tongue-in-cheek
英 [ˌtʌŋ ɪn ˈtʃiːk]
美 [ˌtʌŋ ɪn ˈtʃiːk]
adj. 言不由衷的; 随便说说的; 开玩笑的
adv. 无诚意地
牛津词典
adj.
- 言不由衷的；随便说说的；开玩笑的
not intended seriously; done or said as a joke- a tongue-in-cheek remark
一句戏言
- a tongue-in-cheek remark
柯林斯词典
- → see:tongue
英英释义
adj
- cleverly amusing in tone
- a bantering tone
- facetious remarks
- tongue-in-cheek advice
adv
- not seriously
- I meant it facetiously
- in a bantering fashion
- he spoke to her banteringly
双语例句
- Thus this was tongue-in-cheek fashion, the liquid bronze metallic dresses with moulded exaggerated hips poking fun at the old-fashioned notions of what was to come.
因此，这曾是半开玩笑的时尚，液态青铜色金属材质的衣裙，带着塑形夸张的髋部，取笑着那些对未来事物的老式看法。 - 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。 - He offered some tongue-in-cheek advice about keeping out of the rain.
他就避免淋雨出了些似真非真的主意。 - The IgNobel Prizes, intended as a tongue-in-cheek alternative to their official counterparts, were presented by genuine Nobel prizewinners in the US late on Thursday.
上星期四，获奖者出席了在美国举行的颁奖仪式。与传统的诺贝尔奖相比，它有些搞笑而标新立异。 - It's almost like a tongue-in-cheek play on the climactic moment of a traditional car chase.
这就好似一出传统追车戏在高潮部分突然变成了一出哑剧。 - Were they written tongue-in-cheek, or with an underlying conviction?
它们只是随便写出来的呢，还是有什么深层的信念？ - Over the years the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has released a couple of tongue-in-cheek zombie warnings, which really are just disaster-preparedness stunts.
在过去的几年里，美国疾病控制和防御中心也曾发布过数十条半开玩笑地僵尸预警，不过这只是预防疾病的噱头而已。 - 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。 - It seems tongue-in-cheek to me because at that point in history, people knew that this way of looking at the world was no longer relevant.
这在我看来有些半开玩笑的性质，因为在那个历史时期，人们已经知道这样看待世界不再有意义。 - This is all slightly tongue-in-cheek, I'd like to make that clear
这一切都有些缺少诚意，我想清楚地指出这点。