witticism

英 [ˈwɪtɪsɪzəm]

美 [ˈwɪtɪsɪzəm]

n.  妙语; 俏皮话; 诙谐语

复数：witticisms　

GRE

BNC.34066 / COCA.28208

牛津词典

noun

• 妙语；俏皮话；诙谐语
  a clever and amusing remark

柯林斯词典

• 妙语;俏皮话;诙谐话
  Awitticismis a witty remark or joke.

英英释义

noun

• a message whose ingenuity or verbal skill or incongruity has the power to evoke laughter
  Synonym:withumorhumourwittiness

双语例句

• The witticism is widely used by the people, not only due to its own feature, but also to meet people's social psychologies such as pursuing pleasure, imitating, and running after the novelty.
  俏皮话被人们广泛使用，除其自身特点外，主要与人们追求轻松愉悦环境的心理、模仿心理、求新求异心理等社会心理有关。
• Can a robot interject a witticism or bon mot that adroitly lightens the mood?
  机器人能像我们一样谈笑风生、妙语连珠地让气氛活跃起来吗？
• Ever since Tang and Song dynasties, Chinese classical poetry has confronted with contradiction and entanglement of witticism and poetry rhyme.
  唐宋以后，中国古典诗学在范古问题上形成了“诗法”与“妙悟”两条路线的对立与纠结。
• The witticism, as a kind of commonly used humorous language form by the people, has obvious feature of the humorous pragmatic effect through the discord in word meaning and expression form.
  俏皮话作为一种人们常用的幽默语言形式，其特点明显。它往往通过语义的不和谐和语言表达模式的不和谐表达出俏皮幽默的语用效果。
• Witticism and Poetry Rhyme& Development of classical poetry theory since Tang and Song dynasties
  妙悟与诗法&试论唐宋以来古典诗歌理论的发展
• The Don nodded his head pleasantly, acknowledging the flattering witticism and its truth.
  老爷子高兴地点了点头，承认了这个巧话并且承认了这个事实。
• It was a simple idea, but my grandfather told it to the family as if it were a brilliant witticism.
  这是一个简单的想法，但是我的外祖父把它当成一句妙趣横生的话告诉了家里人。
• His witticism was as sharp as a marble. vapid utterances, remarks, comments, etc
  他的打趣话十分枯燥无味。枯燥无味的话语、言语、评语等
• But this is a witticism, not the truth.
  但这不过是一句俏皮话，并非事实。
• Once in a while, after some witticism, he would look down, and his eyes would meet hers.
  每隔一小会儿，说了什么俏皮话以后，他就低下头，和她目光相交。