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小词详解 | retort
retort 英 [rɪˈtɔːt] 美 [rɪˈtɔːrt]
The common retort to such concerns is that humans are far more cognitively adaptable than beasts of burden.
对这类担忧最常见的反驳是人类在认知上的适应性要比役畜强得多。
——《经济学人》Mr. Stephens said that many have advised him that he's missing out by not going to college, where, the rationale goes, he could be meeting women and drinking beer. His retort: "I like guys and Champagne."
斯蒂芬说,有不少人都对他说从大学辍学会让他失去不少机会,他原本可以借读大学之机认识女生、大喝啤酒,他对此反唇相讥:“我更喜欢男生和香槟。”
——《纽约时报》
[动词] 以尖锐、愤怒或机智的方式回应某个言辞
那个衣冠楚楚、野心勃勃的政客以反问答问。
The sleek and ambitious politician retorted a question by another question.我顶了他几句。
I said a few words to him in retort.
She was about to retort but something checked the words on her tongue.
她刚要抢白两句,可是话到嘴边又咽了回去。
rejoin: return to (a companion, organization, or route that one has left) riposte: make a quick, clever reply to an insult or criticism return: feel, say, or do (the same feeling, action, etc.) in response