In other words, you might think of it as a kind of artificial, processed, bland, easily consumable version of fate. I really mean that. One of the funny things about that debt to Finnegans Wake is, Finnegans Wake as a book of puns is unreadable.

也就是说，你可能会把它当做一种人为的，处理过的，乏味的，容易消耗的命运，我正是此意,关于《芬尼根守灵夜》中一个有趣的事是,它作为一本充满双关语的书是不值得一读的。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Or even just funny things, like if somebody put like "Hammertime" on a stop sign.

或者，有趣的是，好像有人把“哈姆时间”（美国真人秀）画在停车标志牌上。

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One of the funny things is that the emergence of this family farm gives rise to the polis' character as a land in which there is a citizenry, which is to say free men who rule themselves.

有趣的是,家庭农场的繁荣,促成了城邦的兴起,公民制开始在这片土地上萌芽,即自由人享有自由的权利

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

It's the comedy of everyday life. It's just people saying funny things.

情景喜剧。就是一些人说一些搞笑的事。

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