英语释义

• cleverly amusing in tone;

  "a bantering tone"

  "facetious remarks"

  "tongue-in-cheek advice"

• in a bantering fashion;

  "he spoke to her banteringly"

• not seriously;

  "I meant it facetiously"

片语

unbusinesslike无条理的；效率不高的；不认真的

halfhearted不认真的；不热心的；无兴趣的

insincerelyad 无诚意地；不诚实地

英汉例句

• In a Times article on Nov. 16, 1999, Ms. Knauss was telling people he「d make a fine President, and fending off tongue-in-cheek questions about whether she」d redecorate the White House.

  在1999年11月16日的一篇时报报道中，克瑙斯告诉人们，他会成为一名好总统，并开玩笑地回答了关于她是否会重新布置白宫的问题。

• Cartoonist Tony Auth reverses Superman「s routine to make a tongue-in-cheek comment on California」s new governor, 56-year-old muscleman Arnold Schwarzenegger.

  漫画家托尼·奥特把超人的这一惯常做法倒了过来，用以取笑加州新州长- - - 56岁的肌肉发达的阿诺德·施瓦辛格。

• Too many people actually believe in Meskimen「s tongue-in-cheek law of quality: 「There」s never time to do it right, but always time to do it over.」

  太多的人实际上相信Meskimen的半开玩笑的质量定则：「没有时间正确的做它，但是总有时间做完它」。

• The rumor came from a tongue-in-cheek comment from Turner that he would colorize the film in order to bait critics of the process.

  其实谣言始于特纳自己，在一次半开玩笑的评论中，他说如果他为本片上色的话一定会吸引评论家的眼球。

• MEXICO: First class passengers on a recent Aeromexico flight were confronted by a slithery stowaway, in a jaw-dropping scene reminiscent of the tongue-in-cheek action film 「Snakes in a Plane.」

  墨西哥国际航空一航班头等舱发现一个滑溜的「偷渡者」，令人惊掉下巴的场面，让人想起搞笑的动作电影《飞机上的蛇》。

• But these apps aren「t so much products as they are tongue-in-cheek jokes about how we interact with technology.

  但是这些应用程序并不是些完全不认真的玩笑式的程序。

• A food-show video spoof has become a tasty topic for China」s ravenous netizens, with most finding the tongue-in-cheek parody deliciously funny.

  一个美食节目恶搞视频近日成为中国网友津津乐道的话题，很多人都觉得这个恶搞视频很好笑，看着也让人食欲大动。

• Others however, take a more tongue-in-cheek approach to comparing uncomfortable realities — such as the fact that the depiction of women is the same in both men「s and women」s magazines.

  然而，其他的象形图，以一种更像开玩笑的方式来比较让人不爽的现实——比如女人的形象在男女的杂志中是一样的。

• OK, now for one that「s a little more tongue-in-cheek and likely stems from an actor」s style rather than anything intentional on Ridley「s part, but is still so humorous and it」s silly to not mention.

  这个片段可能是影片中比较随意的一段，源于一位男演员的表演风格，并非刻意加入。但是这一片段依旧很幽默，十分值得一提。

• Appropriating the aesthetics of a television documentary the short film offers a tongue-in-cheek insight into our search for happiness and freedom.

  短片通过对电视纪录美学的应用，针对关于幸福感和自由的研究表达了其诙谐滑稽的看法。

• Don「t take her so seriously, that was just a tongue-in-cheek remark.

  不要对此太认真，她只是半开玩笑地说这话的。

• These tongue-in-cheek annual awards are bestowed upon those who dabble in some very strange science. Here are some of last year’s winners.

  这些每年一度全属玩票性质的颁奖是授予在某些冷辟科学有所建树的人士.以下是去年的一些得主名单!

• While the slowdown has alarmed many Chinese media outlets and netizens, Slumping Economy takes a tongue-in-cheek approach.

  虽然经济降温给许多中国媒体和网民敲响了警钟，但「不景气」却采取了一种半开玩笑的态度。

• She really took offense at what you said. ---I didn」t mean to offend her. I was simply making a tongue-in-cheek remark when i said that it was too elaborate for a girl of her young, tender age.

  我本无意冒犯她，当我说像他这么年轻的女孩这样打扮太隆重啦时仅仅只是开个玩笑而已。

• All tongue-in-cheek aside, these really are three significant camps within the spectrum of Rich Internet Application technologies. Simon goes on to explain the philosophy he favors.

  把上面的风凉话放到一旁，在RIA技术的范围中确实存在着3个重要的阵营。

• The conservative tea-party movement expelled Mark Williams, one of its senior leaders, after he wrote a tongue-in-cheek letter to Abraham Lincoln from the perspective of 「coloured」 people.

  他给亚伯拉罕·林肯从有色人种的观点写了一封讥讽挖苦的信之后，保守的tea - party运动驱逐了它的一个高级领导人威廉斯。