n. 戲弄
He told her how the boys had set on him, teasing him. 他告訴她那些男孩曾是如何攻擊他、取笑他的。
He was always teasing his sisters. 他總是戲弄他的姐妹們。
Don't get upset—I was only teasing. 別不高興,我只是在逗你玩。
He was only teasing you. 他只是逗你玩玩罷了。
Sara was not amused by Franklin's teasing. 莎拉沒有被弗蘭克林的逗趣兒逗笑。
"But we're having such fun, aren't we?" he protested with a teasing smile. “可是我們現在玩得正開心,不是嗎?”他帶著戲謔的微笑申辯著。
Oh, Tom, you poor thick-headed thing, I'm not teasing you. 喔,湯姆,你這個可憐的笨蛋,我不是在跟你開玩笑。
With so much at stake, the Inuit are determined to play a key role in teasing out the mysteries of climate change in the Arctic. 面臨如此多的危險,因紐特人決心在揭開北極氣候變化之謎方面發揮關鍵作用。
Postulating the effect is one thing; teasing it out from the cobweb of climatic feedback loops and estimating its magnitude is something else altogether. 假設其影響是一碼事,在氣候反饋循環的蛛絲馬跡中對其研究,並評估其重要性則完全是另外一碼事。
Still, the teasing continued. 那些對我的取笑依然繼續著。
Sarah: I'm just teasing. 薩拉:我是在開玩笑。
We can conjure other teasing theories. 我們當然也可以想像得出其它的情境。
He is only teasing. Don't take it so seriously. 他不過是戲弄而已,別太當回事兒。
But teasing out the culinary panacea has been slow going. 但取笑廚房裡的靈丹妙藥一直發展緩慢。
Always eating candy and teasing the kids without any. 不停吃糖然後饞那些沒糖的小孩。
I'm teasing you. Didn't you see that it was a metaphor? 我逗你玩兒呢。我只是打個比方而已。
I live for laughing and teasing and I have never met a stranger. 我喜歡歡笑和戲弄,而且我從來沒有遇見過陌生人。
You can even throw in some very light teasing, but limit it. 你甚至還可以開一些非常輕微地玩笑,但是要適可而止。
Teasing out the root cause of anorgasmia is another challenge. 探究出性障礙的真正原因又是一項挑戰。
But what did you mean by teasing the creature in that manner, Cathy? 可是你那樣取笑這個東西是什麼意思呢,凱蒂?
And because I'm an outsider, I quickly become the object of teasing. 並且因為我是一個局外人,我很快成為了取笑的對象。
Then Joyce finally explained that Jessica's teasing bothered her. 最後喬依絲終於解釋說潔西卡的逗弄讓她很受不了。
Teasing can be overwhelmingly negative yet delivered with positive emotion. 取笑可以在極消極的情況下仍傳遞積極情緒。
Teasing out why that might be is a tricky job – but potentially worth it. 要搞清楚為什麼會是這樣,的確是件棘手的活兒——但可能是非常值得的。
One early recollection involved teasing about a man having more than one wife. 有一段小時候的回憶是關於嘲笑一個男人擁有不只一個老婆。
Amy did get her wish of a special day without teasing at South Wayne Elementary School. 艾米的確實現了她的願望,在南韋恩堡國小度過了沒有取笑的一天。
But at the end of the day, Amy was still thinking about the tall boy's mean teasing. 但是在那天結束時,艾米仍然想著那個高個男孩低劣的嘲笑。
This often means teasing out targets that are very far away or small, and hence faint. 這是因為想搞清楚的目標實在是太遠了或者是太小了,因此很模糊。