Banter
['bæntə] or ['bæntɚ]
解釋/意思:
(v. t.) To address playful good-natured ridicule to, -- the person addressed, or something pertaining to him, being the subject of the jesting; to rally; as, he bantered me about my credulity.
(v. t.) To jest about; to ridicule in speaking of, as some trait, habit, characteristic, and the like.
(v. t.) To delude or trick, -- esp. by way of jest.
(v. t.) To challenge or defy to a match.
(n.) The act of bantering; joking or jesting; humorous or good-humored raillery; pleasantry.
編輯:沃尔夫冈
同義詞及近義詞:
v. a. Jeer, joke, rally, quiz, ridicule, taunt, twit, deride, mock, make fun of, make sport of, make merry with, play upon, make a butt of.
n. Raillery, ridicule, mockery, derision, persiflage, pleasantry, BADINAGE, ASTEISM, joking, jesting, quizzing, frivolous talk, small talk.
編輯:内尔达
同義詞及反義詞:
SYN:Badinage, chaff, mockery, derision, ridicule, irony, jeering, raillery
ANT:Discussion, discourse, argument
阿德拉錄入
解釋/意思:
v.t. to assail with good-humoured raillery: to joke or jest at: (arch.) to impose upon trick.—n. humorous raillery: jesting.—ns. Bant′erer; Bant′ering.—adv. Bant′eringly.—adj. Bant′ery (Carlyle).
手打:朱迪
例句/造句/用法:
- There were purpose and feeling, banter and scoff, playing, mingled, on her mobile lineaments. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- But he is incapable of defending them in a discussion, and vainly tries to cover his confusion with banter and insolence. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- But Archer, meeting his eyes, saw the filial light under their banter. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 純真年代.
- She smiled as she spoke, letting her eyes rest on his in a way that took the edge from her banter and made him suddenly malleable to her will. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- Not much, I am sorry to say, answered the Vicar, accustomed to parry Mr. Toller's banter about his belief in the new medical light. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- Sophronia, my love,' her husband repeated in a bantering manner, 'you hear? 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- He had assumed a bantering air: a light, half-caressing, half-ironicshone aslant in his eye. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- I got but one flash of sheet lightning in the shape of a single bantering smile from his eyes; and then he said, Courage! 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- There is your opportunity, Monsieur Tarzan, bantered the Frenchman. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
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