我想跟他们开个玩笑。

I wanted to play a joke on them.

youdao

是的，我可以跟我的朋友开个愚蠢的玩笑。

Yes, I can make a silly joke to my friend.

youdao

不，我只是开个玩笑，我们希望给自己找个好借口。

No, I'm kidding. We wish there was that good an excuse.

youdao

What about Milwaukee? Nobody from Milwaukee -I might be insulting Milwaukeeans when I talk about this--not really.

有从密尔沃基来的吗,没人,我谈论这个时有可能,会得罪密尔沃基人,开个玩笑

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I know you don't remember that far back, but in about the second lecture I made a joke of Professor Guttag which, you know, you didn't laugh at, he didn't laugh at, that's okay.

我知道你们可能不记得了，但是在大约是第二节课,我对Guttag开了个玩笑，你们懂得，你们没笑，他也没笑，这没什么。

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