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。
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”。
There used to be an old joke in America that people should take a bath once a week, whether they need one or not.
以前在美国有一个老笑话，说不管人们需不需要，他们至少每个礼拜该洗一次澡。
It began as a joke, putting home-made salad dressing in an old wine bottle, tying it with a ribbon and giving it to friends.
这始于一个玩笑，他将自家制作的沙拉酱装在一个旧酒瓶里再系上一个蝴蝶结送给自己的朋友们。
Sterr said Tuesday that he wrote the joke letter in response to caustic comments made by "an individual" and a teacher accidentally sent it home.
Sterr在周二表示，他所写的玩笑似的信函是来回复一个来自“个人”的具有挖苦性的评论，其后被一个老师偶然寄回家。
A few weeks back, at an event to celebrate the role of women in finance, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner tried to get things started with a joke.
几周前，在一场庆祝妇女在财经界发挥作用的活动中，美国财长蒂莫西·盖特纳(Timothy Geithner)试图用笑话作为开场白。
TR: In The Design and Evolution of C++, you claim that Kierkegaard was an influence on your conception of the language. Is this a joke?
TR：在《C++语言的设计和演化》（TheDesign and Evolutionof C++）中，你说Kierkegaard对你设计语言概念有影响，是一个玩笑吗？
My attitude toward death was captured by the punch line in an old joke about Sister Jones, the most devout woman in her church.
我对死亡的态度，正好与关于琼斯修女的一个老笑话中的一个妙语不谋而合。
Cooper would joke to friends and colleagues that the calls from that phone would have to be short in duration: Who had the strength to hold it to an ear for very long?
库伯经常跟朋友或同事开玩笑说打电话的时间要缩短，谁有力气把手机放耳朵旁很久？
There's an old joke that Web developers spend about 20% of their time writing code and the other 80% getting it to work the same in all browsers.
有一个关于Web开发人员的笑谈，Web开发人员用他们20%的时间写代码，然后用剩下的80%的时间让这些代码能够在所有浏览器中运转起来并获得相同的效果。
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。
A classic joke goes like this: a nurse rushes into an exam room and says, "doctor, doctor, there's an invisible man in the waiting room."
有个经典笑话：护士冲进诊疗室大叫：“医生！”医生！
The next movie in the series came out, and you read that the actors are trying not to laugh at an inside joke in the last scene.
电影续集要播出了，你发现在最后一幕中，男演员似乎难掩对一个圈内笑话的笑容。
It is a sheer joke to search for sunshine outdoors in an afternoon of a fine day, however, this is what I encounter today. Interesting enough.
在一个晴天下午的户外寻找阳光简直是个笑话，而这却是我昨天碰到的饶有趣味的一幕。
So as a practical joke, they purchased a half dozen rabbits from an agricultural research center in Haidian District, along with a dozen heads of lettuce.
为了搞恶作剧，他们从海淀区的一家农业研究所购买了六只兔子和十几颗圆白菜。
But fate might also arrived to open a joke, God only cloud in the blink of an eye blink, the outcome of all, it has not completely changed.
也许还抵不过命运开的一个玩笑，上帝只在云端眨了一眨眼，所有的结局，就都已经完全改变。
It is all right to tell a joke or an anecdote if it is in good taste and will not embarrass the speaker.
只要不出格而且不使发言人感到难堪，开个玩笑或者讲个趣闻都不要紧。
Olson recalled a candidate for a communications executive position who rubbed an employer in the wrong way with an off-color joke.
奥尔森提到，以前有一个应聘者申请通讯类的一个管理岗位，结果却用一个粗俗的笑话把老板惹毛了。
Its so contrived it feels like an in-joke for cover-based shooter players.
这一过程是如此机械，感觉似乎是对掩护类射击游戏的嘲笑。
New ideas can ride in on the back of a joke, old ideas can be given an added edge.
新想法可以用笑话的力量轻松进入人们的心，老想法也能借幽默增加锋芒。
Brother, when everyone thought it was just an April Fool's day joke, your souls in paradise, smile and look at the world is to make fun of you.
哥哥，当所有人都以为这只是个愚人节的玩笑时，你的灵魂已在天堂那端，微笑着看世人被你作弄的样子。
Put ten Chinese in a room, goes an old joke, and you would be hard pressed to get them to speak .
十个中国人一起只是一个笑话，你很难让他们开口。
The old joke that the way to render an Italian speechless is to tie his hands together has a kernel of truth in it.
有一个老笑话说，如果要让一个意大利人闭嘴，那就把他的手绑起来，这个笑话有其道理所在。
She was pregnant as an April Fool joke. She went in his office and left the door open so everyone could hear her.
这个女孩走进男友的办公室，故意把门开着，以便大家都能听到。
'It was an ironic joke, perhaps the translation wasn't done in the ironic sense'.
这是个具有讽刺意味的笑话，或许翻译没有传达出那种讽刺意味。
A Frenchman, for instance, might find it hard to laugh at a Russian joke. In the same way, a Russian might fail to see anything amusing in a joke witch would make an Englishman laugh to tears.
同样的道理，一则可以令英国人笑出泪来的笑话，俄国人听了可能觉得没有什么可笑之处。
A Frenchman, for instance, might find it hard to laugh at a Russian joke. In the same way, a Russian might fail to see anything amusing in a joke witch would make an Englishman laugh to tears.
同样的道理，一则可以令英国人笑出泪来的笑话，俄国人听了可能觉得没有什么可笑之处。
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