Part of the issue is that young people tend to use the thumbs up in jest.

这个问题与年轻人往往开玩笑式点赞有关。

Henry had certainly been only in jest in what he had told her that morning.

亨利那天早上对她说的话当然只是开玩笑。

" Much as I did at the Stone Mill just before the warhorns sounded, " Edmure said, only half in jest.

" 我觉得自己身在石磨坊，而战斗刚要打响。" 艾德慕半开玩笑地回答。

Hello, Howard.I've realized that you scaring me was all in jest.

嗨 霍华德 我知道你吓唬我 是开玩笑的。

He stared at me with wide-open eyes, and made his voice like that of a lion, in jest, but without laughing.

他张大了眼看着我，毫无笑容地用了狮子样的声音说可笑的话。

The Cardinal smiled, and approved of it in jest, but the rest liked it in earnest.

红衣主教笑了笑，开玩笑地表示赞同，但其他人却由衷地喜欢。

This, even in jest, legitimizes the ideology which claims whiteness as the only definition of being French.

即使是开玩笑，这也使声称白人是法国人的唯一定义的意识形态合法化。

And whether this statement was made in jest, conjecture or just plain ignorance, the statement really hurt.

不管这个声明是开玩笑、猜测还是只是无知，这个声明真的很伤人。

" Oho, " says Barbro in jest, " has Axel here been so hard on you this while" ?

“哦，”巴布罗开玩笑地说，“阿克塞尔这段时间对你这么狠吗？”

Salladhor Saan spit out an olive pit. " Davos, good Davos, you must not be saying such things, even in jest" .

萨拉多·桑恩一口吐出橄榄核。" 戴佛斯，噢，好戴佛斯，这玩笑可开不得。"

Why, then, he'd come and give them a hand himself, would Gustaf, though that was only said in jest.

为什么，那么，他会亲自来帮助他们，古斯塔夫会吗，尽管那只是开玩笑说的。

When such utterances are spoken in jest or in pretense, not all the felicity conditions are satisfied and the magic doesn't happen.

当这种话语以戏谑或虚假的方式被说出时，不是所有的合适性条件都得到满足，魔力就不会发生。

" Thank you, I will, " he answered in jest, and a few months later he did it in earnest.

“谢谢你， 我会的，” 他开玩笑地回答， 几个月后他认真地做到了。

That she was doing for an earnest reason what would most naturally be done in jest was at any rate a safe secret.

她演戏当然是闹着玩的，但她却是为了一个正经目的，无论怎样，这个秘密不会泄漏。

They were first mentioned by a 15th century German engineer, likely in jest, alongside fart jokes and a device for invisibility.

他们首先被一位 15 世纪的德国工程师提到，很可能是开玩笑， 还提到了放屁笑话和隐形装置。

And that includes the author's mother. So you know I say half in jest but it's actually really sad. Because...certainly sad for me, as an academic.

其中还包括作者的母亲。这话虽然是半开玩笑，但其实很可悲，因为...作为学者，我觉得很可悲。

He chose the latter course and made it very effective by throwing himself down before his offended goddess, as he had often done in jest.

他选择了后一种做法，并像他经常开玩笑那样，扑倒在被冒犯的女神面前，使之非常有效。

'I did not like, ' said Margaret, hastily, 'his way of advocating what he knew to be wrong — so glaringly wrong — even in jest'.

“我不喜欢，”玛格丽特急忙说道，“他鼓吹他知道是错误的事情的方式——如此明显的错误——即使是开玩笑”。

The event would later be claimed by a Matty Roberts as having been started in jest, but the joke very quickly caught on and went global.

马蒂·罗伯茨 (Matty Roberts) 后来声称该事件是开玩笑开始的，但这个笑话很快就流行起来并传遍了全球。

He gave her a glance that was almost playful, so that except that she knew him so well, she might have thought he was speaking in jest.

他几乎是戏谑地看了她一眼， 要不是她太了解他， 她可能还以为他是在开玩笑。