Repartee
[,repɑː'tiː] or [,rɛpə'ti]
解释:
(n.) A smart, ready, and witty reply.
(v. i.) To make smart and witty replies.
艾利森手打
同义词及近义词:
n. Retort; smart, or witty reply.
贾维斯整理
解释:
n. a smart ready and witty reply.—v.i. to make witty replies.
艾德丽安录入
娱乐性解释:
n. Prudent insult in retort. Practiced by gentlemen with a constitutional aversion to violence but a strong disposition to offend. In a war of words the tactics of the North American Indian.
沙琳编辑
娱乐性解释:
The sassy habit of talking back.
编辑:米兰达
例句:
- Mr. Rochester, allow me to disown my first answer: I intended no pointed repartee: it was only a blunder. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
- I am a very matter-of-fact, plain-spoken being, and may blunder on the borders of a repartee for half an hour together without striking it out. 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.
- Perhaps not,' said Fascination Fledgeby, with great quickness of repartee; 'but I expect it will be devilish warm to-morrow. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
安德鲁手打