| 词组 | quip |
| 释义 | quip Bremner 1980 and Copperud 1970, 1980 find fault with the way newspaper journalists use the verb quip to point out that some remark that looks dull in print sounded pretty funny at the time. This use is by no means limited to the daily papers: • This moving little speech is even more of a success than the music, which, after all, as I.S. quips, "was half-Tchaikovsky ... and half Rimsky-Korsakov ..." —Robert Craft, Stravinsky, 1972 • In 1961, when Hirt estimated that he would clear about $200,000, he quipped, "I've already called off the elopement drills for my daughters." —Current Biography, February 1967 • "We're just a small company," he quips —Alvin A. Butkus, Dun's, October 1971 • "Just enough to put him on easy street," she quipped, to his relief —James Purdy, Cabot Wright Begins, 1964 You probably need to have been there. |
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