And apparently the prankster felt pretty bad about it and returned it back to its original place.

显然，这个作剧者对此感到很糟糕，于是将其送。

In 1981 a prankster tried to move it, but was quickly stopped by the Israeli police.

1981 年，一个作剧者试图移动它，但很快就被以色列警察阻止了。

He who practices such witticisms is called a practical joker.

实践这种俏皮话的人被称作剧者。

The pranksters told the people that they were IKEA pictures in the end.

作剧者最后告诉人们，它们是宜家的照片。

The pranksters let people talk about the pictures.

作剧者让人们谈论这些照片。

A page of silliness – Will as prankster, laughing, human.

蠢的一页——威尔像作剧者、大笑者、人类。

'Well, would you say he was a practical joker, for instance'?

“好吧，你会说他是个作剧者吗？”

From the look of it, these ubiquitous cold bugs are mischief-makers in our bodies.

从表面上看，这些无不在的感冒虫就是我们身体里的作剧者。

In the end, the pranksters tell the people that the pictures are from IKEA.

最后， 作剧者告诉人们这些照片来自宜家。

There are people who believe that poltergeists are not actual ghosts and were never human in the first place.

有些人作剧者不是真正的鬼魂，而且根本就不是人类。

But when it was rumored that his room was to be searched by the faculty, the joker determined to cheat them of their prey.

但当听说他的房间要被系里检査时，作剧者决定骗他们一下。

Some people even placed tanuki statues outside their homes and businesses to trick potential pranksters into taking their antics elsewhere.

有些人甚至将狸猫雕像放在他们的家和公司外面，以诱使潜在的作剧者将他们的滑稽动作带到别。

It was very popular during the election season for people to– for hoaxsters to make up stories that played to people's political biases.

在选举季节，人们非常流行——作剧者编造故事来迎合人们的政治偏见。

It is still possible for an artist, or a prankster, or an artist-prankster, to slip undetected into the backcountry and leave something weird and alluring behind.

对于一个艺术家，或者一个作剧者，或者一个作剧艺术家来说，仍然有可能在未被察觉的情况下溜进荒郊野外，留下一些怪异而诱人的东西。

Difficult words: prankster (a person who plays pranks -- practical jokes -- on people), place verb (to put), appraisal (an opinion judging the worth of something).

难词：作剧者（对人作剧的人）、地点动词（放置）、评估（判断某物价值的意见）。

On the departure of the hated proctor, a broad grin would spread over the countenance of the joker, and in a little while the scene would be repeated with variations.

讨厌的学监走了以后，这个作剧者咧嘴笑了起来，一会儿这样的情景又重复出现，只是每次略有不同罢了。

Difficult words: prankster (a person who plays pranks -- practical jokes -- on people), cheap (something cheap does not cost a lot of money), IKEA (a big shop with cheap things).

难的词：作剧者（对人作剧的人），便宜的（便宜的东西并不花很多钱），宜家（卖便宜东西的大商店）。