Humor is often more than a laughing matter.

幽默常常不只是一笑了之的事。

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This is not a laughing matter but a cause of big concern.

这是我们需要严肃对待的，应该引起我们的关注。

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I cannot understand why something so personal and intimate between two people is considered a laughing matter.

我不能理解为什么两个人之间如此亲密的私人关系会成为笑话的一部分。

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And that's not a laughing matter, no matter how alien that makes me feel in my own home country.

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For the Tartan Army who did not join the 500 footsoldiers in leaving the stadium after Wales' second, it was far from a laughing matter.

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The raids were the result of a year-and-a-half-long joint investigation dubbed "No Laughing Matter" by the Food and Drug Administration's Office of Criminal Investigations and the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department.

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