Now the media likes to play joke on Taylor's boyfriend, they say when Taylor's next song comes out, it is about him.

如今媒体喜欢开泰勒男朋友的玩笑，他们说当泰勒的下一首歌出来的时候，就是关于他的。

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To play joke on him, someone led a donkey into the Palace, what's more, on whose head hanged a note, it read: Zhuge-jin.

有人想捉弄他，把一头驴弄进宫中，还在驴头上挂了个纸条，上书：诸葛瑾。

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The headmaster at my school decided to play an April Fools' joke on the students when I was in high school.

在我上高中的时候，我们学校的校长决定给学生们开一个愚人节玩笑。

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Or maybe Jacob is utterly levelheaded, and just bored enough to play an elaborate joke on me.

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The joke our genes and our years play on us is to leave us, as parents, forever with this weird column of figures scribbled on our souls, ones that make no sense, no matter how long you squint at them or how hard you try to make them work.

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