He was walking a fine line between being funny and being rude.

他想滑稽而不粗鲁，难以把握分寸。

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"Being funny isn't necessarily an indicator of good social skills and well-being," his research has shown, "it may just exactly be a sign of personality flaws."

他的研究表明：“有趣不一定是良好的社交技能和健康的标志，而可能恰恰是人格缺陷的标志。”

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Roy: Am I being funny?

罗伊：我有什么好笑的？

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Usually, a person is clowning around if he is being funny when he should be serious.

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So it turns out whoever thought of this was either being funny or just not creative that day.

所以结果是，那个时候无论是谁想出的这个，要么是可笑的,要么是没创造性的。

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But, it ceased being funny, and it was nothing like the siege of Leningrad where something like a million people died in World War Two of starvation; but, there were all sorts of little caskets being dragged along to what passed then for mortuaries.

但是,这不再那么有趣了,而这和列宁格勒之围比就相形见绌了,二战时期的大概有一百万人,被活活饿死,但是,巴黎有各种棺材,被拖到太平间去

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Electronic Arts' version of The Simpsons rotates between being funny, stupid, annoying, and great fun.

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Soon the joke will stop being funny because it will stop being true.

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This clunky botch is evidence that, though improvisational skills can be learned, being funny is a gift, one that is little in evidence here.

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