Then,when the music is over, the Marx Brothers immediately start being funny again.

VOA: special.2009.07.19

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。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

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

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

You know, it's funny whata young man recollects, 'cause I don 'tremember being born.

VOA: standard.other