He completely missed the joke.

这个笑话他一点也没听懂。

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He didn't see the joke.

他没听懂这则笑话。

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He intended it as a joke.

他只想开个玩笑。

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He seemed to know the perfect time to tell a joke and when to remain silent.

VOA: special.2009.10.11

I know you don't remember that far back, but in about the second lecture I made a joke of Professor Guttag which, you know, you didn't laugh at, he didn't laugh at, that's okay.

我知道你们可能不记得了，但是在大约是第二节课,我对Guttag开了个玩笑，你们懂得，你们没笑，他也没笑，这没什么。

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

VOA: special.2009.02.07

Whenever he made a joke, he seemed to expand, pushing the house and his job aside.

NEWYORKER: Mr. Bones

He actually spent as many words apologizing to "many women" for telling the joke as he did on the joke itself (more if you construe his warning of "politically incorrect jokes" as part of the apology).

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Mohamed Kamal, who also performs stand-up with SUCQ, notes that given Qatar's political climate, there are limits to what he can joke about.

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