开玩笑的

When it comes to gifts,"I give nicer stuff than I get," President Barack Obama said half-jokingly in an interview aired on ABC television Sunday.

美国总统贝拉克·奥巴马的一期访谈节目于上周日在ABC电视台播出。奥巴马在访谈中谈到圣诞礼物时半开玩笑地说：&我送给别人的礼物总比我收到的好。&

Even in our Muggle, mundane reality we'll say "hush, girl, before you speak him/her up!" in a half-teasing, half-serious way if the speaker is talking about a particularly unpleasant person.

甚至在我们麻瓜的世俗社会里，如果有人提起某个特别让人不舒服的人时，我们也会以一种半开玩笑半认真的方式说&闭上嘴，丫头，要不你就要说出他/她来了！&

There's a prize for the tidiest cabin, too, because " cleanliness is next to godlessness "[2], jokes Amanda Metskas, the director.

那些把屋子收拾的最干净的小朋友也会得到奖励，夏令营的负责人Amanda Metskas开玩笑似的解释道，这是因为&整洁近于信仰&。

He jokes that women wouldn't make good racing drivers because "they might take maternity leave", says people on unemployment benefits are "scroungers", and believes former British PM Tony Blair "probably told a lot of lies".

他开玩笑说，妇女不会取得良好的赛车驱动程序，因为&他们可能采取的产假&，说人的失业救济金是& scroungers &，并认为前英国首相布莱尔&大概说了很多谎言&。

The teacher--a 19-year-old teenager not much older than her students--seemed smitten by our shaggy-haired pretty boy.

力宏开玩笑地说&我一直看着地上的裂缝，好奇它们已经持续多久&很震惊地看到我们可爱的19岁的老师比学生大不了多少。

She jokes with her single friends that their future will be a Taiwanese version of the 'Golden Girls,' an

她和自己的单身朋友开玩笑说，她们的未来将是台湾版的《黄金女郎》，这是一部讲述四个女性退休后

"I liked them. I joked with them. I sympathised with them," writes MsSteavenson."But not one ever looked me straight in the eye and admittedresponsibility for the crimes of the government which they had served."

&我喜欢他们，和他们一起开玩笑，我同情他们，&史蒂文森写道，&但是没有一个人直视过我的眼睛，承认他们对自己曾经效忠的政府所犯下的罪行负有责任。&

"I liked them. I joked with them. I sympathised with them," writes Ms Steavenson. But not one ever looked me straight in the eye and admitted responsibility for the crimes of the government which they had served.

&我喜欢他们，和他们一起开玩笑，我同情他们，&史蒂文森写道，但是没有一个人直视过我的眼睛，承认他们对自己曾经效忠的政府所犯下的罪行负有责任。

Soon after its second atom-bomb test in mid-2009 it hurled insults at foreign critics, even mocking the looks of the American secretary of state, Hillary Clinton ("a pensioner going shopping").

在2009年五月朝鲜进行完第二次原子弹实验不久，便对国外的评论家大肆辱骂。甚至拿美国国务卿希拉里的长相开玩笑（说她像一位去商店购物的退休工）。

Sudhir Trehan, who runs Crompton Greaves, Avantha's electrical equipment-maker, jokes that when he joined as a trainee in 1972, the management would not drink tea unless it were served with white gloves from a silver pot.

Sudhir Trehan经营着阿凡塔集团旗下的电子设备制造商Crompton Greaves公司，他开玩笑地说，当他1972年以实习生的身份进入公司时，管理人员只喝那些带着白色手套从银制茶壶中倒出来的茶水。

With Death guitarist Schuldiner adopting vocal duties, the band made a major impact on the scene.

随着死亡的吉他手Schuldiner接受主唱的职务，乐队在现实中树立了重要的影响。

But he could still end up breakfasting on Swiss-government issue muesli because all six are accused of nicking around 45 million pounds they should have paid to FIFA.

不过他最后仍有可能沦为瑞士政府&议事餐桌&上的一道早餐，因为这所有六个人都被指控把本应支付给国际足联的大约4500万英镑骗了个精光。