Fitzpatrick and his colleagues at the International Institute of Strategic Studies reacted in the same way: "is this a joke?"
国际战略研究院的Fitzpatrick和他的同事反应一样，“这是个玩笑吗？”
TR: In The Design and Evolution of C++, you claim that Kierkegaard was an influence on your conception of the language. Is this a joke?
TR：在《C++语言的设计和演化》（TheDesign and Evolutionof C++）中，你说Kierkegaard对你设计语言概念有影响，是一个玩笑吗？
I can enjoy a joke as well as the next man , but this is going too far.
我和平常人一样喜欢开玩笑，可这太过分了。
I know this is a joke, and he knows I know, so even as he gets up to leave, I keep waiting for the wink.
我知道这是个笑话，他也知道我知道，所以即便他起身准备离开，我还在等他给我使眼色。
Something can be funny without being a joke, and this band will never reach the point where I don't see the humor in it.
有些东西即使不用玩笑的方式也会让人觉得开心，而这支乐队会永远带给我快乐。
This will significantly raise the humor level of the joke, and you'll get a much bigger laugh because the audience will perceive the entire joke as being spontaneous and unplanned.
这样笑话会显得更加有趣，你也会得到更多的笑声，因为观众会以为这整个笑话是你即兴编造的。
This is a time where anyone in the room can offer a joke about something related to the content of the meeting.
这时，参与的成员可以就刚才的会议内容说一些笑话。
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。
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。
Don't keep reminding everyone that "this is a serious problem" or "that was a tasteless joke."
不要提醒任何人说“这是个严肃的问题”或者“这是个冷笑话”.
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。
As a teenager, she was a member of the French national synchronised swimming team, and she likes to joke that this taught her not only teamwork and self-discipline, but also how to hold her breath.
少年时，拉加德是法国国家花样游泳队队员，她喜欢开玩笑地说，这段经历不但教给她团队合作与自律，而且教会了人如何才能憋住气。
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。
Shipping in 1985 to a ho-hum reception, this was such a joke that Microsoft itself put on a public roast when it finally rolled out the product.
1985年发布的这个产品只有很少人接受，当微软最终开始推广该产品的时候，它将其自身放在公众的考验之下，这简直是个笑话。
Though given the actor's almost unrecognisable appearance this week when he made a rare public outing, perhaps the joke that he can't even land the role of himself might not seem so improbable.
话说回来，雷布朗在本周罕见地公开露面时，几乎已经面目全非，或许他甚至没机会出演他自己这样的笑话看来未必是完全不可能的。
Author's Note: This whole essay, although sprinkled with truisms here and there, is a joke and should be taken like one.
作者附言：这整篇文章是都是在搞笑而且应该被当成搞笑，尽管它到处都夹杂着一些自明之理。
As he would not be setting off for another three weeks, he treated this as a very good joke.
由于他要等三个星期才会出发，所以把我的话当作是开玩笑。
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。
Watching this we might assume it isn't intended to be diagnostic of human psychology; rather it's just a way of making a joke at the expense of the main character.
看到这样的剧情，我们可能会觉得这无关乎人类心理，这只不过是调侃剧里的那个演员罢了。
A joke can fix it, it makes us laugh and notice we do this not on purpose.
一个玩笑能弥补这一切，它能让我们开怀大笑，注意到不是故意做的。
There's a joke among cyclists that goes something like this.
有一个关于自行车的笑话是这样的。
"Store manager of this" head bar "a feeling of helplessness, so he and his joke:" Well, I told you not open a Microsoft technology you!
商店经理对这个“杠头”无可奈何，于是便和他开玩笑：“那我告诉你一个微软还未公开的技术吧！”
"It started as a joke," said Dragica Surlovic, Ivan's grandmother. "I said, let's try this and things just stuck to him."
“最早是一个玩笑”，Ivan的祖母DragicaSurlovic说道，“我说，我们试试看，把东西贴在他身上。”
The Google April Fool's Day joke has become something of a tradition at this time of the year, even in China.
每年这个时候，谷歌(Google)的愚人节游戏已成为一项传统，即使在中国也是这样。
The Google April Fool's Day joke has become something of a tradition at this time of the year, even in China.
每年这个时候，谷歌(Google)的愚人节游戏已成为一项传统，即使在中国也是这样。
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