a practical joke

基本解釋

Godel's incompleteness theorem seems like a practical joke.
哥德爾的不完全定理就象一個(gè)惡作劇.
"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.
阿納斯上周六接受記者采訪時(shí)說：“奧巴馬勝選那天，同事們搞了個(gè)惡作劇---他們讓我穿上西裝，打上領(lǐng)帶，扮成奧巴馬拍照。”
In England, jokes are only played in the morning as it is considered bad luck to play a practical joke on someone after noon。
在英格蘭，只有上午才能和人開玩笑，過了中午的惡作劇會(huì)被人認(rèn)為是不吉利的。
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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.
有個(gè)故事是關(guān)于他的叔叔Hoskins的,他讓理查坐在他的馬車后,卻連人帶車掉到密西西比河里,這被作為了一個(gè)理查的真實(shí)笑話。
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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.
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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.
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Second, please stop comparing Twitter to Zynga (which is a game publisher) and Groupon (which is an accounting practical joke).
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