jape

noun

1. 戏弄；恶作剧；玩笑
   a trick or joke that is played on sb

1. 玩笑；恶作剧；戏弄
   A jape is a silly trick that you play on someone which is quite funny and which does not really involve upsetting them.

1. 'This fellow has decided as a jape to climb inside the shark with a knife, put his hand through the gills of the shark and pretended to stab it between the eyes,' Mr Burns told his listeners today.
   伯恩斯先生对收听者说：这位老兄想开个玩笑，所以带着刀钻进鲨鱼肚子里，再把手从鱼鳃处伸出来，假装用刀刺戳鲨鱼两眼之间的部位。
2. Pretending to jumjp from a hotel roof was another jape that went wrong when the parachute didn't open.
   当降落伞没有打开，假装从旅馆楼顶上跳下来是又一个出了问题的玩笑。
3. Sitting at a crowded table with men who did not share a common language with you, listening to them talk and jape whilst understanding none of it, had quickly grown wearisome.
   坐在一个挤满了人的桌上听着和你不说一种语言的人们玩笑交谈却什么也听不懂，这很快就让人厌烦了。
4. Your experiments are aided by Jape, which can operate as both inquisitor and oracle.
   你的实验被帮助透过说笑话，作为能审问官和神谕所。
5. Jape helps, as far as arithmetic allows.
   取笑帮助，就算术而言允许。
6. That jape did not please Brown Ben.
   这个笑话没有取悦布朗·本。

noun

1. a humorous anecdote or remark intended to provoke laughter
   1. he told a very funny joke
   2. he knows a million gags
   3. thanks for the laugh
   4. he laughed unpleasantly at his own jest
   5. even a schoolboy's jape is supposed to have some ascertainable point

   Synonym:    jokegaglaughjest