| 单词 | joke |
| 释义 | noun | verb jokejoke1 /dʒoʊk/ ●●● S1 W2 noun [countable] 1something FUNNY something that you say to make people laugh, especially a funny story: joke about I just heard a really funny joke about a salesman. It’s not nice to make jokes about other people. We stayed up telling jokes until 2 a.m. I don’t think he gets the joke (=understands why a joke is funny). I meant it as a joke, but she thought I was serious. She’s always cracking jokes (=saying something funny). Somehow he’d become the butt of all his classmates’ jokes (=the person a joke is about). → see also in-joke, practical joke, standing joke at standing1 (4)THESAURUSone-liner – a very short joke or funny remark: There are some good one-liners in the movie.wisecrack – a quick, funny, and often slightly unkind remark: He made some wisecrack about the size of my nose.pun – a joke using a word that has two very different meanings: A pun about school that I like is: “Math teachers have a lot of problems.”gag – a short joke told by a professional entertainer: The audience was totally silent after a few of his gags.punch line – the last few words of a joke or story that make it funny: I’ve heard that joke before, but I couldn’t remember the punch line.quip formal – an amusing remark: She is quick with a quip: “Do I look tall and thin?” asks the 5-foot tall comedian.jest – jest means the same as joke but is old-fashioned or used in writing: The senator met dozens of people, greeting them with a smile and an occasional jest.2TRICK something you do to make people laugh, especially something that is surprising or shocking, or that makes someone else look silly SYN prank: The lady thought we were playing a joke on her (=tricking her), but there really was someone following her. He set off the fire alarm as a practical joke.3something USELESS informal a situation or event that is so stupid, useless, or unreasonable that you do not consider it seriously: That meeting was such a joke.4take a joke to be able to laugh at a joke about yourself or a trick someone has played on you: Come on, Bob, it’s just a little water. Can’t you take a joke?5something is no joke used to emphasize that a situation is serious or that someone really means what he or she says: These bills are no joke.6make a joke (out) of something to treat something serious as if it was intended to be funny: It hurt my feelings, but I tried to make a joke out of it.7somebody’s idea of a joke spoken a situation that someone else thinks is funny but you do not: Is this your idea of a joke? Someone could have gotten hurt!8the joke’s on somebody used to say that someone who made you look stupid in the past now looks stupid himself or herself: They used to tease me, but in the end the joke was on them, because I got into a really good college.[Origin: 1600–1700 Latin jocus]COLLOCATIONSverbstell a joke (=repeat a funny story) He was always telling jokes and making people laugh.make a joke (also crack a joke informal) (=say something intended to be funny) He was cracking jokes and seemed relaxed and happy.get a joke (=understand a joke and find it funny) She never gets my jokes.laugh at somebody’s jokes A few people laughed at his jokes, but some people were offended.share a joke (with somebody) (=laugh at a joke with someone else) They seemed to be sharing a private joke.adjectivesa good/funny joke I heard a really good joke the other day.a bad/terrible joke (=not funny) Dad was known for his bad jokes.a cruel/sick joke (=very unkind) When someone told me he had cancer, at first I thought it was some kind of sick joke.an old joke It reminded me of the old joke about the chicken crossing the road.a dirty joke (=about sex) A bunch of boys were telling dirty jokes.an inside/private joke (=that only a few people who are involved in something will understand) After I’d worked there a while, I started to understand some of the inside jokes.a running/standing joke (=something funny that the same people often make jokes and laugh about) We had a running joke about how bad my cooking was.joke + nounsa joke book A boy was reading a joke book and giggling. noun | verb jokejoke2 ●●● S3 verb [intransitive] 1to say things that are intended to be funny SYN kid: Calm down, I was just joking!joke (with somebody) about something I can joke with my boss about anything.2you must be joking! spoken used to tell someone that what he or she is saying is so strange or stupid that you cannot believe it3all joking aside spoken used before you say something serious after you have been joking: All joking aside, you did a great job tonight.—jokingly adverbjoke around phrasal verb informal to have fun by telling jokes, doing silly things, etc.: Sometimes we joke around to get rid of tension. |
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