" It was Shadowday (Saturday)! That's some joke,eh,Boss!" Chico also played the piano in a funny way.

VOA: special.2009.07.19

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。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

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"

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

"And the joke with me was I walked in the room and said,' OK,you're now Lionel Richie.

VOA: standard.2009.06.24

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。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

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。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

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。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

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

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

So, even if we were to agree with the pessimists that it would be better never to have been born at all, as the old joke goes, show me one person in a thousand who's so lucky, right?

所以，即使我们要同意悲观主义者的观点,根本不出生更好，就像老笑话讲的那样，给我千里挑一找到一个走运的人？

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Wow, John, I got a laugh for a political joke, I'm in big trouble. That better?

噢，John，我讲了个政治笑话大家都笑了，我有麻烦了，这样好些么？

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

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。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

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。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选