jests
[dʒest]
[ jests ]
n.说笑, 玩笑
v.开玩笑
例句与用法:
I said in jest I would marry Jim.
我开玩笑说要嫁给吉姆。
He is not a man to jest with.
他是个不能开玩笑的人。
It began as a jest and ended as a tragedy.
事情以玩笑开始,以悲剧告终。
A true jest is no jest.
[谚]真笑话并非笑话。
Don't jest with me!
别跟我开玩笑!
词形变化:
副词: jestingly | 动词过去式: jested | 动词过去分词: jested | 动词现在分词: jesting | 动词第三人称单数: jests |
jests
名词 jest:
a humorous anecdote or remark intended to provoke laughter
同义词:joke, gag, laugh, jest, jape
activity characterized by good humor
同义词:jest, joke, jocularity
动词 jest:
tell a joke; speak humorously
act in a funny or teasing way
jests
■Better lose a jest than a friend.
(谚语)宁肯少说笑话,决不得罪朋友。
■A true jest is no jest.
[谚]真笑话并非笑话。
■"We had a lot of partners 2005, will talk about a hope we grow in the outstanding achievement inside shorter time decuple, everybody feels at that time is jest.
“2005年我们有很多合作伙伴,来谈希望我们在比较短时间内业绩增长十倍,那个时候大家觉得是笑话。
■"No, you won't," said Carrie, who was coming to feel a certain faint power to jest with the drummer.
“不,你骗人。 "她现在稍稍有了点自信心,敢跟这个推销员开开玩笑了。
■"You seem to be afraid of me lately. You don't even like to talk to me. What's wrong?" he asked, half in jest, toying with an overhanging branch.
“你近来好像害怕我,连话也不肯跟我多说,究竟是为什么?” 他半正经半开玩笑地说,一只手在玩弄旁边下垂的树枝。
■"Ad yet they say orphans are to be pitied," said Danglars, wishing to prolong the jest.
“大家说孤儿是应该怜悯的,”腾格拉尔说,借开玩笑来延长时间。
■"I know what happiness and what despair are, and I never make a jest of such feelings.
“我知道快乐和失望是怎么回事,我从来不拿这种感情开玩笑。
■"Sometimes I ask my Catholic counterparts why they must make all the same mistakes in 20 years when we Protestant theologians needed over 200 years," jests Tubingen's Hengel.
“有时我问我的天主教同僚,他们为什么在短短20年内就把我们新教神学家在200年内犯的错误挨个儿重犯了一遍”,图宾根的Hengel开玩笑地说。
■A man is mortified when, after having endeavoured to divert the company, he looks round and sees that nobody laughs at his jests but himself.
一个人当在努力娱乐他的伙伴中受了窘,他会环顾四周,看见除了自己没有人在嘲笑他。
■A young machine hand, attracted by her looks, make bold to jest with her.
一个年青的机械师被她的美貌所吸引,壮着胆子跟她开玩笑。
■A young machine hand, attracted by her looks, made bold to jest with her.
一位年轻的机工, 被她的美貌所吸引, 壮着胆子跟她开玩笑。
■A skit called "The Nut Buying Cider" embodies an old folk jest about a fool who tries to carry a beverage home in his hat.
一出叫做《傻子买果汁》的滑稽剧,表现一位老年乡民取笑一个傻瓜,那傻瓜想用他的帽子装一些饮料回家。
■The spirit of each is sovereign, jest suffices to open the field to the unexpected.
一句玩笑话已够打开一个意外的场面。
■Don't jest at her.
不要取笑她。
■Don't jest with me.
不要和我开玩笑。
■Do not say that even in jest!
不要说这种话,哪怕是开玩笑,也不要说这种话!
■This, however, was a remark which was confined to the drawing-rooms. The populace, which perceives no jest in holy deeds, was touched, and admired him.
不过那是上层阶级客厅里的一种说法。对圣事活动不怀恶意的人民却感动了,并且十分钦佩主教。
■English: He jests at scars that never felt a wound.
中文:没有受过伤的人才会嘲笑别人的伤疤。
■It began as a jest and ended as a tragedy.
事情以玩笑开始,以悲剧告终。
■Then, the financial jest with acerbic only zealous those past economist, what had become American at one's leisure today is newfangled.
于是,那些过去只有尖刻的经济学家热衷的金融笑话,今天已经成为了美国人茶余饭后的最新流行。
■Life is a jest; and all things shown it. I thought so once; but now I know it.
人生闹剧一场;事事可以佐证。我曾如此想过;如今知之确凿。
■He's not a man to jest with.
他不是一个可以玩笑的人。
■He had seen no jest in ambiguities and roguery, as the Casterbridges tosspots had done.
他不象卡斯特桥的一般酒鬼,专门在胡说八道和恶作剧里去寻开心。
■He spoke in jest when he asked me to marry him.
他以开玩笑的口气向我求婚。
■More than anything they delighted in riddles, and these pleased the countrymen, whose minds were stored with old quips and jests, for this happened in days when there were few books, and riddle-telling was the winter' s pastime.
他们最喜欢的事是猜谜语。 乡下人都爱猜谜语,因为在那个年代里不太有书本可读,所以在冬天就以讲谜语来消磨时光。 四兄弟脑袋里装满了俏皮话和笑话。
■They made a jest of his ignorance.
他们笑话他无知。
■Their jests made everyone laugh.
他们说的俏皮话逗得大家哈哈大笑。
■He pointed his finger in friendly jest and went over to the parapet, laughing to himself.
他友善而打趣地指了一下,一面暗自笑着,走到胸墙那儿。
■He jests me on my folly.
他嘲笑我的愚蠢。
■He lit upon some jest books in the bookstore.
他在书店偶然发现了一些笑话集。
■He often jests about serious problems.
他时常拿严肃的问题开玩笑。
■He often breaks a jest.
他时常说笑话。
■He is not a man to jest with.
他是个不能开玩笑的人。
■He was so vain and reckless that he would break a friendship, rather than not break a jest.
他是如此虚荣狂妄, 宁可和人翻脸, 有笑话却不能不说。
■He is fond of breaking a jest.
他爱说笑话。
■He spoke it in a kind of jest, but it was with such an awkward smile.
他用一种说笑的口吻说着,但是说时带着那么不自然的微笑。
■Not a word with him but a jest.
他的每一句话都是一个笑话。
■His reply was taken half seriously half in jest.
他的答复看来是半开玩笑、半认真的。
■His reply was taken half seriously, half in jest .
他的答覆看来是半开玩笑半认真的.
■His reply was taken half seriously, half in jest.
他的答覆看来是半开玩笑半认真的。
■He is indebted to his memory for his jest and to his imagination for his fact.
他的诙谐有赖于记忆力,而其事实则有来于想象力。
■He is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for his facts.
他的诙谐有赖于记忆力,而其事实则有赖于想象力。
■He could not divine what her look signified, whether she spoke in earnest or in jest.
他看不透她脸上的表情,究竟她说的是认真的还是戏谑的。
■He could not divine what her look signified.whether she spoke in earnest or in jest.
他看不透她脸上的表情,究竟她说的是认真的还是戏谑的。
■He thought it did not become a well-bred lady to be so light with her tongue; and he remembered, when he was last at Messina, that Beatrice used to choose him to make her merry jests upon.
他认为如此滑嘴油舌不会成为一个有好教养的少女;而且他记得,上次他在梅辛纳的时候,碧翠丝常常选他来做取笑的对象。
■He teased Mary with a jest.
他说俏皮话逗玛丽。
■He speaks with a disposition of lively rattle, pun, and jest, amusing to a grave man, because it is what he himself can least easily command.
他说起话来,口若悬河,一语双关,诙谐动听,甚至使一个严肃的人也觉得有趣,因为他是最不善于此道的。
■He speaks with a disposition of lively rattle, put, and jest, amusing to a grave man , because it is what he himself can least easily command .
他说起话来,口若悬河,一语双关,诙谐动听,甚至使一个严肃的人也觉得有趣,因为他是最不善于此道的。
■He said it in jest.
他说这话是开玩笑的。
■"It may," he says, "have been uttered as a whim, in jest.
他说:“可能只是一时兴起的戏言。”