wry
adjective /raɪ/
/raɪ/
[usually before noun]- showing that you think something is funny but also disappointing or annoying
啼笑皆非的 - ‘At least we got one vote,’ she said with a wry smile.
“我们起码还得了一票。” 她苦笑着解嘲道。 - He pulled a wry face when I asked him how it had gone.
我问他近况如何，他有些哭笑不得。
- ‘At least we got one vote,’ she said with a wry smile.
- funny in a way that shows irony
挖苦的；讽刺的；揶揄的 - It's a wry comedy about family life.
这是一部关于家庭生活的讽刺喜剧。 - a wry comment
挖苦的评论 - He didn't even seem to notice her wry humour.
他似乎根本没有注意到她的幽默。 - The film takes a wry look at the British class system.
影片对英国的阶级制度投去了嘲弄的一瞥。
- It's a wry comedy about family life.
词源early 16th cent. (in the sense ‘contorted’): from Old English wrīgian ‘tend, incline’, in Middle English ‘deviate, swerve, contort’.