记忆“jape”这个单词,可以将其与“joke”联系起来,因为“jape”是“joke”的另一种形式,指的是一种玩笑或者小恶作剧。你可以想象一个场景,有人在做一个小恶作剧,他们的表情和动作就像是开玩笑一样,这样就能更容易地记住“jape”的含义了。
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jape 玩笑,恶作剧可能来自古法语gaber,嘲笑,捉弄,拟声词,词源同gab,gibe.
- jape (v.)
- late 14c., "to trick, beguile, jilt," perhaps from Old French japer "to howl, bawl, scream," of echoic origin, or from Old French gaber "to mock, deride." Phonetics suits the former, but sense the latter explanation. Took on a slang sense mid-15c. of "have sex with," and disappeared from polite usage. Revived in harmless Middle English sense of "say or do something in jest" by Scott, etc. Related: Japed; japing.
- jape (n.)
- early 14c., "trick, deceit," later "a joke, a jest" (late 14c.); see jape (v.). By mid-14c. it meant "frivolous pastime," by 1400, "bawdiness."
- 1. Even a schoolboy's jape is supposed to have some ascertainable point.
- 即使一个小男生的戏言也可能有一些真义.
- 2. He became the public jape in school, because he overreached when imitating others.
- 他因画虎类犬在学校成了众人的笑料.
- 3. Your experiments are aided by Jape, which can operate as both inquisitor and oracle.
- 你的实验被帮助透过说笑话, 作为能审问官和神谕所.
- 4. Sports competition is competition of science and technology, be afraid is not jape.
- 体育竞争是科技竞争, 恐怕不是戏言.