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单词 jape
释义
japejape /dʒeɪp/ noun [countable] British English old-fashioned Word Origin
WORD ORIGINjape
Origin:
1300-1400 jape ‘to joke, make fun of someone’ (14-20 centuries), from Old French japer ‘to cry out like a dog’
Examples
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  • But although many pirates see it all as a jolly jape, people in the software business are getting worried.
  • But even a schoolboy's jape is supposed to have some ascertainable point; and Blast had none.
  • No explanation for the fall was ever given, though Sir Thomas believed he may have been involved in some stupid jape.
  • The brand might be no mark of honour at all - but a culminating cruel humiliating jape.
  • The not unfamiliar childish jape of depositing a stink bomb in her locker caused her great anguish.
  • What a jape it would be, declared Raphaelo, to gain access to the heat sink.
  • What larks and japes persuaded this audience to collapse in convulsions is a mystery as dark as the Druids' Runes.
a trick or joke
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