jests

and he remembered, when he was last at Messina, that Beatrice used to choose him to make her merry jests upon.

而且他记得，上次他在梅辛纳的时候，碧翠丝常常选他来做取笑的对象。

The practice of it, in spite of popular jests, tends to make good citizens and good men.

其践履，尽管这已成为一个流行的笑话，总是在于造就良善公民与好人。

Shakespeare said, "He jests at scars that never felt a wound. "

莎士比亚说：“人总是取笑那些从不感到受伤害的创痕。”

Eyes and priests bear no jests.

人的眼睛和牧师一样，都不会讲笑话。

Mary always jests about her feelings towards him.

玛丽总是拿她对他的感情来开玩笑。

All jests aside, we're in big trouble. A _ is a witty, usually cleverly phrased remark.

玩笑归玩笑，我们遇到了大麻烦。指一句风趣的，通常措辞巧妙的语句。

"Any decent court would hang them anyway, " he jests.

他还开玩笑地说：“无论怎样，只要是正派的法庭，都会把他们绳之以法的。”

He jests at scars, that never felt a wound.

没有受过伤的人，总是嘲笑别人的伤疤。

Later on, all the neighbors heard about the wealthy man's idea and the story quickly became a material for jokes and jests .

后来邻近的人们都听说财主要建造空中楼阁，大家把它当成笑料传开了。

What does it matter, he jests , if we watch football, drink beer and wolf down ice cream instead of reading Joyce?

看足球、喝啤酒、享用冰淇淋，不看乔伊斯，有什么大不了的吗？

He jests me on my folly.

他嘲笑我的愚蠢。

I always made jokes and jests when I was young.

我年轻的时候总是开玩笑、说笑话。

Then more talk arose among them, and one or two of them made jests at him and brought him to laugh with them;

随后他们继续在一起聊天，其中一两个人还和他开起了玩笑，把他逗得跟他们一起笑了起来。