quip

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。

Isaacs adds that Palin threw in a bit of French with a quick quip of "Merci beaucoup" while leaving one of the centers.

萨克斯还说，佩林法国扔在一个位与中心的快速妙语“谢谢博库”的同时使之一。

As I quip in Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids, "No one asks to be born, but almost everyone would if he could. "

正如我在《儿女满堂的自私原因》中笑谈：“没有人要求降生，但如果可以要求的话，几乎所有人都希望这样。”

In characteristic style he did so with a politically incorrect quip that drew criticism even from his supporters.

贝卢斯科尼先生以特有的方式抛出一句不正确的隽语，从而招来甚至是他的支持者的批评。

Ms. Merkel responded with a quip of her own: 'And you could look after marketing. '

默克尔用自己的妙语回应道，你可以负责市场营销。

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。”

leading Hobbes to quip that she "Did bring forth Twins at once, both Me, and Fear. "

霍布斯后来戏称她“真的生了双胞胎，我和恐惧”

was the quip Vatican aides say he scrawled on a piece of paper after he woke up following surgery to ease his breathing problems.

是梵谛冈助理们说教宗在缓和呼吸问题的手术完醒来后，在一张纸上潦草写出的俏皮话。

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。

My advice is to ride it out , make an occasional smart- aleck quip .

我的意见就是出去旅行，并时不时地说些自作聪明的俏皮话。

Then crisis hit, lending weight to the quip "What you see is what you get; what you don't see gets you. "

当危机出现时，有句借贷负担的妙语“你看到什么你就能得到什么；你看不到的还是会让你看到。”

BJP parliamentarians quip that Mr Singh seems such a liability for Congress they are anxious lest he resign.

人民党议员开玩笑说，辛格先生对国大党负有重大责任，要是他辞职，他们可就担心死了。

But the bottom line, Mr Hayward: whatever else you do, resist the urge to quip "oil's well that ends well. "

但是唐熙华先生，不论你做什么，底线是你得忍住嘲弄“油好，一切都好”的冲动。

The quip has gained a frightening new relevance ahead of a "great leap forward" to an economic union that can keep the markets at bay.

这句俏皮话把可能阻止市场制造更多麻烦的经济联盟和“大跃进”联系了起来。

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”。

I had it in mind last week when I happened upon a relevant quip by Wallace Shawn on the Time Web site.

上周我读到华莱士·肖恩在时代杂志网站上的一句妙语时，就想起了这句话。

SELDOM has Harold Wilson's quip about a week being a long time in politics seemed more apt.

哈罗德•威尔逊的名言——从政治的角度来看，一个星期是一段长时间——用在此时似乎再贴切不过。

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。

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。

Oilman John Paul Getty's quip that "the meek shall inherit the Earth, but not its mineral rights" clearly translates well into Mandarin.

石油人约翰•保罗•盖蒂（JohnPaulGetty）的名言“温顺者终将继承地球，但他们拿不到矿产权利”显然可以轻易地翻译成汉语。