We say a joke is "corny" if it is stupid.
如果一个笑话很蠢，我们会说它是“陈词滥调”。
Eight hours on a bus is no joke, is it.
坐８个小时的公交车可不是闹着玩儿的，对吧。
"It is no joke, Mr. Sesemann," replied the lady seriously.
“这不是开玩笑，赛赛曼先生。”小姐严肃地回答。
Your best friend is telling you a joke, but you can't catch it!
你最好的朋友在给你讲笑话，你却听不懂！
This is a serious matter; let's not joke about it.
这是正经事， 可别打哈哈。
这可不是说着玩儿。
A bitter joke from the Soviet-era has it that Russia is the world's only country with an unpredictable past.
前苏联时期，曾有这样一个冷笑话——俄国是世界上唯一一个有着不确定的过去的国家。
It might seem like a joke, but it is a real bias that people demonstrate.
这似乎看上去像一个笑话，但这是人们表露出来的确实存在于现实中的偏见。
It is not the first time this type of joke has cropped up on Google, a few years ago users reported being told to swim across the Atlantic if they asked for directions from New York to London.
据悉，这不是谷歌公司第一“开玩笑”了，前几年，当用户搜索怎样从纽约前往伦敦的时候，用户还被谷歌提示可以“游泳”横跨大西洋呢。
That's not chump change, nor is it an April Fool's joke.
这个变化不是开玩笑，这也不是愚人节的一则笑话。
It HAS become a joke for The Economist to say that a country is at a crossroads, yet for Turkey it happens to be spot on.
对《经济学人》而言，称一个国家处于十字路口，已成玩笑，然而此说法用在土耳其身上，却准确无误。
We are even put out of humour if our companion laughs louder or longer at a joke than we think it deserves; that is, than we feel that we ourselves could laugh at it.
对于一个笑话，如果我们感觉到同伴笑得声音比我们大，时间比我们长，而我们自己却做不到这样，结果就会出现坏心情。
He's guilty of taking a perfectly fine joke and selling it as the second coming of Oscar Wilde: "Okay, this is a good one.
他对说出完美的笑话和把它像奥斯卡王尔德的作品样推出怀有愧疚感。
Even though it is a “joke”, there is a lot of truth to the concept.
尽管只是个笑话，但也揭示了一些简单的道理。
That sounds like a joke, but it happens so often to varying degrees in large programming projects that there is a name for the phenomenon, Greenspun's Tenth rule.
这样做听上去好像开玩笑，但是在大型编程项目中，却不同程度地广泛存在。
It is just a cruel joke of nature.
这就是大自然开的一个残忍玩笑。
Yet this question is by no means a joke, and the answer to it is by no means a guess; on the contrary, both are real scientific results.
然而，我们提出这个问题，可不是逗笑，它的答案也绝对不能去猜测，相反的，这个问题的提出和它的答案，都是真正的科学成果。
The old joke that there is nothing so permanent as a temporary migrant has more than a grain of truth in it.
有一个老笑话说“没有什么比这些临时工人更永久的了”，现在这已经不止是一个笑话了。
Laughing at the same joke would help us to show affiliation with others, and this may be why it is especially contagious.
就同一个笑话大笑能展示我们对别人的接纳和认可，这也许是为什么大笑尤其有传染性的原因。
Before you go, it is the weekend, I will send you off with a joke.
在离开之前，现在已经是周末了，我会给你们讲个笑话。
Below is the last known photo of Elvis... I would like it noted that I did not make a joke about there possibly being a bucket of chicken in the front seat.
上图是为埃维斯拍摄的最后一张照片。我想强调的是，我绝不是想开玩笑，但是前座上看来很可能有一群小孩子。
The old joke is made real: losing money on every sale, but making it up on volume.
那个古老的玩笑成了事实：每笔出售都亏本，但却会在销量上得到补偿。
真是个笑话，可它不是笑话。
'The joke around our house is, if it's not nailed down, they will sell it, ' Ms. Morgan says.
艾米说，她们全家津津乐道的玩笑是，如果家里哪样东西没有用钉子固定住，孩子们就可以把它卖掉。
In England, jokes are only played in the morning as it is considered bad luck to play a practical joke on someone after noon.
在英格兰，只有上午才能和人开玩笑，过了中午的恶作剧会被人认为是不吉利的。
As the old joke goes: when your neighbour loses his job, it is called an economic slowdown.
就像那个老笑话：当你的邻居失业了，那叫做经济低迷；当自己失业了，那就变成了经济衰退。
As the old joke goes: when your neighbour loses his job, it is called an economic slowdown.
就像那个老笑话：当你的邻居失业了，那叫做经济低迷；当自己失业了，那就变成了经济衰退。
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