quip

noun

1. 俏皮话；妙语
   a quick and clever remark
   1. to make a quip
      说俏皮话

verb

1. 讲俏皮话；讥讽；嘲弄；打趣
   to make a quick and clever remark

1. N-COUNT 俏皮话;谐语;妙语
   A quip is 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。
2. VERB 说俏皮话;口出妙语
   To quip means 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。

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。
2. 'He'll have to go on a diet,' Ballard quipped
   “他得减肥啦，”巴拉德俏皮地说。
3. 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。
4. All executives walk a fine line between being collaborative and being the boss, but Burns 'quip resonates especially with women executives.
   所有高管都能正确处理好作为协作者和作为老板之间的关系，但伯恩斯的话却引起了很多女性高管的共鸣。
5. Many entrepreneurs and managers often dream and quip of the endless business possibilities we would have if only we had the flexibility of a huge financial war chest at our disposal.
   很多企业家和管理者经常梦想和自嘲假如我们有巨量的可支配资金的话，我们会有多么广大的商业机会。
6. And he received applause for what may turn out to be a regrettable follow-up quip, when he said, I mean, damn man, I'm governor, could you shut up for a minute?
   这句话为他赢得了一片掌声，不过他下面的嘲讽话语可能会让他后悔莫及，因为他说到：我是说，该死的，我是州长，你能闭嘴么？
7. A BBC spokesman said: During a live broadcast, Simon was caught unaware by a camera shot. He subsequently made a light-hearted quip about it on Twitter.
   一名BBC发言人说：在直播现场，赛门没有意识到摄像机对着他，随后他推特上轻松地自嘲了一下。
8. Free-market ideologues don't want governments to think at all; and Keynesians want governments to think only about the short run, because they take to an extreme John Maynard Keynes 'famous quip, In the long run we are all dead.
   自由市场拥护者们可是一点也不希望政府能想的长远；凯恩斯主义者只希望政府思考短期内的问题&因为他们笃信凯恩斯的极端名言长期来看，我们都死了。
9. In 2013 several alternatives rose to challenge old-school business tech like Quip, a clever new word-processing app, or Box's collaboration software, Box Notes and I suspect this trend will continue this year.
   2013年，几个替代产品崛起，对传统的商业科技产品构成了挑战，比如一款巧妙的新文字处理应用Quip，或Box推出的协作软件BoxNotes。我猜这种趋势还将在今年持续。
10. 12.Bret Taylor, CEO, Quip: The former CTO of Facebook is now running a stealth startup.
    12.Quip公司CEO布雷特-泰勒（BretTaylor）：他曾是Facebook的首席技术官，现在经营着一家神秘的创业公司。
11. To modify the old quip, prediction is very difficult, even when it's not about the future.
    对老话改造一番就是：预测是非常困难的，即便不是预测未来。
12. This was his quip encapsulating his strong opposition to industrial policy.
    这是他强烈反对工业策略的说法。
13. If they can then, just possibly, the old quip will be shown to be wrong& and the future of fusion might actually arrive.
    如果这种尝试有可能成功的话，文章开头那句调侃之语就难以站得住脚了&核聚变的明天有可能真的会到来。
14. These days she is placing large bets on Brazilian bonds, leading to the quip that although Tokyo failed to secure the2016 Olympics, the Japanese will finance the games in Rio de Janeiro anyway.
    近来，她又正往巴西债券大量注入资金，因而有人戏称：尽管日本没有获得2016年奥运会的主办权，但势必要在里约热内卢资助一把奥运。
15. He ended his speech with a merry quip.
    他以十分风趣的话结束了演讲。
16. It was a quip that got me thinking, because behavioural economics does indeed have a dark side.
    这句一语双关的话让我深思，因为行为经济学的确有其黑暗面。
17. Though the quip holds as true today as it did in 1916 when Mr Getty first struck oil in Oklahoma, it is likely the oil man was thinking of his fellow industrialists as the inheritors.
    虽然这句双关语在今天和1916年盖蒂在美国俄克拉荷马州开始开采石油时一样正确，但这位石油大亨很有可能将他的实业家同行视为继承者。
18. Long gone are the days when a Nixon administration official could quip: The dollar may be our currency but it's your problem.
    曾几何时，尼克松政府官员可以讥讽地说：美元或许是我们的货币，但那是你们的问题。这种日子早已成为过去。
19. The art of quip has always been the key of a novel, Fortress Besieged satirized all aspects of the social life centering by a clew on characters'activities.
    讽刺艺术也是小说的一大亮点，《围城》以人物的活动为线索讽刺了社会生活的方方面面。
20. Hearing Shentu Jia beat about the bush to quip him as a bad mirror, Zichan got angrier.
    子产对申徒嘉拐弯抹角地骂自己不是一面好镜子，一时感到气愤难平。
21. He agrees with Nouriel Roubini's variation of Paul Samuelson's quip: that the stock market has forecasted six out of the last zero recoveries.
    他赞同鲁里埃尔鲁比尼（NourielRoubini）对保罗萨缪尔森（PaulSamuelson）的一句挖苦话的改编：过去的零次复苏中，股市预测出了六次。
22. He appears once again with a ready quip.
    他再次出场妙语脱口而出。
23. Bohr's quip summarizes one of the essential lessons of learning, which is that people learn how to get it right by getting it wrong again and again.
    波尔的说法总结了学习的必须一课，即人们从通过不断犯错学会如何做正确。
24. The quip that Mrs Merkel is the only politician who can stop Barack Obama being re-elected attests both to her power and to frustration over how she wields it.
    有一种讽刺的说法，说默克尔是唯一可以阻止奥巴马再次当选的政治家。这一说法表明，她拥有超级大的权力，也证实了人们对她没有善用权力的失望。
25. Indeed, some quip that PAG really stands for Please Ask the General.
    而实际上，有人讽刺说政策执行组织真正的行动准则是请问将军。
26. Most of us finding a colleague asleep at work would probably make a quip about laziness.
    如果发现有同事在上班时睡觉，我们中的大多数人可能都会嘲笑他们的懒惰。
27. With the benefit of hindsight, his quip marked the high point of fiscal fine-tuning.
    事后看来，这番话堪称财政政策的绝唱。
28. It was Oscar Wilde who made the famous quip about life, in the end, mimicking art.
    正是奥斯卡王尔德说出了关于生活的妙语&人生说到底是在师法艺术。
29. Their views seemed to echo Mahatma Gandhi's quip when asked what he thought about European civilisation. I think it would be a good idea, he replied.
    他们的观点似乎与圣雄甘地（MahatmaGandhi）的双关语如出一辙。当有人问甘地如何看待欧洲文明时，他回答道：我觉得这是个不错的主意。
30. 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。

noun

1. witty remark

   Synonym:    wisecrackcracksally

2. a witty saying

   Synonym:    epigram

verb

1. make jokes or quips
   1. The students were gagging during dinner

   Synonym:    gag