showing that you think something is funny but also disappointing or annoying 啼笑皆非的 ‘At least we got one vote,’ she said with a wry smile. “我们起码还得了一票。” 她苦笑着解嘲道。 🔊🔊 He pulled a wry face when I asked him how it had gone. 我问他近况如何，他有些哭笑不得。 🔊🔊
funny in a way that shows irony 挖苦的；讽刺的；揶揄的 It's a wry comedy about family life. 这是一部关于家庭生活的喜剧片。 a wry comment 挖苦的评论 He didn't even seem to notice her wry humour. 他甚至似乎都没有注意到她的幽默。 The film takes a wry look at the British class system. 影片对英国的阶级制度投去了嘲弄的一瞥。
Word Originearly 16th cent. (in the sense ‘contorted’): from Old English wrīgian ‘tend, incline’, in Middle English ‘deviate, swerve, contort’.