Time was, you could go to a comedy show and hear a string of jokes worth scribbling down to recycle and retell to your friends.

想当年，人们去看喜剧时能够听到一连串的笑话，还能记录下来，在朋友当中传播、分享。

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You can just spend more time with your friends, learning to be a fun, easygoing guy, or get rid of your bad habit of interrupting people or making corny jokes, or a million other things.

你可能只需要多花点时间和朋友们在一起，学着变得幽默点、自在点，改掉一些诸如喜欢打断别人的谈话或者说粗俗笑话的毛病。

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A relaxed Murray said he would not be making any jokes about England this time but was keen to stress that he has no antipathy towards them.

穆雷镇定地说这一次，他不会再开关于英格兰的玩笑了，但他还是指出自己对他们没有反感。

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There's a time and a place for jokes and a time and place for spankings.

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"No one ever wants to talk to me, but they do it all the time, " jokes Reynolds.

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