joke是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 笑话， 玩笑v. 说笑话， 开玩笑，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Joe Miller never made such a joke as sending it to Bob's will be.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The fellow pointed to his joke with immense signifi-cance, as is often the way with his tribe.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- So then they thought they would fly up to the sky, and have a joke there.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Stepan Arkadyevitch saw Matvey wanted to make a joke and attract attention to himself.
-- Stepan Arkadyevitch remembered his joke about this punctual, bald watchmaker, "that the German was wound up for a whole lifetime himself, to wind up watches," and he smiled.
-- He made a joke or two, and talked just as much as was consistent with due decorum, and began work.
-- He was the familiar friend of everyone with whom he took a glass of champagne, and he took a glass of champagne with everyone, and when in consequence he met any of his disreputable chums, as he used in joke to call many of his friends, in the presence of his subordinates, he well knew how, with his characteristic tact, to diminish the disagreeable impression made on them.
-- pursued the Frenchwoman, laughing, and she reminded him of his joke about the three young ladies whom he had compared to the three bears in the English nursery tale.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "A true Englishman doesn't joke when he is talking about so serious a thing as a wager," replied Phileas Fogg, solemnly.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- How did the joke about the dog and his fleas go tonight?
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Oh, with what happiness I shall press you to my heart!Dounia is all excitement at the joyful thought of see-ing you, she said one day in joke that she would be ready to marry Pyotr Petrovitch for that alone.
-- 'No, I see you don't believe me, you think I am playing a harmless joke on you,' Porfiry began again, getting more and more lively, chuckling at every instant and again pac-ing round the room.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But turning quickly uponhim, and seeing a laugh in his eyes, I answered, much relieved'Ah,Steerforth!It's well for you to joke about the poor!You mayskirmish with Miss Dartle, or try to hide your sympathies in jestfrom me, but I know better.
-- I entreated Agnes not toregard this as a thoughtless passion which could ever yield to anyother, or had the least resemblance to the boyish fancies that weused to joke about.
-- 'Yes,' returned Traddles, with perfect innocence, 'it's a joke for us.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- she cried in evident embarrassment, 'it all meant nothing; a mere joke among ourselves.'
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "I daresay I am a joke about the parish," said Boldwood, as if the subject came irresistibly to his tongue, and with a miserable lightness meant to express his indifference.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The King began to laugh, and made some joke in Latin about flour.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Silks for the ladies and tea and sugar were hard to get; but that was something to joke about.
-- Well, that's a good joke on them.
-- Why did he joke at this time of all times?
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And to this hour I have not the faintest notion what he meant, or what joke he thought I had made.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then the fa-ther started, trembling with fear and horror, and saw what it was that he had bound himself to do; but as no gold was come, he made himself easy by thinking that it was only a joke that the dwarf was playing him, and that, at any rate, when the money came, he should see the bearer, and would not take it in.
-- And thus she had some joke to crack upon every one: but she laughed more than all at a good king who was there.
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