He nailed my chair to the floor as a practical joke.

他搞恶作剧，把我的椅子钉到地板上了。

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Godel's incompleteness theorem seems like a practical joke.

哥德尔的不完全定理就象一个恶作剧。

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Perpetrated a practical joke with elfin delight; elvish tricks.

淘气的乱开玩笑；淘气的恶作剧。

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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。

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"This incident had the potential to turn into a practical joke leading to a fatality", Mr Rowan added.

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"It's a big, busy library and someone has played a practical joke - it's gone unnoticed for a while and once staff noticed they changed it, " he said.

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In some countries, bamboozled bargain-hunters, abandoned in an obscure field as part of a giant practical joke, would probably turn furiously on their tormentors.

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