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Перевод: gibe
[существительное] насмешка ; колкость ; [глагол] насмехаться
Тезаурус:
- It also, she noted in passing, gave an added edge to Theodore Sykes's gibe about "a storm in a port glass".
- "I've never met any architects before," she said, ignoring his gibe.
- Her cheeks were flaming after Marc's last gibe.
- Whatever they were, she had "caught" the Emperor of the French who was determined to disprove the gibe of his cousin Prince Napoleon that "one does not marry Mademoiselle de Montijo".
- He describes how Sonya is driven out onto the streets by her step-mother's gibe - "Why not?
- If A knows in advance that B can't come, then he is being deceptive; but if he knows that B knows that he knows that B can't come, then he cannot be interpreted as requesting at all (utterance (i) might then be a joke, or if B is in an incapacitated (say, inebriated) state, perhaps a gibe).
- The gibe assailed her like a blow to the pit of the stomach.
- Boiotia's reputation for philistinism was a joke with which other Greeks never got bored, but neither in the visual arts nor in literature (Hesiod, Pindar) does the reality match the label "Boiotian swine", a gibe recorded by Pindar himself.
- That hurt, too, just like his gibe about the professor.
- The lift of one dark brow told her he recognised the gibe.
- This was a shrewd political gibe, but like so many of its kind it entirely missed the point at issue.
- And when we remember what Eliot did with the gibe, taking it over in the title of Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats , that collection of whimsical fireside charades in verse, we may well think again about Auden's comment that in English family life "it is becoming to entertain each other with witty remarks, hoaxes, family games and jokes".
- The joke could not be made today because Bragg (in response to that gibe?) has now written more overtly popular fiction, including two bestsellers.
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