People confuse the subject of the joke with the target of the joke, and they're very rarely the same.

  • -- Ricky Gervais 里基·热尔维斯

人们混淆了笑话的主题和笑话的目标,而且他们很少是一样的。

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I think some of the best reporters are the ones who can really illustrate the differences between societies, at the same time trying to connect the fact that there are a lot of shared values in addition to those differences.

我认为,一些最好的记者能够真实地阐述社会之间的差异,同时试图将除了这些差异之外还有许多共同的价值观这一事实联系起来。

Her godmother simply touched her with her wand, and, at the same moment, her clothes were turned into cloth of gold and silver, all decked with jewels.

教母只是用魔杖轻轻碰了碰她,与此同时,她的衣服就变成了金银布料,上面缀满了珠宝。

I think that the joke and the ghost story both have a similar set up in that you kind of set something up and pay it off with a laugh or a scare.

我认为这个笑话和鬼故事都有一个相似的背景,你设置了一些东西,然后用大笑或惊吓来偿还。

A book should have an intellectual shape and a heft that comes with dealing with a primary subject.

一本书应该有一个智力的形状和重量来处理一个主要的主题。

You can read Kant by yourself, if you wanted to; but you must share a joke with someone else.

如果你愿意,你可以自己读康德;但是你必须和别人分享一个笑话。

There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage.

没有什么话题比婚姻更危险的胡言乱语了。