1·"Be useful, and do me a service, "said he, in jest.
他开玩笑地说：“做个有用的人，并帮我个忙。”
2·Moroccan women worried half in jest whether, as in Saudi Arabia, they would no longer be allowed to drive.
摩洛哥妇女半开玩笑地担心，她们以后是否不能再开车上路，如同在沙乌地阿拉伯。
3·But if he speaks in jest, his words are idle among men who cannot receive them.
但如果他是在开玩笑，那么他的话语在那些无法理解的人们中就变得空虚了。
4·My wife and I often say, only half in jest, that our frequent travel separations are one key to our marriage’s continuing freshness after 30 years.
妻子和我常半开玩笑说，为了旅游频繁分离，这就是我们保持30年婚姻新鲜度的法宝，真是“小别胜新婚”（ 译者好羡慕，译者好烦自己的老婆 ）。
5·Do not say that even in jest!
不要说这种话，哪怕是开玩笑，也不要说这种话！
1·She preludes her remarks with a jest.
她开始讲话时先说一个笑话。
2·But at least in comparison to Infinite Jest, this book was more accessible, more identifiable.
但是，至少和《无穷尽的笑话》相比，这本书更容易接近，更可分辨。
3·Then, the financial jest with acerbic only zealous those past economist, what had become American at one's leisure today is newfangled.
于是，那些过去只有尖刻的经济学家热衷的金融笑话，今天已经成为了美国人茶余饭后的最新流行。
4·The netizen lends AD saying whole compositive jest.
网友整的借广告语组成的笑话。
5·Though Nestor swear the jest be laughable.
即使涅斯托发誓说那笑话很可笑。
1·It was a jest rather than a reproach.
这是个玩笑而非指责。
—— 《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
2·The man answered sharply, "Nought else, good sir—I tell thee 'twas but a jest."
那人厉声回答说：“没有别的事，好先生。我告诉你，这不过是个玩笑。”
3·While there is much said in jest here, there's also much said in truth.
尽管我在这里开了不少的玩笑，不过还是要讲一讲更多的事实真相。
4·As he picked it up he said, half in anger and half in jest, that he had met his master but that there is a master for everyone and everything - and now he proposed to lead me to mine.
他捡起剑，半是生气半是玩笑地说，他遇到了他的老师但对每个人和每一事物来说都有老师——而现在他提议把我带去见我的老师。
5·Part jest, part provocation, the posters still come up in conversation most days around the two clubs.
是玩笑还是挑衅，这幅海报在两家俱乐部间引发的口水战持续已经有些日子了。
1·I felt that I must be the jest of the room at the time, and Miss Crawford, it is plain, has heard the story.
我觉得，当时我一定成了满屋子人的笑柄——显然，克劳福德小姐听说过这件事。
1·The ritual was in jest, say people familiar with the matter, and he dropped it after executives said it made him seem silly and that competitors might cite it as evidence of monopolistic goals.
据知情人士说，这种“仪式”受到了嘲笑，公司高管说这让他看起来很傻，竞争对手可能会把这作为Facebook有垄断目标 的证据，于是扎克伯格不再这样做了。