retort 的 2 个定义
- to reply to, usually in a sharp or retaliatory way; reply in kind to.
- to return upon the person uttering it.
- to answer by another to the contrary.
- a severe, incisive, or witty reply, especially one that counters a first speaker's statement, argument, etc.
- the act of retorting.
retort 近义词
snappy answer
answer
更多retort例句
- Last week, The Lancet published a retort from a team led by Temple University biologist Enrico Bucci.
- When the body goes into the retort, the first thing to burn is its cardboard box, or “alternative container” as it’s called on the funeral bill.
- My grandfather’s witty retort kept coming to mind this year.
- The Ralph Retort, a paragon of ethical journalism websites, decided to make crowdsourcing stuff to discredit me into a project.
- “I want Ebola to leave Liberia, so I can go to school,” came the snappy retort deciphered by locals.
- (To which the obvious retort was: the Christ-like thing to do would be to forgive me).
- That remark prompted a sharp retort from Russian President Vladimir Putin.
- Here's a Boehner retort to Sean Hannity (via Buzzfeed's Rebecca Berg).
- There is nothing like a plaintive retort when your case is utterly indefensible.
- In conversing with foreigners, if they speak slightingly of the manners of your country, do not retort rudely, or resentfully.
- Probably he lays hold of the elements of experience and casts them into a seeming retort of reveries.
- The whole mass is then transferred to a retort and distilled over a slow fire.
- "But my rings always make tusks more beautiful," was his retort.