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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I was about to venture upon some misplaced joke on the subject, when a small scrap of parchment fell out of the leaves.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The carpenters had a joke to the effect that he was dead without being aware of it; and the frequenters of the pit supposed him to pass his whole life, night and day, and Sunday and all, in the orchestra.
-- With that, after clapping Mr Flintwinch on both shoulders several times, as if in a friendly and humorous way he were rallying him on a joke he had made, he threw up his arms, threw back his head, hooked his hands together behind it, and burst into a roar of laughter.
-- With this filial joke his daughter smartened him up, and gave him a loving hug, and stood at the door with her weak child in her arms, and her strong child tumbling down the steps, looking after her little old father as he toddled away with his arm under Little Dorrit's.
-- In delivering this charge to Tinkler, Mr Dorrit looked severely at him, and also kept a jealous eye upon him until he went out at the door, mistrusting that he might have something in his mind prejudicial to the family dignity; that he might have even got wind of some Collegiate joke before he came into the service, and might be derisively reviving its remembrance at the present moment.
-- Lord Decimus had a reminiscence about a pear-tree formerly growing in a garden near the back of his dame's house at Eton, upon which pear-tree the only joke of his life perennially bloomed.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The year is gone, we still unite To joke and laugh and read, And tread the path of literature That doth to glory lead.
-- Meg and Amy were contrary-minded, and Mr. Winkle rose to say with great elegance, 'We don't wish any boys, they only joke and bounce about.
-- You know I pro-posed the cupboard,' broke in Snodgrass, who was enjoying the joke amazingly.
-- But the crowning joke was Mr. Laurence and Aunt March, for when the state-ly old gentleman chass'ed solemnly up to the old lady, she just tucked her cane under arm, and hopped briskly away to join hands with the rest and dance about the bridal pair, while the young folks pervaded the garden like butterflies on a midsummer day.
-- 'I suppose he'll laugh and joke over it with Laurie, but I shan't see them, that's a comfort,' thought Amy, as Tudor bowed and departed.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- So, if any one man, in his own proper person, afford stuff for a good joke to anybody, let him not be backward, but let him cheerfully allow himself to spend and be spent in that way.
-- This ignorant, unconscious fearlessness of his made him a little waggish in the matter of whales; he followed these fish for the fun of it; and a three years' voyage round Cape Horn was only a jolly joke that lasted that length of time.
-- But now comes the greatest joke of the dream, Flask.
-- He would say the most terrific things to his crew, in a tone so strangely compounded of fun and fury, and the fury seemed so calculated merely as a spice to the fun, that no oarsman could hear such queer invocations without pulling for dear life, and yet pulling for the mere joke of the thing.
-- There are certain queer times and occasions in this strange mixed affair we call life when a man takes this whole universe for a vast practical joke, though the wit thereof he but dimly discerns, and more than suspects that the joke is at nobody's expense but his own.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mr. Giles, who thought this light treatment of the matter an unjust attempt at diminishing his glory, answered respectfully, that it was not for the like of him to judge about that; but he rather thought it was no joke to the opposite party.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- What a good joke it will be!I can hardly write for laughing.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She was convinced that Margaret had fixed on a person whose name she could not bear with composure to become a standing joke with Mrs. Jennings.
-- "I do not doubt it," replied he, rather astonished at her earnestness and warmth; for had he not imagined it to be a joke for the good of her acquaintance in general, founded only on a something or a nothing between Mr. Willoughby and herself, he would not have ventured to mention it.
-- Elinor could not suppose that Sir John would be more nice in proclaiming his suspicions of her regard for Edward, than he had been with respect to Marianne; indeed it was rather his favourite joke of the two, as being somewhat newer and more conjectural; and since Edward's visit, they had never dined together without his drinking to her best affections with so much significancy and so many nods and winks, as to excite general attention.
-- Mr. Edward Ferrars, the very young man I used to joke with you about (but however, as it turns out, I am monstrous glad there was never any thing in it), Mr. Edward Ferrars, it seems, has been engaged above this twelvemonth to my cousin Lucy! There's for you, my dear! And not a creature knowing a syllable of the matter, except Nancy! Could you have believed such a thing possible? There is no great wonder in their liking one another; but that matters should be brought so forward between them, and nobody suspect it! THAT is strange! I never happened to see them together, or I am sure I should have found it out directly.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Why, it was one of his own men!He had got up that joke all out of his own head, and never let on to nobody.
-- But I didn't see no joke about it, and I judged it would strain the duke and the king some to see any.
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