limerick

n.五行打油诗（一种通俗幽默短诗，有五行组成，韵式为aabba）

noun

1. 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

n. 五行打油诗（一种通俗幽默短诗，有五行组成，韵式为aabba） n. (Limerick)人名；(英)利默里克

名词复数形式:limericks

1. 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。
2. 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。
3. I decided to write a limerick about you!
   我想写一首关于你的打油诗。
4. Will someone please help me fill in the blanks in my limerick?
   有谁愿意帮我填五行打油诗？
5. 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。
6. 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。
7. 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。
8. But in Limerick they'd laugh at you.
   但是在利默尼里克，他们会笑话你的。
9. 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；
10. 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。