The doctors are not entirely sympathetic, "If there was a surgery to enlarge brains, we would offer him a free trial," they quip.

医生们并不太同情，他们讽刺说：“如果有个手术能使大脑变大的话，我们很愿意给他免费试用。”

Oh, that Ken Jennings, always quick with a quip.

噢，那个总是机敏而幽默的肯詹宁斯。

Oscar Wilde's quip now sounds hopelessly out of date.

奥斯卡·王尔德此言虽妙，而今听来却彻头彻尾过时了。

My advice is to ride it out, make an occasional smart-aleck quip.

我的意见就是出去旅行，并时不时地说些自作聪明的俏皮话。

Now psychologists have found that his quip bears the hallmark of truth.

现在许多心理学家认为，他的这句名言承载有许多哲学真理。

Her quip, written in 1962, was inspired by underemployment in South-East Asia.

她在1962年写下了这句妙语，她当时是受东南亚各国失业率启发。

This was his quip encapsulating his strong opposition to industrial policy.

这是他强烈反对工业策略的说法。

And New Yorkers pride themselves on quick quip or a biting sarcastic remark.

纽约人也很自豪能够妙语如珠或出言挑衅的讽刺。

So, when do I start? A slightly obnoxious quip. Don't invite yourself into the job.

那我什么时候上班？这是个有点让人讨厌的问题。不要反客为主了。

Upon hearing Artest's humorous quip, the popular expression appeared on Yao's face.

在听到阿泰斯特幽默的调侃后，这一流行的表情便出现在了姚明的脸上。

"Torture the data long enough and they will confess to anything," statisticians quip.

“数据如果被折磨够久的话也会屈打成招，”统计师此言妙哉。

“Remember Oscar Wilde's quip,” he says: “When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers’.

“记住奥斯卡王尔德的妙语”他这样说道“当上帝想要惩罚我们的时候，会给我们的祷告者回应的。”

But, he did quip, "Life is a slightly open-ended story. You can't just kill the entire cast."

但是他又打趣说，“生活里总是要有留一点点想象空间的故事情节，你总不能把里面的所有演员都干掉吧。”

It was a quip that got me thinking, because behavioural economics does indeed have a dark side.

这句一语双关的话让我深思，因为行为经济学的确有其黑暗面。

Each letter ends with a P.S. that's a catty quip about the feline in the house, A.K.A. "the Queen."

每封信都以一个狡猾的附言结尾——都是对屋里那只叫做“王后”的猫的讥讽。

"Remember Oscar Wilde's quip," he says: "When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers'."

“记住奥斯卡·王尔德的妙语”他这样说道“当上帝想要惩罚我们的时候，会给我们的祷告者回应的。”

But the bottom line, Mr Hayward: whatever else you do, resist the urge to quip "oil's well that ends well."

但是唐熙华先生，不论你做什么，底线是你得忍住嘲弄“油好，一切都好”的冲动。

BJP parliamentarians quip that Mr Singh seems such a liability for Congress they are anxious lest he resign.

人民党议员开玩笑说，辛格先生对国大党负有重大责任，要是他辞职，他们可就担心死了。

As I quip in Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids, "No one asks to be born, but almost everyone would if he could."

正如我在《儿女满堂的自私原因》中笑谈：“没有人要求降生，但如果可以要求的话，几乎所有人都希望这样。”

But quietly so. Even when an archetypal Allen quip slips out, there are no eye-rolls, no grandstanding, no bada-boom.

But quietly so.即使一句典型的艾伦式讽刺脱口而出，他也不会眨一下眼睛，不会有哗众取宠的表演或者bada-boom 。

The standard quip among the remnants of Belfast’s shipbuilding community remains: “She was all right when she left us.”

在贝尔法斯特造船社会的残存文化中还流传着一句通俗的俏皮话：“她起航的时候还好好的。”

The doctors are not entirely sympathetic: “If there was a surgery to enlarge brains, we would offer him a free trial, ” they quip.

医生们并不太同情这个家伙，他们讽刺说：“如果有个手术能加大脑瓜的话，我们很愿意给他免费试用。”

Stacey also USES the title of Marie Kondo's hit book on tidying to quip: 'What if your kids don't spark joy? How do you get rid of them?

斯黛西还模仿近藤麻理惠关于收纳整理的热销书名来打趣：“如果你的孩子不能给你带来乐趣怎么办，你该如何摆脱他们呢？”

Bohr's quip summarizes one of the essential lessons of learning, which is that people learn how to get it right by getting it wrong again and again.

波尔的说法总结了学习的必须一课，即人们从通过不断犯错学会如何做正确。

For example, I can think of Einstein's famous "God does not play dice" quip in response to his disbelief of Max Born's work on quantum theory in 1926.

例如，我能想起爱因斯坦有名的那句“上帝是不玩骰子的”，这是他在1962年回应他不信马克思·波恩的 理论时所说的一句谑语。

Returning to a country from which Fiat was driven out by poor quality-americans used to quip that its name stood for "Fix it Again, Tony" -is a big risk.

美国人曾讽刺“菲亚特”这个名字的含义是“托尼，这破车还得再修一次”。菲亚特的车子也确因质量差而被踢出美国，这次重返是要冒大风险的。