jesting

英 [ˈdʒestɪŋ]

美 [ˈdʒestɪŋ]

v.  开玩笑; 说笑话
jest的现在分词

GRE

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 笑话；打趣；玩笑
  Ajestis something that you say that is intended to be amusing.
  1. It was a jest rather than a reproach...
     这与其说是责备，还不如说是句玩笑呢。
  2. The men talk as cheerfully as ever; jests are bandied about freely.
     男人们像往常一样高兴地聊着，彼此间随意开着玩笑。
• VERB 说笑话；开玩笑；打趣
  If youjest, you tell jokes or say amusing things.
  1. He enjoyed drinking and jesting with his cronies...
     他喜欢和老朋友喝喝酒、开开玩笑。
  2. A newspaper half jested: Had alcohol not already killed him, this would surely drive him to drink.
     一份报纸半开玩笑地写道：要不是喝酒已经要了他的命，这肯定会让他想要喝上一杯。

英英释义

adj

• characterized by jokes and good humor
  Synonym:jocosejocularjoking

双语例句

• There is no jesting in war.
  军中无戏言。
• Though generally they have trouble and are tormented and restless and worried in mind or in body, they hide their cares behind their humour and jesting and are considered very good friends to know.
  虽然通常他们的心理和身体上有许多困难、苦恼、焦躁不安，但他们会以幽默和玩笑将其隐藏，只有非常好的朋友才知道背后真相。
• He added, in a jesting way, that perhaps George Washington might gain almost as great a name in history as George the third.
  他还开玩笑说乔治-华盛顿也许会名标青史，跟乔治三世不相上下。
• It's no matter for jesting.
  没有取笑的理由。
• His smiles, his forgiveness, his sometimes pleasant jesting were all a horrible offence.
  他的微笑、他的饶恕、他那有时有趣的俏皮话，完全是一种可怕的进攻。
• He did it rarely but now he could not resist jesting with the Don.
  他很少这样但是现在他无法抗拒和老爷子打趣的冲动。
• She was not entirely at ease with the jesting Birdsong.
  她和爱开玩笑的伯德桑在一起并不感到很自在。
• Stop jesting with me because I am busy!
  别跟我开玩笑了，我很忙！
• Times when he relaxed his mind by jesting and broad anecdotes.
  有时候他开开玩笑，讲一些无所顾忌的趣闻轶事，以此放松头脑。
• HW wasn't jesting when he said he was going to get married next month.
  他说下个月结婚时不是开玩笑。