jests
英 [dʒests]
美 [dʒests]
n. 笑话; 俏皮话; 打趣; 玩笑
v. 开玩笑; 说笑话
jest的第三人称单数和复数
柯林斯词典
- N-COUNT 笑话；打趣；玩笑
A jest is something that you say that is intended to be amusing.- It was a jest rather than a reproach...
这与其说是责备，还不如说是句玩笑呢。 - The men talk as cheerfully as ever; jests are bandied about freely.
男人们像往常一样高兴地聊着，彼此间随意开着玩笑。
- It was a jest rather than a reproach...
- VERB 说笑话；开玩笑；打趣
If you jest, you tell jokes or say amusing things.- He enjoyed drinking and jesting with his cronies...
他喜欢和老朋友喝喝酒、开开玩笑。 - A newspaper half jested: Had alcohol not already killed him, this would surely drive him to drink.
一份报纸半开玩笑地写道：要不是喝酒已经要了他的命，这肯定会让他想要喝上一杯。
- He enjoyed drinking and jesting with his cronies...
双语例句
- The men talk as cheerfully as ever; jests are bandied about freely.
男人们像往常一样高兴地聊着，彼此间随意开着玩笑。 - Such cybernetic jests would probably be even funnier than when cracked by a human being, especially the ones I know.
这些在电脑控制下讲出的笑话甚至可能比人类讲出来的更好笑，尤其是与我知道的笑话相比。 - What does it matter, he jests, if we watch football, drink beer and wolf down ice cream instead of reading Joyce?
看足球、喝啤酒、享用冰淇淋，不看乔伊斯，有什么大不了的吗？ - He jests at scars that never felt a wound.
没有受过伤的人才会讥笑别人身上的创痕。 - No Merry Andrew, to stir up the multitude with jests, perhaps hundreds of years old, but still effective, by their appeals to the very broadest sources of mirthful sympathy.
“也没有逗得大家哄堂大笑的”快乐的安德鲁“说那些由于笑料选出、虽已流传上百年、仍让人百听不厌的笑话。 - Their jests made everyone laugh.
他们说的俏皮话逗得大家哈哈大笑。 - Mary always jests about her feelings towards him.
玛丽总是拿她对他的感情开玩笑。