retorts

英 [rɪˈtɔːts]

美 [rɪˈtɔːrts]

v.  (生气或幽默地)反驳，回嘴
n.  (生气或幽默的)回应，反驳; 曲颈甑; 曲颈瓶; 蒸馏器
retort的第三人称单数和复数

柯林斯词典

• VERB 反驳;回嘴
  Toretortmeans to reply angrily to someone.
  1. Was he afraid, he was asked. 'Afraid of what?' he retorted...
     有人问他是否害怕。“害怕什么？”他反问道。
  2. Others retort that strong central power is a dangerous thing in Russia.
     其他人反驳说强大的中央集权在俄罗斯是很危险的。
  3. Retortis also a noun.
     
  4. His sharp retort clearly made an impact.
     他尖刻的反驳显然起了作用。

双语例句

• Mr Mayer retorts that even the IMF has learnt that its interventions work only if countries co-operate.
  梅耶反驳说，国际货币基金组织认识到，干预措施只有在各国协同合作时才能奏效。
• He mentions hedging the risk, but his boss retorts that in the next two years that will cost hundreds of millions of dollars in lost profits.
  首席风险官又建议对冲风险，但他的老板回击说这会使未来两年利润下降好几亿美金。
• Coupled heat transfer and chemical reactions in magnesium production retorts Energy-saving, consumption reducing and discharge abatement are the vitality of silicothermic reduction in magnesium metallurgy
  炼镁还原罐内传热与化学反应的耦合特性节能、降耗、减排是硅热法炼镁发展的生命力
• Churchill was also notorious for his witty retorts.
  丘吉尔也因为他机智诙谐的辩驳而出名。
• Be careful to avoid clever retorts or comedic one-liners here.
  小心，不要用“聪明的狡辩”或幽默来回答。
• His theory of ″ impersonality ″, the core of his aesthetic theory, retorts and overturns the traditional theories, but is also his contribution to the theories of English modernist novels.
  其中，非个性化和作家退出小说是乔伊斯美学思想的核心，这是他对传统的小说理论的反拨和颠覆，也是他对英国现代主义小说理论的重大贡献。
• An obsolete kind of container used for distillation; two retorts connected by a tube.
  用来蒸馏的陈旧的容器；两个蒸器用管子连接起来。
• Groupon retorts that it is simply spending heavily to scoop up subscribers while the market it created is in its infancy.
  groupon反驳道，其开创的这一市场尚处发展初期，赤字只不过是在争抢用户时投资过巨。
• Today, the retorts and pot stills have been largely supplanted by more efficient distillation methods in most industrial processes.
  如今，在许多工业过程中，绝大部分曲颈瓶和罐式蒸馏器已被效率更高的蒸馏方法代替。
• How persuasive are these answers? Both invite robust retorts.
  这两个答案都有值得反驳之处。