to make a quip
说俏皮话
1.妙语;好笑的话
2.讥讽,挖苦话
3.奇行;怪物,好笑的东西
4.遁辞
1.妙语;好笑的话
2.讥讽,挖苦话
3.奇行;怪物,好笑的东西
4.遁辞
1.讥讽,嘲弄
2.讥讽
3.讲妙语[双关语等]
1.a funny or clever remark
1.to say something funny or clever
1.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。
2.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。
3.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。”
4."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。
5."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。
6."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。
7.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。
8.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。”
9."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。
10.'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。