jape

英 [d?e?p] 美[d?ep]

GRE暢通詞匯

復(fù)數(shù):?japes;

jape 玩笑，惡作劇

可能來自古法語gaber,嘲笑，捉弄，擬聲詞，詞源同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.: 即使一個小男生的戲言也可能有一些真義.

2. He became the public jape in school, because he overreached when imitating others.: 他因畫虎類犬在學(xué)校成了眾人的笑料.

3. Your experiments are aided by Jape, which can operate as both inquisitor and oracle.: 你的實驗被幫助透過說笑話, 作為能審問官和神諭所.

4. Sports competition is competition of science and technology, be afraid is not jape.: 體育競爭是科技競爭, 恐怕不是戲言.