| 释义 |
●a play on ˈwordsa clever or amusing use of a word that has more than one meaning, or of words that have different meanings but sound similar/the same; a pun 语带双关；双关语；俏皮话◆When Elvis Presley had his hair cut off in the army he said, ‘Hair today and gone tomorrow’. It was a play on words — the usual expression is ‘here today and gone tomorrow.’
当埃尔维斯∙普雷斯利在军队里把头发剪短的时候，他说hair today and gone tomorrow（今日有头发，明天就没了）。这是一个双关语，通常的说法是here today and gone tomorrow（今日在此，明日离开）。▸ ˈwordplay noun ◆Many of the jokes are based on puns and wordplay.
许多笑话都是基于双关语的巧妙使用。 |