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, 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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？
• Witticism is an aesthetic way, which was formed after Tang and Song Dynasties under the influence of zen.
  妙悟说则是唐宋以后在禅宗影响下形成的审美方式；
• 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
• Kundera's humor mainly contains laughing-at-himself and irony from poetic meditation besides jeer and witticism.
  “昆德拉式的幽默”除了揶揄、谐趣之外，更多的则是基于“诗性沉思”的自嘲和反讽。
• But this is a witticism, not the truth.
  但这不过是一句俏皮话，并非事实。
• 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。
• 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