1.俏皮话;妙语a quick and clever remark
to make a quip说俏皮话
1.+ speech讲俏皮话;讥讽;嘲弄;打趣to make a quick and clever remark
In the long run we are all dead, as John Maynard Keynes memorably quipped, but humanity could at least get something out of it.
很久以后,我们都会死去,但是就如约翰·梅纳德·凯恩斯(JohnMaynardKeynes)所说的那样,人类至少能从中得到些什么。
The problem was that McGovern began to talk at 2: 48 a. m. , or prime time in Samoa, as the humorist Mark Shields quipped.
问题是,麦戈文到了凌晨2点48分才开始演讲,按照幽默作家马克.谢尔德的说法,那是萨摩亚的黄金时间。
George Bernard Shaw once quipped that "the British soldier can stand up to anything except the British War Office. "
萧伯纳曾经戏谑,“英国士兵什么都不怕,就怕陆军部。”
"It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information, " quipped Oscar Wilde in 1894. He did not know the half of it.
“这是一件很悲哀的事——如今几乎没有无用的信息,”奥斯卡-王尔德在1894年俏语道。他并不知道其中另外一半的意思。
"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。
"By the time I wake up, I'll have an email from AARP asking me to call President Obama and tell him to protect Medicare, " he quipped.
“当我起床的时候,我将会收到AARP(美国退休人员协会)发来的电子邮件,要求我给奥巴马总统打电话并告诉他保护老年保健医疗制度”他说着俏皮话。
On the bright side, "hot yoga might be one of the things you don't have to pay for there, " she quipped.
好的一面就是,“在那儿你也许不用再为高温瑜伽付费了”她开玩笑地说。
Genevieve smiled broadly and quipped, 'He never found out. I made another cake and ate half of that too. '
吉纳维芙开心地笑了起来,并说起了俏皮话,“他不会发现,我又做了另外一个蛋糕,并也吃了一半。”
"If something had happened to you [Messi] in that match, I'd have been shot - you know where, " he quipped.
“如果你[梅西]在这场比赛中出了什么事,我就像是被子弹射中一样——你知道是射在哪里。”他半开玩笑地说。
'Those of you interested in starting a business, an art gallery might be interesting, ' quipped Mr. Lo.
Lo开玩笑地说,那些对创业有兴趣的人,投资画廊或许值得一试。
As the French man of letters Francois Mauriac quipped, "I love Germany so much I'm glad there are two of them. "
法国作家弗朗索瓦·莫里亚克(FrancoisMauriac)调侃地写道:“我如此喜欢德国,真高兴现在有了两个”。
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。
The emir of Qatar is said to have quipped of his longstanding ally: "I may run this country, but he owns it. "
据称,卡塔尔的埃米尔曾拿这位长期盟友打趣说:“也许是我在管理这个国家,但他拥有这个国家。”
Reached by the Guardian, Pullman quipped that he was "very glad to be back in the top 10 banned books" .
在《卫报》的一次电话采访中,普尔曼不无讽刺的说他“很高兴又回到了十大禁书首位。”
Arden quipped: "I judge a woman and a horse by the same criteria: legs, head and rear end. "
雅顿俏皮地说:“我评判一个女人和一匹马的标准是一样的:腿,头和臀部。”
One of them, Jon Huntsman, quipped that he mistook it for the price of a pizza.
洪博培就讽刺说他误把这当成了披萨的价格。
"I said there would never be a Nexus 2, " Schmidt quipped. "Nothing about a Nexus S. "
“我说过不会有Nexus2,”施密特打趣道,“也没有NexusS的消息。”
Huxley quipped to physicist John Tyndall, "For once, reality and his brain came into contact and the result was fatal. "
赫胥黎对物理学家丁铎尔(JohnTyndall)打趣道:「他的脑袋总算与真实世界有了接触,不过结果却是致命的。」
For theorists, he quipped, "measuring w . . . is therefore not going to tell us anything we don't know already. "
对于理论学家,他打趣道,“所以测量W……不会让我们比目前知道的更多。”
Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo, the former chief executive of Nokia, quipped that Chipchase was the company's Indiana Jones.
诺基亚的前任首席执行官Olli-PekkaKallasvuo打趣说奇普蔡斯是公司的印第安纳琼斯。
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