸上还有很会说俏皮话的两片薄嘴唇，常常是似笑非笑地嘻开着。

One of them, after the end of a lovely dinner, made a quip to me that reverberates 60 years later.

在愉快晚餐的最后时候，他们其中一个对我说了一句双关语，即使60年后它仍然在我脑海中回荡。

So, when do I start? A slightly obnoxious quip Don't invite yourself into the job.

那我什么时候来上班?问得妙,但有点招人讨厌.不要不请自来.