wisecracks

英 [ˈwaɪzkræks]

美 [ˈwaɪzkræks]

n.  俏皮话; 风凉话
wisecrack的复数

柯林斯词典

• 俏皮话;风凉话
  Awisecrackis a clever remark that is intended to be amusing, but is often rather unkind.

双语例句

• For example, in the presidential election last year, both Al Gore and George W. Bush tried to shed their wooden image by making wisecracks before their voters.
  比如说，去年的总统选举中，戈尔和布什都努力摆脱木讷的形象，拼命恶补在选民面前搞笑的本领。
• We can learn much from wise words, little from wisecracks, and less from wise guys.
  我们可以从智慧之语学得很多，从俏皮话学的一丁点，而从聪明人处学得更少。
• I don't think Linda appreciated my wisecracks.
  我看琳达好像不怎么喜欢我的俏皮话。
• I spent the rest of the day at my desk, leg elevated, ice bag dripping, fielding wisecracks from co-workers.
  那天，剩下的时间里我保持平放着一条腿的姿势坐在桌前，拿冰袋冷敷，成为同事们的玩笑靶子。
• The conversation then veered into a hilarious account of his golf game with Donald Trump, in which two flamboyant entrepreneurs vied to see who could most unnerve the other with unrepeatable wisecracks.
  随后，交谈的内容转到了他与唐纳德•特朗普之间有趣的高尔夫比赛，两位个性鲜明的企业家都力图用俏皮话来让对方退缩。
• Habitual expressions, set phrases, proverbs, maxims and wisecracks all belong to idiomatic expressions, the grammatical structures of which differ from ordinary usage with disagreement in integrated and literal meanings.
  惯用语是与成语、谚语、格言、歇后语并列的，语法结构不同于通常的语言习惯，或整体意义不同于字面意义的熟语。
• With the deepening of the communication between China and foreign countries, The English translation of Chinese Folk Wisecracks has become the topic in which translation domestic scholars interested.
  随着中外交流的不断深入，歇后语的英译也成为了国内不少学者感兴趣的内容之一。
• Maybe we could live without the wisecracks.
  要是不说俏皮话没准我们能一起生活。
• I'm trying not to let their wisecracks about my age get to me, but I am having a hard time getting them to take me seriously as their boss.
  我努力不让他们拿我的年龄开玩笑，并影响到我。但是，要想让他们真正把我当老板看待，我的确有些力不从心。
• In the midst of all this the comebacks, the wisecracks, the flapping mouth I had a dim idea of what I was doing.
  从所有这些反驳、俏皮话、耍嘴皮里面，我对我的所作所为有了一个模糊的概念。