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

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Now Microsoft is sort of a funny place, we've got these big businesses but in the software business big businesses need to be constantly recreated.

现今的微软是非常有意思的地方，我们运行着庞大的生意，但是在软件交易上,大宗交易更像是消遣。

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And it'll be a really funny joke.

这会是个很有趣的玩笑。

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Severe, unsentimental, dry, so much so as to be maybe even a little bit funny.

严肃，不带感情色彩，晦涩难懂,如此这般以至于又多了一份滑稽有趣。

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