| 词组 | joke |
| 释义 | joke /dʒəʊk $ dʒoʊk/ noun something that you say or do to make people laugh, especially a funny story or trickadjectivesa good/funny joke I heard a really good joke the other day.a bad/terrible/feeble/lame joke (=not funny) Dad was known for his bad jokes.a cruel/sick joke (=very unkind) When I heard 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 corny joke (=old and silly) He always laughed at his boss’s corny jokes.a dirty joke (=about sex) A bunch of boys were telling dirty jokes.a practical joke (=that involves tricking someone) He set off the fire alarm as a practical joke.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 joke (=in which people always laugh when the same situation happens, or when someone says something) It’s a running joke in our house that my husband can never find his keys.verbstell a joke (=repeat a funny story) He was always telling jokes and making people laugh. Don’t say say a joke. Say tell a joke.make a joke also crack a joke (=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 sb’s jokes A few people laughed at his jokes, but some didn’t find them funny.play a joke on sb (=trick someone to make people laugh) John’s always playing jokes on his brothers.share a joke (with sb) (=laugh at a joke with someone else) They seemed to be sharing a private joke.swap jokes (=tell each other jokes) They spent the evening swapping jokes and stories.prepositionsa joke about sb/sth She made a joke about his unusual name.as/for a joke He pretended to be choking, as a joke.phrasesa joke falls flat (=people don’t find a joke funny) His practical jokes usually fell flat.sb can take a joke (=someone can laugh at jokes about themselves and not get upset) Luckily he can take a joke.mean sth as a joke I meant it as a joke, but she thought I was being serious.be the butt of a joke (=be the person a joke is made about, so that people laugh at you) Somehow he’d become the butt of all his classmates’ jokes.make jokes at sb’s expense (=make jokes about them in a way that makes them seem silly) He had the unpleasant habit of making jokes at his wife’s expense.THESAURUS: joke pun also play on words a joke made by mixing up two different meanings of the same word, or two words with the same sound: The joke is based on a pun on the words ‘bear’ and ‘bare’. | The title of the book is a witty play on words. | Shakespeare used a lot of puns for comic effect. funny story a short story that someone tells to make people laugh: He was one of those guys who are good at telling funny stories at dinner parties. gag a short joke, especially one told by a professional entertainer: He’s a great comedian, with plenty of good gags. one-liner a very short joke or funny remark: There are some memorable one-liners in the film. |
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