Repartee

(noun.) adroitness and cleverness in reply.

校对:莎娜

• Mr. Rochester, allow me to disown my first answer: I intended no pointed repartee: it was only a blunder. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• I am a very matter-of-fact, plain-spoken being, and may blunder on the borders of a repartee for half an hour together without striking it out. 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.
• Perhaps not,' said Fascination Fledgeby, with great quickness of repartee; 'but I expect it will be devilish warm to-morrow. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.

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