They thought they would fly up to the sky, and have a joke there.

他们想飞上天空，在那里开个玩笑。

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He stopped to have a joke with us.

他停下来和我们一起说笑话。

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I stopped to have a joke with him about our work.

我停下来和他说了一个我们工作上的笑话。

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He said, "Well, you have played a good joke on me.

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So, even if we were to agree with the pessimists that it would be better never to have been born at all, as the old joke goes, show me one person in a thousand who's so lucky, right?

所以，即使我们要同意悲观主义者的观点,根本不出生更好，就像老笑话讲的那样，给我千里挑一找到一个走运的人？

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Southerners have a joke: Mercedes station wagons and wearing mink in Texas are God's way of telling you that you have too much money.

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Some of them you can have a laugh and a joke with them.

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It may have been a joke, but the underlying message was of irritation.

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