Your best friend is telling you a joke, but you can't catch it!
你最好的朋友在给你讲笑话，你却听不懂！
Yet this question is by no means a joke, and the answer to it is by no means a guess; on the contrary, both are real scientific results.
然而，我们提出这个问题，可不是逗笑，它的答案也绝对不能去猜测，相反的，这个问题的提出和它的答案，都是真正的科学成果。
A bitter joke from the Soviet-era has it that Russia is the world's only country with an unpredictable past.
前苏联时期，曾有这样一个冷笑话——俄国是世界上唯一一个有着不确定的过去的国家。
The old joke that there is nothing so permanent as a temporary migrant has more than a grain of truth in it.
有一个老笑话说“没有什么比这些临时工人更永久的了”，现在这已经不止是一个笑话了。
Cryptomnesia is a memory bias that occurs when a person mistakenly believes that they have come up with an original thought, idea, song or joke, when it was actually generated by someone else.
“潜隐记忆”是一种记忆偏误，发生在人们错误地以为自己创造了一个原创的而实际上是别人的想法、观点、歌曲或笑话的时候。
It HAS become a joke for The Economist to say that a country is at a crossroads, yet for Turkey it happens to be spot on.
对《经济学人》而言，称一个国家处于十字路口，已成玩笑，然而此说法用在土耳其身上，却准确无误。
Below is the last known photo of Elvis... I would like it noted that I did not make a joke about there possibly being a bucket of chicken in the front seat.
上图是为埃维斯拍摄的最后一张照片。我想强调的是，我绝不是想开玩笑，但是前座上看来很可能有一群小孩子。
We are even put out of humour if our companion laughs louder or longer at a joke than we think it deserves; that is, than we feel that we ourselves could laugh at it.
对于一个笑话，如果我们感觉到同伴笑得声音比我们大，时间比我们长，而我们自己却做不到这样，结果就会出现坏心情。
It is not the first time this type of joke has cropped up on Google, a few years ago users reported being told to swim across the Atlantic if they asked for directions from New York to London.
据悉，这不是谷歌公司第一“开玩笑”了，前几年，当用户搜索怎样从纽约前往伦敦的时候，用户还被谷歌提示可以“游泳”横跨大西洋呢。
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。
In England, jokes are only played in the morning as it is considered bad luck to play a practical joke on someone after noon.
在英格兰，只有上午才能和人开玩笑，过了中午的恶作剧会被人认为是不吉利的。
If so, it may be safe to tell the joke quoting a third person who is part of the group.
如果是，向听众以第三人身份转述这个笑话或许会更合适。
One of the reasons the IT profession is changing is that users are getting much smarter (yes, you read that correctly - that's not a joke).
其中一个原因是IT行业正在发生变化-用户变得越来越聪明(是的你没听错-我没有开玩笑)。
Well, how pleased I am! and it is such a good joke, too, that you should have gone this morning, and never said a word about it till now.
你这个玩笑开得真太有意思，谁想到你竟会今天上午去拜访他，而且到现在一字不提。
People who support divorce legislation said that it is too conservative to forbid divorce, and it is even a joke in Europe.
支持离婚的人士认为，禁止离婚太过保守，简直是欧洲的笑话。
He's guilty of taking a perfectly fine joke and selling it as the second coming of Oscar Wilde: "Okay, this is a good one.
他对说出完美的笑话和把它像奥斯卡王尔德的作品样推出怀有愧疚感。
As a matter of fact, it seemed as a joke. Because I was new here so I did not know it is only some ornamental moulds and I mistook it as a group of reality.
说起来是个笑话，由于我初来乍到，远远望去不知那是艺术造型，误认为是一群真人了。
They will repeat Albert Einstein's remark, unaware that it was meant as a joke: "If the facts contradict the theory, then the facts are wrong, because the theory is true."
他们会重复阿尔伯特·爱因斯坦的评价，不知道那只是句玩笑话：“如果事实和理论冲突，那么事实必然是错的，因为理论是对的。”
There's an old joke that says "a man with one watch always knows what time it is; a man with two watches is never sure."
有一个流传已久的笑话：“佩戴一只手表的人常常知道时间，而佩戴两只手表后反而难以确定了”。
It is a standing joke between us that because of those six months there is no good restaurant in Edinburgh I haven't cried in.
在这6个月里，爱丁堡没有哪家好餐馆我没在里面哭过，这后来成为了我们之间的一个笑柄。
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。
America's us magazine is popular, but its title is something of a cruel joke on the reader: it is about famous beautiful people the reader will never meet.
还有美国的US(我们)杂志很流行，但杂志的主题却跟读者们开了一个残酷的玩笑：杂志是讲那些读者们永远也不可能见到的名人的，和普通读者没有任何关系。
That sounds like a joke, but it happens so often to varying degrees in large programming projects that there is a name for the phenomenon, Greenspun's Tenth rule.
这样做听上去好像开玩笑，但是在大型编程项目中，却不同程度地广泛存在。
I could make a joke and say that now it is you who are "crying Wolf."
开个玩笑，现在是您在喊“狼来了”。
That was a joke, but it does have a serious point. If the Chinese industry is going to make the transition, it will need an immense training programme.
这可能只是个笑话，但它的确说到了要点。如果中国的产业想要做到如此转型，则需要一个巨大的培训规划。
That was a joke, but it does have a serious point. If the Chinese industry is going to make the transition, it will need an immense training programme.
这可能只是个笑话，但它的确说到了要点。如果中国的产业想要做到如此转型，则需要一个巨大的培训规划。
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