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

可以很严肃地说这话，但通常开口吻。

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” 同义词，除非语轻松幽默。

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

俚语定义重在强调不同，打趣，有意思，幽默，独出心裁意义。

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.

两校毕业生和在校学生虚张声势，在合唱团、军 乐队、停车场面积上面较劲，嘲弄对手以占上风， 让对抗赛充满料和活力。

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粗鲁打趣话来。

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，有人说一句俏皮话，引得人们哈哈大，我没有听清。

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

起初，他们只开地谈论喝酒和女人。

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.

长期练习他种族所有微妙艺术，他以极大灵巧和敏捷画出奇妙阴影，当地人习惯于将其视为友好和诙谐性格证据。

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.

，我意思， 在球场周围，当它实际被收购时， 有些人戴着头饰， 显然以一种开方式，欣然接受与沙特相关整个概念。

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.

她没有精巧技巧，也没有使用任何诙谐手段——也没有假装自己受到诽谤——来解她想要东西。

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.

她很高兴按照他要求去做：她膝盖有点发抖，无法继续用那种诙谐语继续保持沉默。

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

他用逗趣讽刺针对新自由主义者和上层阶级费用来让记者们保持清醒，这些人几十年来自由市场主要受益者。

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

我接受你式羞辱 并当作友谊象征。

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.

他外表很引人注目——乌黑头发，棱角分明脸，鼻子像一枚箭头一样指向凶巴巴深邃眼睛。他常常抿着嘴，像在开，仿佛全世界都他料似。

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

（开）我知道他们会应付这种情况。

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，总统和我谈到广泛主题——经济和伊拉克、记者团和国会——他从未偏离他那幽默、略带烦躁形象。

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

虽然这种痴迷似乎戈什凯维奇独有，但冈察洛夫觉得它足够有趣，因此相应地报告它。