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单词 jocularly
释义
jocularly
adverb
formal
uk
/ˈdʒɒk.jə.lə.li/us
/ˈdʒɑː.kjə.lɚ.li/
in ahappyway andlikingto makejokes:
爱开玩笑地
Theremarksweredeliveredjocularly to thewholeroom.这番话被戏谑地传给了整个房间的人。
"Who would havethoughtit?" she said jocularly.“谁会想到呢？”她开玩笑地说道。
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(Definition ofjocularlyfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofjocularly

jocularly
I should like to say one last word about something which has beenjocularlyreferred to but which is, in fact, serious.
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I said thatjocularly, but the documentation is beyond human endurance to follow.
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The attraction of this country is gradually disappearing, and the narrator talked—perhapsjocularly—about our returning to the dark ages.
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I take his remark as he meant it—jocularly.
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It is a proverb which the people quotejocularlyagainst themselves, because they can make a joke against themselves even in their present conditions.
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Sometimes spoken words, however apparently defamatory, may be spokenjocularlyor in certain circumstances and create no damage at all.
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Somebody oncejocularlyremarked that politicians go on and on and on.
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We have here, therefore, a serious problem about which one can talkjocularly.
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In the old days competing football team supporters would criticise one another andjocularlyrefer to one another.
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The island word "overner" is usually usedjocularlyto refer to someone who comes from the mainland.
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They tell us that we are dealingjocularlywith this problem, and that we are trying to get in a number of bad arguments because we cannot find good ones.
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It might be said, perhapsjocularly, that it does the police a great deal of good and there is no reason to suppose that it harms the children.
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If that example is not enough, there is the case of the actress whojocularlyappealed for sixpences with which to buy a new mink coat.
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We should not underestimate, or deal flippantly orjocularlywith, a clause that is doing what this clause will inevitably do to the education system throughout the land.
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I said "we may have"jocularly.
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