It's impolite to joke about others' dreams, because everyone treats dreams very seriously.

拿别人的梦想开玩笑是一件非常不礼貌的事情，因为每个人对待梦想都很认真。

It is not a subject to joke upon.

这个问题可不是开玩笑的。

Marjorie Baer used to joke about her retirement plans.

玛乔丽·贝尔曾经拿她的退休计划开玩笑。

Anyway, once children get to talk, they seem to be finding ways to joke.

不管怎么样，一旦孩子们开始说话，他们似乎是在想尽办法开玩笑。

Locals used to joke that the only life that could survive in the skies was jumbo jets.

本地区的居民经常笑侃，天空中唯一能存活下来的生命就是巨大的喷气式飞机。

In fact, he used to joke that I was half divine...you know, because of the letters in my name.

她的表情变得害羞起来，“其实，他过去常开玩笑说我有一半符合黄金分割……那是因为我名字里的字母。”

My father used to joke that he had the perfect basketball team sitting around the dinner table.

我父亲经常开玩笑说他拥有一支完美的篮球队围坐在家里的餐桌旁。

On waking a couple of hours later, he is able to joke about the experience with his team-mates.

他在两个小时后醒来，他还能拿这经历来和队友们开玩笑。

Silverton says, prompting the staff to joke that there are more people asking to buy the company than its cars.

西弗敦先生曾经和自己的员工看开玩笑说，想买公司的人远比想买我们汽车的人多。

Weddings - make me speechless... I wanted to write a short "no comment", but it was too strange for me not to joke about.

结婚——让我无语……我想简短地写“不作评论”，但是不开开玩笑对我来说太奇怪了。

Shannon Schlothauer: "We love to joke that the road from North Dakota to South Dakota is the straightest road in the world."

Shannon Schlothauer： “我们喜欢开玩笑说，从南达科他州到北达科他州的路是世界上最笔直的路。”

When Brazilians contemplate the beauty of their country or the ability of their soccer team, they like to joke, "God is Brazilian."

当巴西人想到祖国的美好或国家足球队的水平时，他们喜欢开玩笑，“上帝是巴西人。”

Su Chun used to joke about this thought with Haiping but she turned out to be very serious and said "that's never gonna happen."

这话，苏淳曾经跟海萍开过玩笑。海萍严肃地说：“绝对不会。”

One day, we thought, all problems would be solved and there wouldn't be any more jokes because there wouldn't be anything left to joke about.

我们当时认为：总有一天，所有的问题都会得到解决，然后就不会再有笑话，因为到那时就没什么好开玩笑的事情了。

Well-known blogger Jeremiah Owyang likes to joke that companies and organizations fall in love with social media tools, but forget to build the house.

知名博客作者Jeremiah Owyang喜欢开玩笑说公司和组织深深热爱着社会媒体工具，但它们却忘了建房子。

Tony Blair joined us on a satellite hookup, giving me a chance to joke that his infant sons life expectancy had just gone up by about twenty-five years.

托尼·布莱尔通过卫星信号加入到我们的聚会，这恰恰提供了一个开玩笑的机会，我说道，他刚出生的儿子的预期寿命又增加了约25年。

THE London School of Economics was once so popular among young American scholars that British students used to joke that LSE stood for “Let’s See Europe”.

伦敦经济学院曾经在美国青年学者中是如此的受欢迎，以至于英国学生曾笑称其为欧洲的象征。

'I look back at the video of Isabel's party and take in every detail: the way she spoke, how she laughed and the way we used to joke she'd be such a handful when she grew up,' he says.

他说，“我回顾着伊莎贝尔的生日录像，注意当时的每一个细节：她说话的样子，她的笑声，以及我们跟她开玩笑时的情景，而在她长大的这几年中，这些欢笑都变得如此的难能可贵。”

As a teenager, she was a member of the French national synchronised swimming team, and she likes to joke that this taught her not only teamwork and self-discipline, but also how to hold her breath.

少年时，拉加德是法国国家花样游泳队队员，她喜欢开玩笑地说，这段经历不但教给她团队合作与自律，而且教会了人如何才能憋住气。

Sitra Walker was an employee at a clothing store in Columbus, Ohio. She had only been working there for two weeks, but already she felt that she knew the manager well enough to joke around with him.

一家服装店的雇员Sitra Walker只在那工作了两个星期，然而她觉得自己和经理已经熟到可以开玩笑的程度了。

She told a joke to lighten the atmosphere.

她讲了个笑话以缓和气氛。

The wolf thought he was in joke, and came one night to get a dainty morsel.

狼以为他是在开玩笑，一天晚上来取美味的食物。

He told a joke to the king.

他给国王讲了一个笑话。

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。

His smartness of the morning had seemed to Tom a good joke before, and very ingenious.

汤姆之前觉得他早上耍的小聪明是个很好的笑话，而且很有独创性。

The OED defines LOL as an interjection "used chiefly in electronic communications… to draw attention to a joke or humorous statement, or to express amusement".

《牛津英语词典》将 LOL 定义为一个叹词，“主要用于电子通信……以引起对笑话和幽默语句的注意，或表示可笑”。