tease
柯林斯词典
1. V-T To tease someone means to laugh at them or make jokes about them in order to embarrass, annoy, or upset them. 嘲笑; 取笑
He told her how the boys had set on him, teasing him. 他告訴她那些男孩曾是如何攻擊他、取笑他的。
He teased me mercilessly about going Hollywood. 他無情地取笑我想去好萊隖。
2. N-COUNT Tease is also a noun. 嘲笑; 取笑
Calling her by her real name had always been one of his teases. 稱呼她的真名曾是他一貫的取笑方式之一。
3. N-COUNT If you refer to someone as a tease, you mean that they like laughing at people or making jokes about them. 愛嘲笑他人者; 愛取笑他人者
My brother's such a tease. 我弟弟就愛取笑他人。
4. V-T If someone teases their hair, they separate the individual strands from each other, for example by combing it. 梳理
Her hair was teased until it stood out and around her face. 她的頭發被梳得直垂在臉旁。
...two women in party dresses and teased hair. …兩位身著禮服、頭發梳理整齊的婦女。
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tease /tiːz/ (teasing,teased,teases)
剑桥词典
- Don't tease him about his weight - it's cruel .
- He said he was going to leave us there, but I think he was only teasing.
- They teased him mercilessly about his accent .
tease verb [I or T] (MAKE FUN OF)
to laugh at someone or say unkind things about them, either because you are joking or because you want to upset that person戯弄，逗弄；取笑，招惹
I used to hate being teased about my red hair when I was at school . 我上學期間一直討厭別人取笑我的紅頭發。
I was just teasing, I didn't mean to upset you. 我衹是在開玩笑，不是有意要惹你難過的。
例句
tease verb [I or T] (HAIR)
US (UK backcomb)to hold your hair away from your head and brush it towards your head with a comb , in order to make it look thicker
反梳（頭發）使之蓬起