They played a joke on him.
他们开了他一个玩笑。
He told us a joke today.
他今天给我们讲了一个笑话。
They all laughed at my joke.
听了我的笑话他们都大笑起来。
I told my wife a joke, she didn't even laugh. I don't know whether it's because it was a terrible joke or she's still mad at me from last week.
我给妻子讲了个笑话，她都没笑。我不知道是因为笑话太烂，还是她还在为上周的事生气。
Why did the tomato turn red? Because it saw the salad dressing!"
为什么番茄变红了？因为它看见了沙拉酱！（这是一个关于食物的幽默）
Why don't scientists trust atoms? Because they make up everything.
为什么科学家不信任原子？因为它们构成了一切。（这个是关于科学幽默的）
I'm reading a book on anti-gravity. It's impossible to put down.
我在读一本关于反重力的书，真是爱不释手。（这是文字游戏，"put down"既是放下书的意思，也有嘲笑书内容的意思）
I'm on a whiskey diet. I've lost three days already.
我正在进行威士忌减肥法，我已经减掉三天了。（这是关于戒酒的幽默）
I'm not arguing, I'm just explaining why I'm right.
我不是在争论，我只是在解释为什么我是对的。（这句话有点自嘲的味道）
Why did the scarecrow win an award? Because he was outstanding in his field.
为什么稻草人获奖了？因为他在这个领域非常出色。（双关语，既指他在农田里很出色，又指他作为“scarecrow”在农事上的优秀表现）
I'm bilingual, I speak fluent sarcasm.
我双语流利，我说的是讽刺语。（这是对讽刺语言的自我调侃）
I'm writing a self-help book on stress management. It's called 'Stress Without Effort'."
我正在写一本关于压力管理的自助书籍，书名叫《无需努力的压力》。（玩弄文字，暗示轻松应对压力）
Why don't seagulls fly by the bay? Because then they'd be bagels!"
为什么海鸥不到海湾飞？因为那样就成了贝果（bagel）了！（这是关于食物的俏皮话）
Elon Musk clarified on Wednesday that his earlier tweet expressing intent to buy Manchester United is a long-running joke on Twitter and he is not buying any sports teams.
埃隆·马斯克周三澄清称，他早些时候在推特上表示有意收购曼联是一个长期存在的笑话，他不会购买任何运动队。
Zheng Yexin, general manager of the branding department at the sports brand 361 Degrees, said Chinese people, especially the younger generation, have changed their views about domestic products and are now starting to appreciate them rather than regarding them as a joke.
运动品牌361度品牌部总经理郑业新表示，中国人，尤其是年轻一代，已经改变了对国货的看法，现在开始欣赏国货，而不是把它们当作笑话。
It confirmed the company's founder Wang Ning, 33, a billionaire now with a 57 percent stake, was not joking when he said he would like to make Pop Mart the Chinese equivalent of Disney or Netflix.
这证实了该公司33岁的创始人王宁（Wang Ning）——目前持有57%的股份，已是一位亿万富翁——在说他想把Pop Mart打造成中国的迪士尼或Netflix时并非在开玩笑。
Gao Chen, a 30-year-old Chinese woman, has been leading a team in India for Vmate, an app owned by a subsidiary of internet giant Alibaba, to discover talented people and shoot short videos of them doing seemingly ordinary things-dancing, singing, joking or making handicrafts-in ways that grab attention.
Another user, James Bowen, said: "What a joke, as soon as the timer hit zero, it was out of stock - just clickbait to get people to visit the website.
She made a public appearance on Tuesday, saying she thought it could be an April Fools' Day joke when she first heard about the news, and then she was so excited that her hands couldn't stop shaking after confirming the win.
In May, Li Haoshi, a comedian whose stage name is House, made an inappropriate joke about the PLA's motto during a talk show held in Beijing by the Shanghai Xiaosheng Culture Media Co.
Camping was all the rage across China during the just-concluded National Day holiday, with some joking that "half of the friends on WeChat were camping.
Its videos, colorful graphics, live streamed promotions remind me of the joke that in the beginning, God created the heaven and the Earth, and after that, everything else was made in China.
PwC's Strategy & Partner Bill Peng said Changan's well-timed plan has set an example and others would follow suit soon, even though when Geely said two years ago that 90 percent of its cars would be new energy cars by 2020, everyone thought the manufacturer was joking.