They are doing this to get people jealous or simply get a laugh.

假装度假有的是为了让别人嫉妒，也有人只是为了搞笑。

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The senator continued, trying to get a laugh out of the audience, ‘Isn’t that just a little excessive?’

试图博听众一笑的参议员继续问到，“这数目会不会太大了？”

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He said the gun crew thought it was all a joke and for the remainder of the war and at postwar reunions they would get a laugh from remembering the time they shot at a moving haystack.

他信上说，炮组当时认为此事完全是个笑话，足以作为战争纪念，可为战后聚会时，想起曾朝移动草垛开炮而开怀大笑。

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When monkeys get together to kill and eat somebody they make a kind of a laughing noise and chimpanzees laugh when they tickle each other.

猴子一起猎杀其他动物时,它们会发生出一种笑声,黑猩猩胳肢时也会笑。

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Cartoons often use stereotypes as a tool to make a point, or get a laugh.

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Surely grandma and grandpa will get a laugh out of that.

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All in all, a happy California family, and if you expect to get a laugh, or even a fleeting smile, out of their wide range of dysfunctions, think again.

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