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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Gentle dullness ever loves a joke.
温柔的无聊总是喜欢开玩笑。
I think when you dissect a joke too much, you have ruined whatever there is in comedy.
我认为，当你过分剖析一个笑话时，你就毁掉了喜剧中的一切。
Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law?
幽默总是建立在一点点事实的基础上。你听过关于岳父的笑话吗?
If you work at comedy too laboriously, you can kill what's funny in the joke.
如果你太过努力地演喜剧，你就能把笑话里有趣的东西都抹杀了。
Generally speaking, we get the joke. We know that the free market is nonsense. We know that the whole point is to game the system, to beat the market or at least find someone who will pay you a lot of money, 'cause they're convinced that there is a free lunch.
一般来说，我们懂这个笑话的意思。我们知道自由市场毫无意义。我们知道，关键是要利用这个系统，打败市场，或者至少找到一个愿意付给你很多钱的人，因为他们相信有免费的午餐。