美 [pʌntʃ laɪn]
点睛之笔：在笑话或故事中起到点睛之笔的句子、陈述或短语。
punchline /ˈpʌntʃlaɪn/
可数名词 The punchline of a joke or funny story is its last sentence or phrase, which makes it funny. 笑话或警句令人发笑的最后一行
the point of a joke or humorous story
同义词： laugh line / gag line / tag line
妙语-引用次数：2
By the study, the author proposed that in an ideal condition, to interpret verbal humor, the procedures of English humor interpretation perhaps consist of five steps: forming a presupposed ending about the punch line when interpreting the set-up part of the joke, coming across an unexpected reply when reading the punch line part, realizing being misled by the speaker and felling more curious about the intentional meaning of the speaker, reinterpreting the joke to derive the implication of the speaker and inferring the attitudes of the speaker.
通过研究,本文作者认为在理想状况下,幽默的理解过程也许由五个步骤组成:通过对幽默铺垫部分的解读产生预期妙语句,妙语句的出现使读者产生意外之感,意识到被幽默讲述者误导而产生对言者意图的更大的好奇心,在好奇心的驱使下重新阅读前文某些部分或者全文以抽取言者的隐含意,最终推导出言者通过讲述这则幽默笑话所要表达的他本人的观点和态度。
哎, 你们都是太认真了, 我的怪论的妙语(punch line)是在"穿衣服"啊!
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I can’t tell you the joke, I forgot the punch line.
我无法将这个故事转述给你，因为我忘了当中最好笑的部分。
The punch line, of course, is that you need to do both.
最妙的当然还是你两种都做。
She tried to be funny, but the punch line didn't make any body laugh.
她拼命想说得滑稽，但是她那句逗笑的话却一点没引人发笑。
and women love those kinds of things. It had this catchy little punch line, 'Giddy on up and giddy on out,' which is very representative of my sense of humor."
VOA : standard.2010.06.18
And not just being a ubiquitous punch line and those occasionally uncomfortably close-to-accurate Sopranos storylines.
Except that the punch line is that men have put on dresses and make up.
Apple needs to wake up before they become the next punch line in jokes like RIM.