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《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Just this, madame; the Patagonians have short legs, and a large bust; or by way of a joke we might say that these natives are six feet high when they are sitting, and only five when they are standing."
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I can take a joke with the best, Mr. Holmes, but they've got a bit over the mark this time.'
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I don't know why Nicolai Ardalionovitch has brought up the joke now.
-- She had quite recov-ered her temper; in fact, from certain signs, it was fair to conclude that she was delighted to see this joke going so far; and a careful observer might have remarked that her satis-faction dated from the moment when the fact of the prince's confusion became apparent to all.
-- He had, how-ever, always made more or less of a joke about it, so no one had taken him seriously.
-- 'I don't know in the least; I wasn't present when the joke was made.
-- But though Evgenie Pavlovitch had put his questions to the prince with no other purpose but to enjoy the joke of his simple-minded seriousness, yet now, at his answer, he was surprised into some seriousness himself, and looked grave-ly at Muishkin as though he had not expected that sort of answer at all.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was another roar of laughter, for that is an old joke among elephant-catchers, and it means just never.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They thought you were having a joke with them."
-- The absurdity that clung to everything connected with Dirk Stroeve gave it a curious note, like an unresolved discord, but made it somehow more modern, more human; like a rough joke thrown into a serious scene, it heightened the poignancy which all beauty has.
-- What a cruel practical joke old Nature played when she flung so many contradictory elements together, and left the man face to face with the perplexing callousness of the universe.
-- 'I received your picture,' he said, 'and I confess I thought it was a joke that you had played on me.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They worked with confidence, even gaily, Pencroft always having some joke to crack, sometimes carpenter, sometimes rope-maker, sometimes mason, while he communicated his good humor to all the members of their little world.
-- Nothing was heard but that, and Jup without ever being disconcerted, replied to every one, watched for everything, and he shook his head in a knowing way when Pencroft, referring to his joke of the first day, said to him, "Decidedly, Jup, your wages must be doubled."
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Speaking seriously though, Kit,' said his mother, taking up the theme afresh, after a time, 'for of course I was only in joke just now, it's very good and thoughtful, and like you, to do this, and never let anybody know it, though some day I hope she may come to know it, for I'm sure she would be very grateful to you and feel it very much.
-- He was quite serious, but they all laughed heartily at his saying so, especially Mr Chuckster, who roared outright and appeared to relish the joke amazingly.
-- He had not sat in the chapel more than a quarter of an hour, and with his eyes piously fixed upon the ceiling was chuckling inwardly over the joke of his being there at all, when Kit himself appeared.
-- During this melancholy pause, the turnkey read his newspaper with a waggish look (he had evidently got among the facetious paragraphs) until, happening to take his eyes off for an instant, as if to get by dint of contemplation at the very marrow of some joke of a deeper sort than the rest, it appeared to occur to him, for the first time, that somebody was crying.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was pleasant to Nekhludoff to recall all that; it was pleasant to recall how he came near quarreling with the army officer who attempted to make a bad joke of it; how another comrade sided with him, which drew them more closely together; how merry and successful was the hunt, and how happy he felt that night returning to the railroad station.
在刘易斯·卡罗尔的《爱丽丝漫游镜中世界》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And an extremely small voice, close to her ear, said, 'You might make a joke on that something about "horse" and "hoarse," you know.'
-- 'You might make a joke on that,' said the little voice close to her ear: 'something about "you would if you could," you know.'
-- 'Don't tease so,' said Alice, looking about in vain to see where the voice came from; 'if you're so anxious to have a joke made, why don't you make one yourself?'
-- 'Yes, to be sure,' said the King: 'and the best of the joke is, that it's my crown all the while!Let's run and see them.'
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I'll play a joke on him.
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