jesting

1. N-COUNT 笑话；打趣；玩笑
   A jest is something that you say that is intended to be amusing.
   1. It was a jest rather than a reproach...
      这与其说是责备，还不如说是句玩笑呢。
   2. The men talk as cheerfully as ever; jests are bandied about freely.
      男人们像往常一样高兴地聊着，彼此间随意开着玩笑。
2. VERB 说笑话；开玩笑；打趣
   If you jest, you tell jokes or say amusing things.
   1. He enjoyed drinking and jesting with his cronies...
      他喜欢和老朋友喝喝酒、开开玩笑。
   2. A newspaper half jested: Had alcohol not already killed him, this would surely drive him to drink.
      一份报纸半开玩笑地写道：要不是喝酒已经要了他的命，这肯定会让他想要喝上一杯。

1. He enjoyed drinking and jesting with his cronies
   他喜欢和老朋友喝喝酒、开开玩笑。
2. He is fond of jesting.
   他好开玩笑。
3. There is no jesting in war.
   军中无戏言。
4. He is awfully fond of jesting.
   他极爱开玩笑。
5. "I wonder," said Leigh Mallory in a heavily jesting tone.
   “我感到怀疑，”利·马洛里用浓厚的戏谑语调说。
6. Stop jesting with me because I am busy!
   别跟我开玩笑了，我很忙！
7. We never play with fire, and they never play with it, either. It is ill jesting with edged tools.
   我们从来不玩火，他们从来也不玩火。
8. HW wasn't jesting when he said he was going to get married next month.
   他说下个月结婚时不是开玩笑。
9. Throughout the interview she kept her temper perfectly, laughing and jesting.
   在整个会见过程中，她从容不迫，谈笑自如。
10. She was not entirely at ease with the jesting Birdsong.
    她和爱开玩笑的伯德桑在一起并不感到很自在。
11. What is truth; said jesting pilate;
    善戏谑的彼拉多曾说：真理是什么呢？
12. He did it rarely but now he could not resist jesting with the Don.
    他很少这样但是现在他无法抗拒和老爷子打趣的冲动。
13. It's no matter for jesting.
    没有取笑的理由。
14. He added, in a jesting way, that perhaps George Washington might gain almost as great a name in history as George the third.
    他还开玩笑说乔治-华盛顿也许会名标青史，跟乔治三世不相上下。
15. Though generally they have trouble and are tormented and restless and worried in mind or in body, they hide their cares behind their humour and jesting and are considered very good friends to know.
    虽然通常他们的心理和身体上有许多困难、苦恼、焦躁不安，但他们会以幽默和玩笑将其隐藏，只有非常好的朋友才知道背后真相。
16. His smiles, his forgiveness, his sometimes pleasant jesting were all a horrible offence.
    他的微笑、他的饶恕、他那有时有趣的俏皮话，完全是一种可怕的进攻。
17. The cloud of spectators followed, jesting, in a paroxysm of delight.
    一大群观众，乐到发狂，嘴里胡言乱语，都跟着走。
18. A Regularization Method for Semi-linearly Backward Parabolic Problems: Uniqueness and Stability Estimates said the baroness, half jesting, half in earnest.
    一类半线性抛物型方程反问题的正则化方法：唯一性和稳定性估计男爵夫人半开玩笑半认真地反问。
19. Times when he relaxed his mind by jesting and broad anecdotes.
    有时候他开开玩笑，讲一些无所顾忌的趣闻轶事，以此放松头脑。
20. So remember then; this is no jesting matter.
    你要记住：这不是玩笑。
21. This jesting evolved over time into a tradition of playing pranks on1 April.
    随着时间的推移，就形成了在四月一日恶作剧的传统。
22. A related item is the jesting recipe for "Shadow Soup", which is supposedly made from only the shadow of a fowl that is hung over the cooking pot.
    另一个类似可笑的菜谱是做影子汤，那是假设仅用一只吊在炊具上的家禽的影子做成的。
23. But I can never forgive you for jesting with and deceiving my sister.
    但是我永远不能原谅你嘲笑和欺骗我妹妹。
24. Even in the inner part of traditional historical novels, conservative and radical, jesting and serious, also is becoming uproarious.
    即使在传统历史小说内部，保守与激进、戏说与正说之间也日渐杂语喧哗。

adj

1. characterized by jokes and good humor

   Synonym:    jocosejocularjoking