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- a thing that someone says to cause amusement or laughter, especially a story with a funny punchline笑话：
she was in a mood to tell jokes.
她想讲些笑话。
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- a trick played on someone for fun玩笑。
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- in sing. informal a person or thing that is ridiculously inadequate〈非正式〉荒唐可笑的人（或事）：
public transport is a joke.
公共交通。
no obj.
1- make jokes; talk humorously or flippantly开玩笑; 幽默地谈论; 轻佻（或不严肃）地谈论：
she could laugh and joke with her colleagues
她有时会和同事们嘻嘻哈哈地说笑话。
with direct speech 'It's OK, we're not related', she joked.“没问题, 我们反正没有血缘关系”, 她开玩笑地说。
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- with obj. archaic poke fun at〈古〉取笑, 嘲笑, 嘲弄：
he was pretending to joke his daughter.
他假装嘲弄他的女儿。
短语
be no joke
- informal be a serious matter or difficult undertaking〈非正式〉严肃的事; 不轻松的事; 困难的事：
trying to shop with three children in tow is no joke.
要带着三个孩子去买东西可不是件轻松的事。
get（或be） beyond a joke
- informal become (or be) something that is serious or worrying〈非正式〉（变成）严肃的事, 令人担心的事：
this rain's getting beyond a joke.
这场雨越来越让人担心了。
make a joke of
- laugh or be humorous about (something that is not funny in itself)对（并不好笑的事）以笑（或幽默地）对待, 一笑置之。
派生词
jokey
（亦作joky）adjectivejokily
adverbjokiness
nounjokingly
adverb词源
late 17th cent. (originally slang)： perhaps from Latin jocus 'jest, wordplay'.