jape
jape 英 [dʒeɪp] 美 [dʒep]
n. 嘲弄；玩笑 vi. 开玩笑 vt. 嘲弄
名词复数:japes
- A jape is a joke. The highlight of your family get-togethers might be your funny uncle's japes.
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- n. 嘲弄；玩笑
- vi. 开玩笑
- vt. 嘲弄
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1. You think this is a jape?
你认为这是个玩笑？
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2. The jape is on you, Abel, you and your murdering whores.
这次命运用你开玩笑了，你和你的婊子杀手门。
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3. It was only a jape, ser, she thought, but she sat on one of the pillows just the same.
那只是个玩笑而已，爵士，她想，但是与此同时她还是坐了上去。
- jape (n.) mid-14c., "a trick, a cheat;" late 14c. "a joke, a jest; a frivolous pastime, something of little importance" (late 14c.); see jape (v.). By 1400 also "depraved or immoral act; undignified behavior; bawdiness." Related: Japery "jesting, joking, raillery, mockery" (mid-14c.).
- jape (v.) late 14c., "to trick, beguile, jilt; to mock," also "to act foolishly; to speak jokingly, jest pleasantly," perhaps from Old French japer "to howl, bawl, scream" (Modern French japper), of echoic origin, or from Old French gaber "to mock, deride." Phonetics suits the former, but sense the latter explanation. Chaucer has it in the full range of senses. Around mid-15c. the Middle English word took on a slang sense of "have sex with" and subsequently vanished from polite usage. It was revived in the benign sense of "say or do something in jest" by Scott, etc., and has limped along since in stilted prose. Related: Japed; japing.
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