We plan to play a trick on him on Fool's Day, but Sam gave the game away.

我们打算在愚人节那天捉弄他一番，但山姆露馅了。

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Let's play a trick on the old lady.

让我们来戏弄那个老妇人。

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There are thoughts which play us the same trick; they nestle away in a corner of our brain; that is the end of them; they are lost; it is impossible to lay the memory on them.

我们的思想有时也这样在和我们开玩笑，它们躲在我们脑子的角落里，从此完了，它们已无影无踪，无法把它们回忆起来。

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The term is a play on words, of course, and an example of the old marketing trick of avoiding the baggage of one phrase by inventing another.

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