It's a very funny poem, and you've got triplet rhymes there to make sure you know that Frost is joking, and it feels like light verse.

这是首有趣的诗，你会得到三连音的押韵,让你确实觉得弗罗斯特在开玩笑，这就像光的韵律一样。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

And one of the just striking things is that Socrates is in a very happy, indeed jovial, mood, joking with his friends.

但是,奇怪的是,苏格拉底当时非常开心,甚至兴奋地和他的朋友们开玩笑

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

And I thought that's scary and I-- and, all joking aside, that's scary but that's misattributed arousal.

我想，天哪，真恐怖-,不开玩笑，我听了真觉得够惊悚的,但是这也是性觉醒错觉。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

This is what he says about them about three quarters of the way down the page: During my lunch hour, which I spent on a bench in a nearby park, the waitresses would come and sit beside me talking at random, laughing, joking, smoking cigarettes.

理查在文中,是这样说的：,“我坐在附近公园的长椅上吃午餐，那些女服务生,会坐过来和我谈笑风生。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Is he joking or is he serious?

他是认真的还是开玩笑“

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

Now, he's joking.

他在开玩笑。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选