"Sure, sleeping on a bed is really hard work," I said jokingly.

我开玩笑地说：“当然了，在病床上睡着确实并非易事嘛。”

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Jokingly, I said to the group, "What do you think if we go a week without using our laptops or smartphones?"

我开玩笑地对大家说：“如果我们一周不用笔记本电脑或智能手机，你们会怎么想？”

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This college counselor I met, she said it sort of jokingly but she said bad dad, when I told her that we hadn't taken an SAT prep class or done a college tour yet.

我遇到的那位升学辅导员，虽然是开玩笑的口吻，但当我告诉她我们还没参加SAT辅导班，也没参观过学校时她说我是个坏父亲。

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When I went back at tea and I was 60-odd, I jokingly said, 'I told you guys to get a hundred, it will just have to be me now'.

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"I might have mentioned it jokingly to Andrew Flintoff, but I said it with an amount of truth, " Law told BBC Sport.

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Although she has said somewhat jokingly, although I think she may partly mean it that she sometimes does wish she was running the Met.

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