jest怎么读,jest的音标和真人发音
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jest 玩笑,打趣
来自拉丁语gesta,事迹,英雄故事,来自gerere,带来,词源同belligerent,digest.原指讲述英雄故事,通常带有夸张色彩,最后引申词义开玩笑,打趣,逗笑。

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Half in jest he chose the pseudonym the shadow knows .
他半开玩笑地透露,他选用的网名叫“知情影客”。
But if he speaks in jest , his words are idle among men who cannot receive them .
但如果他是在开玩笑,那么他的话语在那些无法理解的人们中就变得空虚了。
" How can a country that blocks youtube ever be a financial powerhouse ? " Asks one market analyst , only half in jest .
一位市场分析师半开玩笑半认真地说:“一个屏蔽youtube的国家,怎么可能成为金融霸主呢?”
Martinis " make me hate the people I love and love the people I hate , " a woman once commented in jest .
“马提尼酒让我恨那些我爱的人,让我爱那些我恨的人”,一位女士曾经开玩笑说。
It has conflated the interests of party and state , dishing out contracts for public works as rewards for loyalty-hence the bitter jest that the government is in hock to " tenderpreneurs " .
非国大还企图将党和国家的利益“捆绑销售”,声称对党忠诚的人将可以与政府签订公共设施建设合同,为此,还有个挖苦他们的笑话:承包商成了政府的债主。
A steakhouse dinner date went south after she told her companion in jest that he was holding his knife and fork in the wrong hands .
她开玩笑的告诉她的同事说:在一家牛排餐厅,他连拿刀和叉都拿错了
Randall cites autistics and - not entirely in jest - bureaucrats and academics as good examples of how simply having extraordinary technical skills can be meaningless without the creativity to exploit them .
兰德尔还是引用疫苗引发孤独症那个例子这完全不是玩笑政府官员和科学家们将其作为他们具有优秀的职业技能实例引用,但这是毫无创造性、无意义的引用。
We may often approve of a jest , and think the laughter of the company quite just and proper , though we ourselves do not laugh , because , perhaps , we are in a grave humour , or happen to have our attention engaged with other objects .
我们常常会赞成某个笑话,并且认为同伴的笑声是合情合理的,尽管我们自己不会笑,因为,可能我们当时的心情不好,或者碰巧当时的注意力被别的事情吸引了。
At a meeting of chief investment officers that I attended in new york , for example , some cios suggested half in jest that the investment community should start asking whether some large companies ( such as ibm ) could provide an alternative benchmark .
例如,我在纽约出席一个首席投资官会议时,一些首席投资官(半开玩笑地)建议,投资界应该开始考虑一些大公司(比如ibm)是否可以提供一个替代性的基准。
No wonder a senior member of the us government remarked a couple of years ago , partly in jest , that sooner or later , goldman " is going to have to choose whether it wants to really be american or not " .
难怪美国政府的一位高级官员几年前曾半开玩笑地说过,高盛迟早“会被迫作出选择,决定自己是否愿意成为十足的美国公司”。

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