Her Tweet was meant as a joke.

她一开始发这条推文本是开个玩笑。

Sometimes we use it as a joke.

有时我们用它开玩笑。

Many regarded the whole thing as a joke.

许多人把整个这件事当作一个玩笑。

So, I said to my father as a joke.

于是，我开着玩笑对父亲说。

I put that tube top on as a joke.

我穿女生的紧身衣是为了要好笑。

But Mr. Gendron described the remark as a joke, the official said.

但这位官员说，詹德龙称这句话是开玩笑。

The physicist said he published the image and tweet as a joke.

这位物理学家说，他在推特发布这张照片是为了开玩笑。

Also, we never use " Good day" in modern English, except as a joke.

还有，在现代英语中，我们从来不说 " Good day" （日安），除非是开玩笑。

Please, you're kidding, right? I wrote that one as a joke for you.

拜托，你是在开玩笑，对吧？ 我故意写那份评估表来跟你开玩笑。

He knew about our texts, so he e-mailed me the article as a joke.

他知道我们的短信，所以给我发那封邮件开玩笑。

And that's how people often use it: as a joke.

人们就是通过开玩笑的方式使用这个短语的。

As a joke,this customer who has a crush on me,gave me a $20,000 tip.

有个喜欢我的顾客开玩笑 给我两万元的小费。

Now, it came off as a joke but as they say, there's truth in comedy.

其实这本来只是一个笑话，但笑话中也蕴含了真理。

Her father had written the note as a joke and had thrown it into the Atlantic Ocean.

她的父亲像开玩笑一样写了一个便条并扔进了大西洋。

That's when someone jumps in front of a camera uninvited. It's usually done as a joke.

那是指一个人在未受邀的情况下突然闯入镜头。这种通常是一个玩笑。

So, when I told him that I'd done it as a joke, he got really salty.

所以，当我告诉他我是开玩笑的时候，他很不高兴。

To kid means to tell someone something that's not true, and we often kid people as a joke.

“开玩笑”的意思是告诉别人一些不真实的事情，我们经常戏弄别人来开玩笑。

But the concept of the grandmother neuron actually started out as a joke — not a real-life scientific hypothesis.

但祖母神经元的概念实际上一开始只是个玩笑，而不是现实生活中的科学假设。

Maybe one person put an umbrella up there as a joke, and then other people started doing it, too.

可能某个人开玩笑地把一把伞放在了那儿，而其他人也开始照做了。

I told him we were the honeymooners, and, as a joke, he threatened to punch Dede to the moon.

我告诉他我们才在《蜜月期》，他开玩笑威胁要把迪迪揍到月亮上去。