gag

• vt. 塞住…的口；钳制…的言论；使窒息
• vi. 插科打诨；窒息；作呕
• n. 塞口物；讨论终结；箝制言论
• n. (Gag)人名；(英)加格

拟声词，模仿含糊不清的声音。

1. a humorous anecdote or remark intended to provoke laughter;

"he told a very funny joke"

"he knows a million gags"

"thanks for the laugh"

"he laughed unpleasantly at hisown jest"

"even a schoolboy's jape is supposed to have some ascertainable point"

2. restraint put into a person's mouth to prevent speaking or shouting

gag

gag: [15] Middle English gaggen meant ‘strangle, suffocate’, so the word started out with strong connotations that seem to have become submerged in local dialects as it came to be used more commonly in the milder sense ‘obstruct someone’s mouth’. In the 20th century, however, they have re-emerged in the intransitive sense ‘choke’. It is not clear how the 19th-century noun sense ‘joke’ is connected, if at all. As for the word’s source, it is generally said to have originated as an imitation of someone retching or choking.

gag (v.)

mid-15c., transitive, "to choke, strangle" (someone), possibly imitative and perhaps influenced by Old Norse gag-hals "with head thrown back." The sense of "stop a person's mouth by thrusting something into it" is first attested c. 1500. Intransitive sense of "to retch" is from 1707. Transitive meaning "cause to heave with nausea" is from 1945. Related: Gagged; gagging.

gag (n.2)

"a joke," 1863, especially a practical joke, probably related to theatrical sense of "matter interpolated in a written piece by the actor" (1847); or from the sense "made-up story" (1805); or from slang verbal sense of "to deceive, take in with talk" (1777), all of which perhaps are from gag (v.) on the notion of "to stuff, fill" (see gag (v.)). Gagster "comedian" is by 1932.

gag (n.1)

"something thrust into the mouth or throat to prevent speaking," 1550s, from gag (v.); figurative use, "violent or authoritative repression of speech," is from 1620s. Gag-law in reference to curbs on freedom of the press is from 1798, American English. The gag-rule that blocked anti-slavery petitions in the U.S. House of Representatives was in force from 1836 to 1844.

She gagged on the blood that filled her mouth.

她因嘴里充满了血而作呕。

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a gagging order (= one given by a court of law)

司法限制言论令

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a press gag

新闻禁刊令

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a gag rule/order (= one given by a court of law)

禁止发言规则；限制言论令

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to tell/crack a gag

讲 / 说笑话

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a running gag (= one that is regularly repeated during a performance)

连续重复的插科打诨

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It was just a gag─we didn't mean to upset anyone.

这只是逗着玩——我们并未想使任何人不高兴。

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The hostages were bound and gagged .

人质被绑起来并被用东西塞住了嘴。

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The new laws are seen as an attempt to gag the press.

人们认为新法律企图压制新闻界的言论自由。

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His captors had put a gag of thick leather in his mouth.

劫持者用一块厚厚的皮革堵住了他的嘴。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

I gagged him with a towel.

我用一条毛巾堵住他的嘴。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

Judges must not be gagged.

法官的言论自由不能受到压制。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

I knelt by the toilet and gagged.

我跪在马桶边，一阵恶心。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

...a gag about policemen giving evidence in court.

关于警察在法庭作证的一则笑话

柯林斯高阶英语词典

Girls everywhere are gagging for a car like this...

天底下的女孩儿都对这种车梦寐以求。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

There are thousands of students absolutely gagging to come to this university.

肯定有成千上万的学生都渴望到这所大学念书。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

Only if you put a gag on me.

除非你堵住我的口.

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" Nearly every strained gag depends on the sheer stupidity of its characters. "

“ 几乎每一处矫揉造作的笑料都来自剧中人物愚蠢十足的所作所为. ”

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Setting a roommate's alarm clock behind an hour is a common gag.

把室友的闹钟调回来一小时是唯一普通的把戏.

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But as the gag has it, we shouldn't be starting from here.

但正如老话所说, 我们不应该从这儿开始.

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Most of the other authors also went along with the gag.

其他的大部分作家也纷纷动笔.

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The gang tied up the security guard and put a gag in his mouth.

那帮歹徒把保安人员捆绑起来,然后把他的嘴堵住.

《简明英汉词典》

The types of basal ganglia agraphia were AAg, VAg, PAg, MAg and GAg.

基底神经节失写类型有:失语性失写 、 视空间性失写、惰性失写、镜像书写及完全性失写.

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There was this running gag about a penguin ( = they kept telling penguin jokes ).

人们不断讲关于一只企鹅的笑话.

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That gag gave me a blast!

那个笑话让我痛快极了!

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