in joke

基本解釋

It was an in joke.
這是小圈子里的一個(gè)玩笑。
I'd thank you to adhere to the truth and not slander me, even in joke!
我得謝謝你照實(shí)話說(shuō)，而不誹謗我，即使是在說(shuō)笑話！
Leader : He told me in joke that he would like to challenge for singing and dancing the next year.
隊(duì)長(zhǎng)：他開玩笑地告訴我明年想挑戰(zhàn)唱歌和表演。
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But it was not a joke. NASA found seven normal, everyday supermen in a group of five hundred candidates.
It reminds me of a joke about the statistician who drowned in a pool with an average height of 10 inches.
這讓我想起一個(gè)統(tǒng)計(jì)學(xué)笑話,在一個(gè)平均水深為10英寸的游泳池里，誰(shuí)會(huì)被淹死。
哈佛公開課 - 幸福課課程節(jié)選
And somebody as a joke once asked her, "How do you feel living in this village after all these years?"
有個(gè)人開玩笑問她,"你在我們村住這么多年覺得怎么樣"
耶魯公開課 - 1871年后的法國(guó)課程節(jié)選

It left me suspended in a bad joke in which a living man inexplicably becomes two pints of dust and everyone acts as if this were not a joke at all but, rather, the most reasonable thing in the world.
NEWYORKER: Dead Man Laughing