pleasantry
['plezntri]
n. 幽默, 开玩笑, 客气话
例句与用法:
The children smiled politely at the visitor's pleasantries.
孩子听了客人说的幽默话,都斯文地笑了。
After an exchange of pleasantries, the leaders started their negotiations.
领导人互相寒暄一番,然後开始谈判。
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n.
1. 幽默轻松, 诙谐有趣[U]
2. 幽默轻松的话(或举止), 打趣的话[C]
We stood about exchanging a few pleasantries.
我们站在附近, 说了几句打趣的话。
pleasantry
名词复数:pleasantries
词形变化:
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同义词:
loveliness | appeal | niceness | satisfaction | agreeableness | amiability | friendliness | likability | congeniality | geniality | good humor | sweetness |
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词义辨析:
同义参见:
comedy
quip
humor
pleasantry['plezəntri]n.1.■幽默,诙谐2.■开玩笑的话;打趣的话;客套话3.■幽默轻松的举动(或行为)4.■愉快的事情,快乐的事情变形n.pleasantries
(pl. -ies)
- (一般作 pleasantries)an inconsequential remark made as part of a polite conversation
打趣的话
after an exchange of pleasantries, I proceeded to outline a plan.
打趣一番之后,我接着讲了一个计划的提纲。
■a mild joke
小玩笑
he laughed at his own pleasantry.
他被自己开的小玩笑给逗笑了。
- late 16th cent.: from French plaisanterie, from Old French plaisant 'pleasing' (see pleasant)
pleasantry
名词 pleasantry:
an agreeable or amusing remark
pleasantry
■There is a pleasantry in his manner.
他的态度轻松诙谐,讨人喜欢。
■he said, or some such pleasantry.
他这样说或是说了一句别的什么诙谐话。
■Elizabeth tried to join in her father's pleasantry, but could only force one most reluctant smile.
伊丽莎白尽量凑着父亲打趣,可是她的笑容显得极其勉强。
■We have learned, however, from experience, what sort of pleasantry is upon most occasions capable of making us laugh, and we observe that this is one of that kind.
但是,从经验中,我们已经学会,什么样的笑话可以让我们在大多数情况下发笑的笑话,我们发现这个笑话就是属于那个种类中的一个。
■You stick to that pleasantry, do you!
你坚决要开玩笑!
■And thy too-forced pleasantry!
你的过于装作的滑稽!
■The physician laughed at his own pleasantry, but narrowly watched his patient from the corner of his eye.
医生觉得自己的话好笑,就笑了笑,但是又用眼睛余光仔细打量着他的病人。
■But he regretted the pleasantry; it was too near a satire.
后来一想,这句笑话太象当面挖苦了,他又后悔起来。
■3.In the historical coordinate of our national culture, we can locate the actual existence of humor as consciousness and form;this is what we call "ya xie," or graceful pleasantry.
在民族文化的历史坐标上,我们能确定幽默作为一种意识和形式的实际存在,这就是所谓雅谑。
■First-class pleasantry of man and wife
夫妻的超级幽默
■Nonplussed for a moment, Pug realized that the heavy pleasantry was intended as a kindness.
帕格一时不知所措,而后意识到这种叫人吃不消的取笑是存心表示亲热。
■1. pleasantry n.
幽默, 开玩笑;
■We know kissing as a social pleasantry, the appropriate ending to a date and a means of connecting with our main squeeze.
我们知道接吻是一种社交礼仪,一种不错的约会告别形式,也是主要的肌肤相亲的方式。
■I was very curious to visit South Africa, and I have been pleasantry surprised by what I have seen.
我去那儿之前很好奇,我所见的一切让我既愉悦又吃惊。
■Doubtless Signor Pastrini found this pleasantry compromising, for he only answered half the question, and then he spoke to Franz, as the only one likely to listen with attention.
派里尼老板一定觉得这种玩笑未免太讨苦吃了,因为他对这些问题只回答了一半,而且是向弗兰兹说的,只有弗兰兹似乎还象是在用心听他讲话似的。
■Danglars smiled at the good-natured pleasantry of the count
腾格拉尔对伯爵这种好心的打趣微笑了一下。
■For many years Jess had been employed about the cemetery as a man-of-all-work and it was his favourite pleasantry that he knew 'every soul in the place.
许多年来,墓地雇他做杂差,而他最得意的玩笑就是他认识“墓地里的每个幽灵”。
■After an exchange of pleasantry, the leader start their negotiation.
领导人互相寒暄一番,然後开始谈判。
■After an exchange of pleasantry,the leader start their negotiation.
领导人互相寒暄一番,然后开始谈判。
■Marius was too melancholy to take even a chance pleasantry well, and to lend himself to a game which the pavement of the street seemed desirous of playing with him.
马吕斯正在苦闷中,没有心情来和偶然的恶作剧认真,也不打算投入这场仿佛是由街头的石块出面邀请他参加的游戏。