ADJECTIVE | VERB + JOKE | JOKE + VERB | PREPOSITION | PHRASESADJECTIVE➤amusing, funny, good, hilarious有趣的/好玩的/很逗的/令人捧腹的笑話◇She didn't seem to find my jokes amusing.她似乎不覺得我的笑話好笑。➤old過時的笑話◇That's an old joke-I've heard it lots of times.那是個過時的笑話 - 我已經聽過好多遍了。➤bad, corny, dumb, lame, silly, stupid, unfunny (especially BrE) 糟糕的笑話;老套的笑話;愚蠢的笑話;蹩腳的笑話;不好玩的笑話▸➤cruel, sick傷人的/令人毛骨悚然的笑話➤racist, sexist種族歧視的/性別歧視的笑話▸➤crude, dirty, off-colour/off-color (especially NAmE) 粗俗的/下流的/黃色笑話➤inside, private內部/私密笑話◇They kept telling inside jokes about people I didn't know.他們不停地講一些圈內的笑話,涉及到的人我都不認識。➤running老使人發笑的事◇The show features a running joke about a nosy dog.節目講的是一條好管閒事的狗所出的各種洋相。➤practical惡作劇◇His brothers were always playing practical jokes.他那幾個兄弟老是搞惡作劇。➤huge天大的笑話◇It's all just a huge joke to you, isn't it?對你來說這一切都不過是一個天大的玩笑,是不是?VERB + JOKE➤crack, make, tell說笑話;開玩笑;講笑話◇He's excellent at telling jokes.他特別會講笑話。➤play開玩笑◇He's always playing jokes on people.他老是拿人開玩笑。➤exchange, have, share相互開玩笑;說笑話◇She likes to share a joke with her employees.她喜歡和員工們講笑話。➤hear聽笑話▸➤appreciate, enjoy, get, laugh at, like, understand領會笑話;喜歡笑話;聽懂笑話◇We all fell about laughing, but he didn't get the joke.我們都笑彎了腰,但他卻沒明白這笑話有什麼好笑之處。◇She doesn't like jokes about her height.她不喜歡別人拿她的身高開玩笑。➤remember記得笑話➤spoil破壞笑話◇He told us the ending, completely spoiling the joke.他把結局告訴了我們,使得這個笑話一點兒都不好笑。➤miss未領會笑話◇Am I missing the joke here?我是不是沒聽懂笑點?➤take經得起玩笑◇The trouble is she can't take a joke.問題是她開不起玩笑。➤treat sth as視⋯為玩笑◇He treated his exams as a huge joke.他把自己的考試當成一個大笑話。JOKE + VERB➤fall flat笑話沒有達到效果◇The audience wasn't very responsive and the jokes fell flat.聽眾沒什麼反應,那些笑話未能讓人發笑。➤be on sb笑話戲弄某人◇I thought I'd play a trick on them, but in the end the joke was on me.我本想捉弄一下他們,但最終鬧笑話的人卻是我。PREPOSITION➤as a joke當作笑話◇It was only said as a joke.那只是當笑話說的。➤joke about關於⋯的笑話◇Have you heard the joke about the elephant and the mouse?你聽過大象和老鼠的笑話嗎?PHRASES➤make a joke of sth拿⋯開玩笑◇We tried to make a joke of our situation, but it wasn't really funny.我們試圖拿我們的處境開玩笑,但這實在不是什麼好笑的事。joke
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ADVERB | PREPOSITION | PHRASESADVERB➤half半開玩笑◇She was only half joking about being president one day.她只是半開玩笑地說有一天會當總統。➤around隨意說笑◇Everyone just joked around and enjoyed themselves.大家都只是隨意說笑,開心一下。➤lamely, weakly蹩腳地/怯怯地開玩笑➤good-naturedly, playfully善意地開玩笑;鬧着玩兒地打趣PREPOSITION➤about開⋯的玩笑◇We joked about the amount of equipment we had to carry.我們拿必須攜帶的設備數量開了個玩笑。➤with和⋯開玩笑◇She's always joking with her friends.她總是和朋友們開玩笑。PHRASES➤be only joking只是說着玩◇Don't worry, I'm only joking!別擔心,我只是在開玩笑!➤joking apart, joking aside (used to show you are now being serious after you have said sth funny)說正經的➤laugh and joke說笑◇They laughed and joked as they walked along.他們一邊走一邊說笑。➤you must be joking, you've got to be joking (especially NAmE) 你一定是在開玩笑吧◇No way am I doing that. You must be joking!我絕不可能那樣做。你肯定是在開玩笑吧!