riposte

noun

/rɪˈpɒst/

/rɪˈpəʊst/

(formal)

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a quick and clever reply, especially to criticism機敏的回答；巧妙的反駁 synonym retort
- a witty riposte機智的回答
a course of action that takes place in response to something that has happened反應；回應
- The US delivered an early riposte to the air attack.美國對空襲很快作出了反應。

Word Originearly 18th cent.: from French risposte (noun), risposter (verb), from Italian risposta ‘response’.

verb

/rɪˈpɒst/

/rɪˈpəʊst/

[transitive, intransitive] (formal)

Verb Forms

present simple I / you / we / they riposte	/rɪˈpɒst/ /rɪˈpəʊst/
he / she / it ripostes	/rɪˈpɒsts/ /rɪˈpəʊsts/
past simple riposted	/rɪˈpɒstɪd/ /rɪˈpəʊstɪd/
past participle riposted	/rɪˈpɒstɪd/ /rɪˈpəʊstɪd/
-ing form riposting	/rɪˈpɒstɪŋ/ /rɪˈpəʊstɪŋ/

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to make a quick and clever reply to somebody/something, especially to a criticism機敏的回答；巧妙的反駁
- riposte + speech ‘You are as ill-informed as usual,’ she riposted. “你和往常一樣消息不靈通，”她反駁道。
- riposte that… At once he riposted that his country had no link with insurgents.他立刻回擊說，他的國家與叛亂分子沒有聯系。
- riposte with something The MP riposted with some more, quite different, statistics. 這位議員用一些更不同的統計數據進行了回擊。