| 单词 | joke |
| 释义 | joke I. 1. a. < a tune which can be played backward — a ~ — Edward Sackville-West > < the use of primarily visual jokes — Current Biography > especially < had a great fund of off-color jokes > b. (1) < knew they were meant in joke — James Jones > (2) < the joke of it was that the matter was so entirely his own choice — S.E.White > (3) < the most valuable thing she taught me was to take a joke — Polly Adler > c. < mustn't play jokes on poor old ladies > d. < why, he's the joke of the whole town > < was still … a national joke — Van Wyck Brooks > 2. a. < palaces and haunts … in which the state religion is a joke — Ray Alan > < consider his skiing a joke — Harold Callender > — often used in negative construction < it is no joke … to encounter week after week a player of settled reputation — Bernard Darwin > b. < that exam was a joke > Synonyms: < everyone knows the old joke, that “black horses eat more than white horses”, a puzzling condition which is finally cleared up by the statement that “there are more black horses” — W.J.Reilly > < issues had become a hopeless muddle and national politics a biennial joke — Dixon Wecter > < a child hiding mother's pocketbook as a joke > < the whole tale turns out to be a monstrous joke, a deception of matchless cruelty — B.R.Redman > jest, now literary or affected, in an older sense still connotes raillery or sarcasm but generally today suggests humor that is light and sportive, as banter < continually … making a jest of his ignorance — J.D.Beresford > < won fame by jests at the foibles of his time, but … his pen was more playful than caustic — S.T.Williams & J.A.Pollard > jape, usually of literary occurrence, originally signified an amusing anecdote but today is identical with jest or joke < the merry japes of fundamentally irresponsible young men — Edmund Fuller > < the japes about sex still strike me as being prurient rather than funny — John McCarten > quip suggests a quick, neatly turned, witty remark < full of wise saws and homely illustrations, the epigram, the quip, the jest — B.N.Cardozo > < many quips at the expense of individuals and their villages — Margaret Mead > < enlivened their reviews with quips — W.H.Dunham > witticism is a bookish and wisecrack or crack the more general term for a clever or witty, especially a biting or sarcastic, remark, generally a retort < all the charming witticisms of English lecturers — Eric Sevareid > < a vicious witticism at the expense of a political opponent > < merely strolls by, makes a goofy wisecrack or screwball suggestion — Hugh Humphrey > < though the gravity of the situation forbade their utterance, I was thinking of at least three priceless cracks I could make — P.G.Wodehouse > gag, orig. in this connection and still signifying an interpolated joke or laugh-provoking piece of business, more generally today applies to any remark, story, or piece of business considered funny, especially one written into a theatrical, movie, radio, or television script, and sometimes has extended its meaning to signify any trick whether funny or not but usually one considered foolish < gags grown venerable in the service of the music halls — Times Literary Supplement > < the gag was not meant to be entirely funny — Newsweek > < gave a party the other night and pulled a really constructive gag … had every guest in the place vaccinated against smallpox — Hollywood Reporter > < a frivolous person, given to gags and foolishness > II. intransitive verb < joked about the possibility of … lead poisoning due to bullets — Morris Fishbein > transitive verb 1. < beginning to joke him a bit about a nice young lady — Ethel Wilson > 2. < joke a beggar's penny out of you — Robert Lynd > |
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