I suspect Ronnie tripped me so that I wouldn't be able to play tomorrow. He did it not as a joke but out of malice.

我怀疑罗尼是为了让我明天无法比赛而绊倒我的，他这么做并非开玩笑，而是出于恶意。

youdao

No, I am not kidding, and as far as I know, this is not a joke, they are literally calling these notebooks Jisus.

是的，我没有开玩笑，据我所知，这绝对不是在开玩笑，他们一字一句的告诉我这种笔记本电脑叫做 Jisus。

youdao

"No. Not at all," he said, sounding as if he were telling a subtle joke.

“不，不是这样的，”他说话听上去像在讲一个小笑话。

youdao

The real question facing industrialised countries is how to create a legal environment that counts cyberaggression not as a kind of practical joke, but a grave breach of the legal order, akin to terrorism, international organised crime, or aggression against another state.

ECONOMIST: Cyberwarfare

As with so much that Mr Banks says, it is not clear whether this was meant as a joke.

ECONOMIST: Sport: Hearts of oak | The

It left me suspended in a bad joke in which a living man inexplicably becomes two pints of dust and everyone acts as if this were not a joke at all but, rather, the most reasonable thing in the world.

NEWYORKER: Dead Man Laughing