英语释义

• make a play on words;

  "Japanese like to pun--their language is well suited to punning"

• a humorous play on words;

  "I do it for the pun of it"

  "his constant punning irritated her"

片语

Phonetic Pun语音双关

Visual PunA visual pun is a pun involving an image or images (in addition to or instead of language).

sylletic pun一词多义双关

equivoke双关语（模棱两可的话）

play on words诙谐双关语；说俏皮话

Kyaik Pun四面佛

Sydney Pun潘溯

homophonous Pun谐音双关

including pun歇后语

lexical pun词义双关

crack wise说俏皮话

double-entendre双关语

skillfully Pun巧妙地双关

英汉例句

• but the cartoonist is making a pun here, as bush league is also 「bush league」, second-rate because it comes from people with minds like that of president george w. bush.

  但是漫画家在此用的是双关语，因为灌木球联就是「布什球联」——一个二流的球联，因为它的人员组成都是头脑像布什总统那样的人。

• for some it is a pun on the end of times, for others on the eponymous and violent video game involving vehicular combat, an appropriate metaphor.

  对一些人而言，这一称呼是一个时代终结的双关语，对另外一些涉及车辆作战的同名暴力视频游戏玩家而言，它是一个恰当的比喻。

• now that you have a handle (no pun intended) on all the tools we「ve shown you, here are some ways you can use them individually or together to improve your memory monitoring.

  现在您已经操作（不是双关语，handle 还有一个含义是句柄）了我们要介绍的所有工具，下面是您单独或一起使用这些工具，改进内存监控的一些方法。

• although that screed was not completely on the mark (do with that pun what you will), it helped to spark a conversation about our bibliographic standards and where we need to go in the future.

  尽管那个长篇大论并没有完全说到点子上（although thatscreedwasnotcompletelyonthemark——你可以按照你的方式来把玩这个双关语），它的确让人们开始讨论起我们的书目标準及其未来的发展来。

• because both of these problems rely on a number」s factors, they are good candidates for refactoring (no pun intended) and thus for illustrating styles of code reuse.

  由于这两个问题都依赖于数字因子，它们都是重构（不是双关语）和说明代码重用风格的最佳候选者。

• this is a hauntingly beautiful rendition of a visual pun — allusion meets illusion.

  这是一个视觉上的双关，利用典故和错觉，美的慑人心魄。

• azuz: it「s not polite to talk about a lady」s weight, much less make a pun about it.

  阿祖：谈论淑女的体重是不礼貌的，何况是关于它的双关语。

• so excuse me if i think that they should all get their respective houses (no pun intended) in order before they go off telling any of us how to eat or take care of ourselves.

  因此如果我认为他们都应该收拾收拾各自的house(非有意双关)再来给我们讲述如何饮食或者照顾好自己的话题，敬请大家原谅我的冒昧。

• this is not our english word climbing although it only emphasizes my claim that these guys were smart-alecks making a pun like that.

  这不是我们英语中的climbing，尽管这只能更加证明我的观点，这些自作聪明的人总是做那样的双关语。

• this problem is so persistent (no pun intended) that it even has its own catchphrase: the object-relational impedance mismatch (see resources).

  这个问题如此持久（不是故意一语双关，而是实情），以至于有了自己专用的术语对象关系阻抗失谐（请参阅 参考资料）。

• given that i「m probably going to be using a stack instance throughout my behavior class, i might as well push (no pun intended) that logic into a fixture, as i」ve done in listing 7.

  由于我可能在整个行为类中使用一个stack实例，我可能也会将那种逻辑推入（这里并非有意使用双关语）到一个fixture 中，正如清单7中那样。

• being able to properly validate and ensure that this attribute’s value is always present can be invaluable (no pun intended).

  能够正确验证并确保存在属性值是非常重要的（避免出现双关语）。

• i do this by pushing (no pun intended!) the onmoduleload() method「s definition-retrieving logic into a testable method, as shown in listing 3

  方法为将 onmoduleload()方法的定义获取逻辑推入（不是故意用双关语！）

• eat vegetarian as much as possible without giving up meat entirely . learn to enjoy vegetarian food before you quit meat cold turkey (no pun intended).

  没有完全放弃肉食时尽量食用素食 在拒食肉类冷火鸡（无意使用双关，coldturkey 还有停止坏习惯的意思）前学着享用素食食品。

• i could be cynical and say he probably did it hoping to make a killing -- pardon the pun -- but for the sake of the higher argument i」ll play along.

  我也许可以玩世不恭的说他这么做是希望开发出一个在市场上「必杀」的游戏——请原谅我的双关语——但为了更高层的论题，我权且同意他的话。

• rather than add all these variables -- no pun intended -- ensure that you start with a working vxml file.

  不要添加所有这些变量（没有双关的意思），务必从一个可正常工作的vxml文件入手。

• china is also the only economy of any size that is actually still growing, albeit at a subprime (no pun intended) 6-8 per cent.

  中国还是任何规模的经济体中唯一仍在增长的一个，尽管增速已降至「次一级的」（并非有意的双关语）6%-8%。

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