I want you to be extremely quiet, because this is no joke.

我希望你们绝对安静，因为这不是开玩笑。

youdao

Those turn out to be a canopied complex of grassy backyards, complete with porches, children, swings, a garden, and a water pump operated by-no joke-a man on a StairMaster.

那些抵抗总部竟是被草坪院子伪装起来的建筑群，配有门廊、儿童、秋千、花园和一台水泵，操作水泵者是——并非搞笑——是健身器上的某男子。

youdao

When you tell a joke on a brightly lit stage in front of a crowd of people who have paid a bunch of money to laugh, and no one laughs, it can be horrifying.

但是你站在灯光闪耀的舞台上，面对一群付了大把钞票来找乐的观众，你讲了一个笑话，却没人笑，这就会很恐怖。

youdao

Knowing this had to be a joke, since I had no male donkeys and, to my knowledge, no pregnant ones either, I laughed, fired off some appropriately obscene macho banter the staple of male conversation hereabouts and hung up.

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