“挖苦”，意思是用刻薄的话讥笑、讽刺别人，可以翻译为“speak ironically/sarcastically”。还可以用短语“take a dig at”表示，意思是“intentionally insult, offend, demean or be derogatory towards another person”，dig作名词有“挖苦；嘲讽”的意思。

 

例句：

 

我这门语言讲得不错，但她还是忍不住挖苦我的口音。

I can speak the language very well, but she still couldn't resist taking a dig at my accent.

 

那是对我的挖苦。

That was meant to be a dig at me.