a practical joke
基本解释
- 恶作剧
英汉例句
- Godel's incompleteness theorem seems like a practical joke.
哥德尔的不完全定理就象一个恶作剧. - "When Obama won, my colleagues played a practical joke on me -- they made me wear a suit, a tie, and took pictures of me posing as Obama," Anas told reporters on Saturday.
阿纳斯上周六接受记者采访时说:“奥巴马胜选那天,同事们搞了个恶作剧---他们让我穿上西装,打上领带,扮成奥巴马拍照。” - In England, jokes are only played in the morning as it is considered bad luck to play a practical joke on someone after noon。
在英格兰,只有上午才能和人开玩笑,过了中午的恶作剧会被人认为是不吉利的。
edu.sina.com.cn - So there is this story about his Uncle Hoskins who takes his horse and cart with Richard in the back and drives it into the middle of the Mississippi River as a kind of practical joke on Richard.
有个故事是关于他的叔叔Hoskins的,他让理查坐在他的马车后,却连人带车掉到密西西比河里,这被作为了一个理查的真实笑话。
耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选 - In some countries, bamboozled bargain-hunters, abandoned in an obscure field as part of a giant practical joke, would probably turn furiously on their tormentors.
ECONOMIST: An ingenious satire on supermarkets has Czechs chuckling - The real question facing industrialised countries is how to create a legal environment that counts cyberaggression not as a kind of practical joke, but a grave breach of the legal order, akin to terrorism, international organised crime, or aggression against another state.
ECONOMIST: Cyberwarfare - Second, please stop comparing Twitter to Zynga (which is a game publisher) and Groupon (which is an accounting practical joke).
FORBES: Yes, Twitter is Worth at Least $7 Billion