It can be serious, but it's usually jocular.

可以是很严肃说这，但是通常是开玩笑的口吻。

The definitions tend to stress different and jocular, funny, humorous, inventive, that kind of thing.

俚语的定义重在强调不同的，打趣的，有意思的，幽默的，独出心裁的意义。

At the beginning, they just made jocular remarks about drinking and women.

起初，他们只是开玩笑谈论喝酒女人。

Well, I accept your jocular insult as a token of bonding.

我接受你玩笑式的羞辱 并当作友谊的象征。

(jocular) I knew they would cope with the situation.

（开玩笑）我知道他们会应付这种情况。

They shook their heads, and some one made a jocular remark which I did not catch, but which raised a general laugh.

那些人都摇头，有人说了一句俏，得人们哈哈大笑，我没有听清。

Though the obsession seems unique to Goshkevich, Goncharov finds it jocular enough to report it accordingly.

虽然这种痴迷似乎是戈什凯维奇独有的，但冈察洛夫觉得它足够有趣，因此相应报告了它。

We voted heavily against " cohort" as a synonym for " colleague, " except when the tone was jocular.

我们强烈反对将“cohort” 作为“colleague” 的同义词，除非语气是轻松幽默的。

He keeps journalists awake with jocular sarcasm against the neoliberals and upper-class fees who were the main beneficiaries of decades of free market.

他用逗趣的讽刺针对新自由主义层阶级费用来让记们保持清醒，这些人是几十年来自由市场的主要受益。

She was glad to do as he asked: her knees were a little shaky, and unable to continue in that jocular tone she kept silent.

她很高兴按照他的要求去做：她的膝盖有点发抖，无法继续用那种诙谐的语气继续保持沉默。

She was incapable of elaborate artifice, and she resorted to no jocular device—to no affectation of the belief that she had been maligned—to learn what she desired.

她没有精巧的技巧，也没有使用任何诙谐的手段——也没有假装自己受到了诽谤——来了解她想要的东西。

At stake are bragging rights for graduates and students who compete with glee clubs, marching bands, and tailgate spreads, ribbing their rivals to gain the upper hand, keeping their jocular rivalry vibrant.

两校的毕业生在校学生虚张声势，在合唱团、军 乐队、停车场面积面较劲，嘲弄对手以占风， 让对抗赛充满笑料活力。

The president and I covered a wide range of subjects during that first visit—the economy and Iraq, the press corps and Congress—with him never straying from his jocular, slightly fidgety persona.

在第一次访问期间，总统我谈到了广泛的主题——经济伊拉克、记团国会——他从未偏离他那幽默、略带烦躁的形象。

To have this happen with him, of all people, with Rhett who had no respect for women! She cried, expecting some coarse and jocular remark from him which she would never be able to forget.

这件事袋子偏偏发生在他面前，在这个从来不尊重妇女的瑞德面前呀！她一边哭，一边准备听他说出一些叫她一辈子也忘不了的粗鲁打趣的来。

Yeah, I mean, there were people around the ground where, when it actually was taken over, they were wearing the headdresses and apparently in a jocular way, embracing the whole notion of the Saudi connection.

是的，我的意思是， 在球场周围，当它实际被收购时， 有些人戴着头饰， 显然是以一种开玩笑的方式，欣然接受了与沙特相关的整个概念。

Long practised in all the subtle arts of his race, he drew, with great dexterity and quickness, the fantastic shadow that the natives were accustomed to consider as the evidence of a friendly and jocular disposition.

长期练习他种族的所有微妙艺术，他以极大的灵巧敏捷画出奇妙的阴影，当人习惯于将其视为友好诙谐性格的证据。

His physical appearance was striking— ebony hair, a strict, angular face, nose like an arrow pointing toward fierce, deep-set eyes. His lips were often pressed together in a jocular grin, as if all the world were his to laugh at.

他的外表很人注目——乌黑的头发，棱角分明的脸，鼻子像一枚箭头一样指向凶巴巴的深邃的眼睛。他常常抿着嘴笑，像是在开玩笑，仿佛全世界都是他的笑料似的。