1.~ (on sth)双关语the clever or humorous use of a word that has more than one meaning, or of words that have different meanings but sound the same
We're banking on them lending us the money─no pun intended!我们正指望他们借给我们钱呢 —bank 绝无双关之意!
1.[i]使用双关语to make a pun
The parallel (pun intended! ) between the two technologies is largely due to the compositional nature of the latter.
两个技术之间的相似(绝对不是故意的!)主要是由于后者的复合性质。
And if anyone's ever had severe constipation, and you don't understand how much of an impact that has on your life, yes that was a pun.
所以,如果有人有过严重的便秘,并且你不知道这会给你的生活带来什么样的影响,是的,那是一个双关语。
Being able to properly validate and ensure that this attribute's value is always present can be invaluable (no pun intended).
能够正确验证并确保存在属性值是非常重要的(避免出现双关语)。
Some sort of pun on the word 'tracks' may be intended.
可能作者一语双关,用火车暗指“轨迹”。
However certain advertisers do not always transfer their intents directly, but in some indirect ways, and one of them is pun.
但是很多广告却常常不直接表达所要传递的信息,而是通过间接的方式来表达,双关语就是其中之一。
Quoting the chairman, Pun said his party would not copy any other model of democracy but would establish a unique system suitable to Nepal.
皮恩引用普拉昌达的话说,他们党不会照抄其它任何形式的民主,而会建立一种专门适合尼泊尔的制度。
(L) Was that a little bit of a pun?
(笑声)(L)那是不是有点一语双关?
It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics).
最初设计给单一的使用者(名称是早期操作系统Multics的谐音)。
A pun is commonly used in advertisements of one of the rhetoric, so the translation of a pun on advertising, is important.
双关语是广告中常用的修辞手法之一,因此广告双关语的翻译就尤为重要。
A pun is the lowest form of humour- when you do not think of it first.
幽默的最低级的形式——当你不是头一个想到他的时候。
In the rhetoric used in parables, pun, match, dual, parallelism, repeated, quotes, and parody, exaggeration, contrast and means of contrast.
在修辞方面运用比喻、双关、比拟、对偶、排比、反复、引用和仿拟、夸张、对比与反衬等手段。
Read on to see (pun intended) how you can get Stealth Healthy protection for your peepers.
继续读来了解你怎样使你的同辈人得到暗中的健康保护。
I thought I would try it out and at least get some kind of exposure, pardon the pun.
我想我应该试试,至少可以暴露一下自己(双关语)。
We keep part of the commandment and (pardon the pun) never rise high enough to get our tails off the ground.
我们只遵从部分戒律,因此永远不会飞得足够高,使尾巴远离地面。
A semitransparent pun is characterized by an explicit hinge (usually a polyseme) by which two meanings are activated.
透明双关的双重意义由两个显性铰链激发而成。
The writer O. Henry was famous for surprise endings, not wordplay, though a pun could be considered a surprise ending for a sentence.
作家欧﹒亨利以写出出人意料的结局而著称,并非得名于文字游戏,虽然双关语也可看做是一句话的意外结尾。{##**$$}
Did you think the professor's pun was genuinely funny or did you laugh just to play up to him ?
你认为教授的双关语确实好笑呢,还是你发笑只是为了迎合他?。
But as strong as this team looks on paper, it doesn't take a rocket scientist (no pun intended) to see how fragile it is internally.
但是理论上这只球队如此强大,火箭专家却称它内在是那么脆弱。
Im an 80s kid and The Smiths were one of my bands, but the titles not supposed to be a clever pun.
我是个80年代的年轻人,TheSmiths是我常听的乐队之一,但这歌名并不是个聪明的双关语。
The pun translation is always difficult; even some people consider puns as untranslatable.
双关语的翻译历来困难,有人甚至认为它是不可译的。
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