He seemed to know the perfect time to tell a joke and when to remain silent.
VOA: special.2009.10.11
It reminds me of a joke about the statistician who drowned in a pool with an average height of 10 inches.
这让我想起一个统计学笑话,在一个平均水深为10英寸的游泳池里,谁会被淹死。
where a friend tells an off-colored, or inappropriate joke.
有一个朋友开了一个失礼的或是不合适的玩笑。
The victims cannot understand a joke, or cannot cook a meal, or perform simple work.
VOA: special.2009.09.15
And somebody as a joke once asked her, "How do you feel living in this village after all these years?"
有个人开玩笑问她,"你在我们村住这么多年觉得怎么样"
At one point,the husband, played by Clifton Webb, plays a joke on their son Bill.
VOA: special.2009.05.04
Most of what people--what made people laugh wasn't in any sense a joke or humorous.
大部份让人笑的原因,并不是玩笑或幽默。
The name was meant to be a joke, because all of the members hated collectivism.
VOA: special.2010.06.06
Unfortunately, it didn't work very well because people started bickering in his town and the New Harmony became kind of a joke-- it was not a harmonious community.
但不幸的是,这座村落发展得并不顺利,矛盾争执丛生,新和谐村成了笑谈-,因为已经无谓和谐了。
They were making a joke of my horror! This I thought,and this I think.
VOA: special.2009.05.16
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。
When he heard the news, he thought it was a joke.
VOA: special.2009.11.10
Yeah, I know, it's a very sophisticated joke-- it takes a while, but I'm glad you got it.
是的,我知道这是个很深奥的笑话-,需要时间,很高兴你们消化了。
Soon,Republican crowds were shouting a joke about it.
VOA: special.2010.04.29
So, by the way, I don't mean this as a joke, in some sense there's always a third candidate and that comes from the problem we had earlier, because not voting is always an option.
顺便说一句,我不认为某种程度上说,是有三个选举人是一个笑话,这是由于一些由来已久的问题造成的,因为不投票也是一种选择
He terms the rebel's announcement a joke as they are on the verge of being totally defeated.
VOA: standard.2009.04.26
Wimsatt has his little joke about drinking a pint of beer, taking a walk. So the New Criticism just isn't interested in those sorts of spontaneous overflow.
文萨特也开玩笑似的把这比喻成喝完一品脱啤酒,然后散散步,所以我说过了,新批评派对这东西不感兴趣。
The name is based on a funny joke many years ago on a British television show, "Monty Python's Flying Circus."
VOA: special.2010.08.01
It's like a bad joke,right?
像个很烂的玩笑,对吧?
That was a good joke on me. By jingo, I'll bet I did jump six and nine-tenths inches.
VOA: special.2009.05.04
And it'll be a really funny joke.
这会是个很有趣的玩笑。
" It was Shadowday (Saturday)! That's some joke,eh,Boss!" Chico also played the piano in a funny way.
VOA: special.2009.07.19
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。
The name sounds funny but the idea is no joke: a personal toilet called the Peepoo.
VOA: special.2010.03.15
So this was a bit of joke and surprise made them angry about this convergence. Then something even worse happened. People started to talk about using the internet to carry voice conversations for free.
所以这有种开玩笑和惊奇的意味,使他们对聚合很生气,而后更,糟糕的事发生了,人们开始谈论关于,使用互联网免费传输声音会话。
My brother is such a person. It is true C no joke.
VOA: special.2009.07.19
That it is intended as a kind of joke to, in many ways, discredit the idea of the just city or at least to indicate its extreme implausibility.
目的是要用作戏谑,在很多方面,使人怀疑正义之城的概念,或至少是要指明其极难令人置信。
He said, "Well, you have played a good joke on me.
VOA: special.2009.02.07
So there is this story about his Uncle Hoskins who takes his horse and cart with Richard in the back and drives it into the middle of the Mississippi River as a kind of practical joke on Richard.
有个故事是关于他的叔叔Hoskins的,他让理查坐在他的马车后,却连人带车掉到密西西比河里,这被作为了一个理查的真实笑话。
And his big finding is that you could separate people-- you could separate the question of laughter from the question of a joke or the question of humor.
他有一个重大的发现,你可以区分…,你可以区分什么是笑,什么是玩笑,什么是幽默。
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