limerick

英 [ˈlɪmərɪk]

美 [ˈlɪmərɪk]

n.  五行打油诗(幽默短诗，起始两长句押韵，中间两短句押韵，最后一长句与开头两句押韵)

复数：limericks　

GRE

Collins.1 / BNC.24831 / COCA.26891

牛津词典

noun

• 五行打油诗（幽默短诗，起始两长句押韵，中间两短句押韵，最后一长句与开头两句押韵）
  a humorous short poem, with two long lines that rhyme with each other, followed by two short lines that rhyme with each other and ending with a long line that rhymes with the first two

柯林斯词典

• 五行打油诗
  Alimerickis a humorous poem which has five lines.

英英释义

noun

• a humorous verse form of 5 anapestic lines with a rhyme scheme aabba

双语例句

• Department of Physical Education and Sport Sciences of the University of Limerick, Ireland.
  爱尔兰大学体育教育及运动训练系；
• I decided to write a limerick about you!
  我想写一首关于你的打油诗。
• He is full of imagination and can knock off a limerick in a few minutes.
  他富于想象方，只几分钟就能写出1首五行打油诗。
• My mother, the former Angela Sheehan, grew up in a Limerick slum with her mother, two brothers, Thomas and Patrick, and a sister, Agnes.
  我妈妈婚前的名字叫安吉拉。什罕，她在利默里克一个贫民窟里长大，和她妈妈、两个兄弟托马斯和帕特里克以及一个妹妹艾格尼斯住在一起。
• Joseph Walsh's work has been exhibited in Hunt Museum in Limerick.
  约瑟夫沃尔什氏工作已在亨特在Limerick博物馆展出。
• Will someone please help me fill in the blanks in my limerick?
  有谁愿意帮我填五行打油诗？
• But in Limerick they'd laugh at you.
  但是在利默尼里克，他们会笑话你的。
• I include here, in spite of its awkward rhyme and stumbling meter, a little-known but apt limerick on the topic of JSP scripting elements.
  我在这里给出了一首关于JSP脚本元素的打油诗（虽然有点不押韵），虽不太出名但非常切题。
• The traditional limerick, which is usually off color and hence circulated orally, could be considered folk poetry.
  传统的五行打油诗可以看作是民间诗歌，这种打油诗通常内容粗俗，所以仅仅流传于口头。
• If he gets a job at the Limerick Cement Company or Ranks Flour Mills, he loses it in the third week.
  要是他在利默里克水泥厂或者兰克面粉厂找到工作，不出三周就会丢掉它。