jocularity

基本解釋

I tried to inject a little jocularity into my voice: “Well, why not?
我盡量在話語中插入詼諧的語調(diào)：“哦，為什么不呢?
The unaccountable depression that possessed Philpot deprived him of all his usual jocularity and filled him with melancholy thoughts.
一種難以形容的沮喪心情使菲爾波特失去了平時(shí)那種詼諧樂觀的性格，他心中愁緒萬端。
He loved the poetry of Walt Whitman and the prose of Zane Grey , the stillness of a game of chess and the jocularity of a game of cards , the sea and the desert .
他既喜愛沃爾特·惠特曼的詩歌，也欣賞贊恩·格雷的散文；既喜歡玩國際象棋時(shí)的安靜，也享受玩紙牌時(shí)的熱鬧；既向往大海，對(duì)沙漠也甘之如飴。

He is abject. He is a shining example of moral leprosy, a mixture of ferocity and jocularity that betrays supreme misery, perhaps, but is not conducive to attractiveness.
他很卑鄙，他是道德敗壞的典型，他是兇殘和,滑稽的結(jié)合體，背叛了至高的痛苦，但也并不吸引人。
耶魯公開課 - 1945年后的美國小說課程節(jié)選

Yet he chronicles his travels with a wearying feather-light jocularity, prizing one-liners over lucid analysis.
ECONOMIST: The secret of happiness