词组 | shaggy dog (story) |
释义 | shaggy dog (story)n. phr.A special kind of joke whose long and often convoluted introduction and development delay the effect of the punch line. 冗长而不着边际的笑话。◆ Uncle Joe only seems to bore his audiences with his long shaggy dog jokes, for when he comes to the longawaited punch line, he gets very few laughs.乔大叔不着边际的冗长笑话似乎只会使他的听众感到厌烦,因为当他讲到人们等候已久的妙句时,几乎无人发笑。 |
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