A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
笑话
Joke
Paris and Nicky Hilton? Those girls will show up to the opening of a phone book. It's like a big joke.
帕里斯和尼基希尔顿?那些女孩会出现在电话簿的开头。就像一个大笑话。
When you tell an Iowan a joke, you can see a kind of race going on between his brain and his expression.
当你给爱荷华人讲笑话时,你可以看到他的大脑和他的表情之间有一种竞赛。
Poetry is like making a joke. If you get one word wrong at the end of a joke, you've lost the whole thing.
诗歌就像一个笑话。如果你在一个笑话的结尾把一个单词拼错了,你就失去了整件事。
The girl-next-door image is a sort of joke; for years, I couldn't get any roles other than as somebody dark.
邻家女孩的形象是一种玩笑;多年来,我除了扮演一个黑暗的角色外,再也找不到其他的角色。
I have jokes I've told before and will tell again, but my favorite part of the night is talking to the crowd.
我以前讲过很多笑话,以后还会讲,但是晚上我最喜欢的部分是和观众聊天。
Whenever I walk off the golf course, I thank God that I'm able to tell a joke. I thank God I'm good at something.
每当我走出高尔夫球场,我都感谢上帝,我能讲笑话。感谢上帝,我在某方面很在行。
I do things, and other people laugh at them. I rarely know what the joke is supposed to be or why they're laughing.
我做事,别人嘲笑我。我很少知道这个笑话应该是什么,或者他们为什么笑。
I'm infamous, a joke. It doesn't make me feel good, because I'm a genuine person, but I don't let it get to me, because I am who I am.
我臭名昭著,是个笑话。这不会让我感觉很好,因为我是一个真诚的人,但我不会让它影响到我,因为我就是我。
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。
My joke, which isn't really a joke, is that there will be one of two tours: the tour for the album that does well, or the tour for the album that stiffs.
我的笑话,其实并不是笑话,有两场巡演,一场是表现出色的专辑巡演,另一场是表现出色的专辑巡演。
Comedy is just to me, maybe it's a natural knack, if I can see where the joke is in the writing and I can see where the setup is and I can tell this is the way to make it.
喜剧对我来说只是一种技巧,也许这是一种自然的技巧,如果我能在写作中看到笑话在哪里,我能看到设置在哪里,我能知道这就是制作喜剧的方法。
I'm very wary of doing political stuff for a lot of reasons. One of the big ones is that the shelf-life for them is not very long, and the joke becomes old news very quickly.
出于很多原因,我对政治事务非常谨慎。其中一个重要的问题是,它们的保质期不是很长,而且这个笑话很快就成了老新闻。
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I sometimes joke, Paula, even paranoid people have enemies.
宝拉,我有时开玩笑,即使是偏执的人也有敌人。
The joke or the pratfall is easy for me to do.
对我来说,这个笑话或失态很容易做到。
I am always joking and always clowning, giving and helping.
我总是开玩笑,总是开玩笑,给予和帮助。
I love doing six versions of any joke, so if they'll give me six takes, I'd love to do it.
我喜欢做任何笑话的六个版本,所以如果他们给我六次机会,我很乐意去做。
I hope life isn't a big joke, because i don't get it.
我希望生活不是一个大笑话,因为我不明白。
After a while, a joke, if you say it too much, just becomes contrived, or fake-sounding.
过了一段时间,一个笑话,如果你说得太多,就会变得做作,或者听起来很假。