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Something you do so that people laugh at someone, most often by copying them in a funny, stretched way. A piss-take of a singer might copy the walk, the voice, and the way they hold a note until the room laughs. It can be a sketch, an impression, a fake-serious face, or a joke that pretends to mean the opposite.
Something you do做一件事情 so that people laugh at someone讓大家笑某個人, most often by copying them in a funny, stretched way最常見的方式是用誇張搞笑的方式模仿他們。 A piss-take of a singer拿一個歌手來piss-take, might copy the walk, the voice, and the way they hold a note可能會模仿他走路、說話的聲音,還有拖音的方式, until the room laughs直到全場笑出來。 It can be a sketch, an impression, a fake-serious face它可以是一個短劇、一段模仿、一張假裝正經的臉, or a joke that pretends to mean the opposite或是一個表面說反話的玩笑。
This is strongly British, Irish, Australian and New Zealand English. It comes from the everyday phrase take the piss.
This is strongly British, Irish, Australian and New Zealand English這是很典型的英國、愛爾蘭、澳洲和紐西蘭用語。 It comes from the everyday phrase take the piss它來自日常的片語take the piss。
Among friends it can feel warm: we take the piss because we are close. Though actually, it can also be . If the other person cannot laugh with you, you are not sharing a joke — you are putting them down.
Among friends it can feel warm朋友之間這樣做可以是溫暖的: we take the piss because we are close我們互相piss-take是因為我們夠麻吉。 Though actually不過其實, it can also be unkind它也可能是不友善的。 If the other person cannot laugh with you如果對方沒辦法跟你一起笑, you are not sharing a joke你們就不是在分享一個玩笑—— you are putting them down而是在貶低他們。
Americans are more likely to say a parody or just making fun. It is informal, and a bit crude because of piss, but nobody means urine.
Americans are more likely to say a parody or just making fun美國人比較會說a parody或just making fun。 It is informal, and a bit crude because of piss這個詞很口語,因為有piss這個字所以有點粗俗, but nobody means urine但沒有人真的是在講尿。
組成From the British phrase take the piss, meaning to mock someone. A piss-take is the thing you do when you are doing that — often a copy that makes people laugh.
同家族的字
- pissthe same rude word; here it is not about urine, but about mocking someone
原始詞典資料4 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
piss-takenoun/ˈpɪsteɪk/
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vulgarslangAn instance of taking the piss.
- You don't mind me saying this, but this is not a piss-take, is it? Because I know a few impressionists and you could be one of them.
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vulgarslangA parody.
- The slogan reminds me of Team America, the puppet piss-take of Bush era military interventionism brought to you by the creators of Whale Whores ('America: fuck, yeah!'). But this is no piss-take.
- What's so funny about Maggie Smith's dowager of Downton is that it's basically a piss-take; but so good a piss-take that everyone takes it for real, because that's how we'd like to view our decaying aristocracy.
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vulgarslangAn unpleasant situation that is comparable to a parody.
- this job is a piss take.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形:
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。