A sick joke?

还是一个玩笑？

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At 34, the officer had spent 13 years on the force, and he had gone through incidents like this a dozen times—a crank call, a sick joke from a drunk.

对于一个34岁并有着13年工作经验的警官来说，他经历的这类事情足有一打之多一胡乱的喊叫或是醉鬼猥亵的玩笑。

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Though my throat was sick then, I kept on teaching him because it was very funny.I often made a joke on him and we often laughed without a stop.

那段时间虽然我的嗓子不行，但是教向阳是一件很好玩的事情，他老是被我取笑，笑得我们停也停不下来。

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The idea that vandalism might be on the wane - that the authorities have somehow got it under control - will sound like a sick joke to those that have to live with it every day.

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In a statement, Te'o said he had been the victim of a "sick joke", but he did not say whether he had ever met Kekua in person, nor did he correct media reports that he had met her.

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