poke at

1. She poked at her food with a fork
   她拿叉子拨弄着食物。
2. Reggie threw more wood on the fire and poked at it.
   雷吉又往火上扔了些木柴。
3. We hackers like to poke at the guts of things.
   我们电脑黑客喜欢深入到事物内部。
4. The young writer takes a poke at the government's refusal to sign the green pact with the neighboring nations.
   年轻的作者批评政府拒绝同邻国签署环保协议。
5. You may even poke fun at yourself or let other people make jokes about you because you are able to mentally draw the line between humor and degradation.
   甚至你会自嘲或让别人取笑你，因为你能够很清晰地分辨幽默与讽刺的区别。
6. We do not intend to be insensitive or to poke fun at last Friday's incident, the paper said in a front-page apology Monday, adding that it was very sympathetic to the plight of the Japanese people.
   周一，该报在头版发布的道歉声明中表示：我们并不是想对上周五的灾难表示漠不关心或者冷嘲热讽。另外他们还表示该报非常同情日本民众目前所处的困境。
7. It is easy to poke fun at the idea of forcing high-flying executives to read the classics.
   强迫这些明日之星阅读经典，这很容易遭到取笑。
8. The images were being used to poke fun at the jury's ruling that the South Korean firm had copied the shape of Apple's wildly popular iPhone, which ( like most) is rectangular with curved corners.
   这些剧照被用来取笑陪审团的裁决：三星抄袭了苹果公司广受欢迎的常见的长方带圆角形状的iPhone。
9. Mr Gates suggested, for example, that the Pentagon should consider using "lower-cost, lower-tech aircraft" that could also be used by American allies, apparently a poke at the expensive F-22 fighter jet.
   盖茨表示，比如五角大楼应考虑同样可被美国盟友使用的“较低成本，较低技术含量的飞机”，这明显是对昂贵的f-22战斗机的微辞。
10. You want to take a poke at me?
    想捅我几下吗？
11. Ask your brother not to poke at that poor dog!
    叫你弟弟不要用棍子去戳那条可怜的小狗！
12. When people poke fun at me for my big nose, I just laugh.
    当人们打趣我的大鼻子时，我只是哈哈大笑。
13. We all poke fun at her because she wears such a strange hat.
    我们大家都笑她戴这么一顶古怪的帽子。
14. I have also taken the opportunity to poke fun at my reactions.
    我也藉这个机会拿我的反应来开玩笑。
15. Poke at with the foot or toe.
    用脚或脚尖轻轻地走。
16. I left E3 drolling with dreams of having this installed on my machine where I could poke at it for hours.
    我离开E3以后就一直幻想着魔兽世界已经被装在了自己的机器上。
17. Example: You shouldn't poke fun at him just because he can't ride a bicycle.
    你不应该只是因为他不会骑车就取笑他。
18. The central meaning shared by these verbs is "to poke fun at good-humoredly"
    这些动词的中心意思都有“善意地取笑”
19. But the main reason is I am actually fond of my phone. I do poke fun at it when my friends catch me using it, but this is a defensive gesture, to prevent others from laughing at it and at me.
    最主要的是我很喜欢我的手机，当我朋友用我的手机的时候，我就那我的手机看玩笑，这只是一个小小自卫计策，防止他们嘲笑我。
20. Chua tried to paint a self-effacing portrait and use humour to poke fun at her shortcomings.
    蔡美儿试图描绘一副低调的画像，并利用幽默取笑自己的短处。
21. Don't poke at that boy.
    不要嘲笑那个男孩。
22. Mind you, people at international conferences love to criticize America, poke fun at America and complain about America.
    请注意。出席国际会议的人士都喜欢批评、取笑、抱怨美国。
23. Stop taking life and conversations so seriously and learn to open up, and poke fun at yourself and others.
    不要老是把生活和谈话搞得过于严肃和认真，试着敞开自己的心灵，在调侃你自己和别人的玩笑话中制造快乐。
24. My friends often poke fun at my accent.
    朋友们常常打趣我的口音。
25. Tyson knocked my wallet off, so I took a poke at him.
    泰森抢了我的钱包，我就用拳头打他。
26. The ability to distance from the everyday challenges of being in a relationship, and even poke fun at them, can bring long-term stability.
    距离的能力将自己从日常生活中解脱出来，甚至取笑别人，从而保持长期稳定。
27. He's even more willing to poke fun at himself.
    他现在甚至比较愿意自我解嘲了。
28. Then he took a poke at my hair, telling me I looked like a scarecrow!
    然后他开始嘲笑我的头发，说我看起来像个稻草人！
29. We can kind of poke at it and test it, maybe here is a problem, maybe we can fix it in the end.
    我们可以挑选并且测试它们，那么这里可能出现了问题，我们最后可能一起解决。
30. Again and again these feminist lexicographyers refuse and indeed poke fun at the mainstream lexicography.
    这些推崇女权主义的词典编纂者们一次次地拒绝，甚至取笑主流词典编纂学的做法。

verb

1. to push against gently
   1. She nudged my elbow when she saw her friend enter the restaurant

   Synonym:    nudgeprod