Britain's trains rank alongside its weather as a standing national joke, but that hasn't stopped people flocking to them over the past decade.

英国的铁路与天气一起并列属于标准的国家笑料，不过这并不影响过去的十年里人们拥入火车。

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That it is intended as a kind of joke to, in many ways, discredit the idea of the just city or at least to indicate its extreme implausibility.

目的是要用作戏谑，在很多方面，使人怀疑正义之城的概念，或至少是要指明其极难令人置信。

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America's us magazine is popular, but its title is something of a cruel joke on the reader: it is about famous beautiful people the reader will never meet.

还有美国的US(我们)杂志很流行，但杂志的主题却跟读者们开了一个残酷的玩笑：杂志是讲那些读者们永远也不可能见到的名人的，和普通读者没有任何关系。

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But while the magazine's mission may be earnest, its name is "a joke, " as Editor in Chief Vladimir Yakovlev puts it.

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Smil calls my assessment a cruel joke, presumably for its failure to empathize with unemployed and underemployed Americans, by considering value before job creation.

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When it comes to the American auto industry, Mitt Romney believes its investment in a fuel-efficient future is a joke.

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