Just a little joke, never mind!

只是一个小玩笑，别介意哦！

youdao

It was just a little joke.

跟你开个小玩笑嘛。

youdao

Scare you? Just a little joke, never mind!

吓着你了吗？只是一个小玩笑，别介意哦！

youdao

Wimsatt has his little joke about drinking a pint of beer, taking a walk. So the New Criticism just isn't interested in those sorts of spontaneous overflow.

文萨特也开玩笑似的把这比喻成喝完一品脱啤酒，然后散散步，所以我说过了,新批评派对这东西不感兴趣。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

It wasn't just self-congratulatory laughter at a high-brow joke. (OK, maybe a little.) I also had a laugh at myself: I've tried for so long to understand Philip Glass, and all it took was a one-act parody?

WSJ: Parsing a Playwright's Universal Language