Half in jest he chose the pseudonym the shadow knows .
他半开玩笑地透露,他选用的网名叫“知情影客”。
But if he speaks in jest , his words are idle among men who cannot receive them .
但如果他是在开玩笑,那么他的话语在那些无法理解的人们中就变得空虚了。
" How can a country that blocks youtube ever be a financial powerhouse ? " Asks one market analyst , only half in jest .
一位市场分析师半开玩笑半认真地说:“一个屏蔽youtube的国家,怎么可能成为金融霸主呢?”
Martinis " make me hate the people I love and love the people I hate , " a woman once commented in jest .
“马提尼酒让我恨那些我爱的人,让我爱那些我恨的人”,一位女士曾经开玩笑说。
It has conflated the interests of party and state , dishing out contracts for public works as rewards for loyalty-hence the bitter jest that the government is in hock to " tenderpreneurs " .
A steakhouse dinner date went south after she told her companion in jest that he was holding his knife and fork in the wrong hands .
她开玩笑的告诉她的同事说:在一家牛排餐厅,他连拿刀和叉都拿错了
Randall cites autistics and - not entirely in jest - bureaucrats and academics as good examples of how simply having extraordinary technical skills can be meaningless without the creativity to exploit them .
We may often approve of a jest , and think the laughter of the company quite just and proper , though we ourselves do not laugh , because , perhaps , we are in a grave humour , or happen to have our attention engaged with other objects .
At a meeting of chief investment officers that I attended in new york , for example , some cios suggested half in jest that the investment community should start asking whether some large companies ( such as ibm ) could provide an alternative benchmark .
No wonder a senior member of the us government remarked a couple of years ago , partly in jest , that sooner or later , goldman " is going to have to choose whether it wants to really be american or not " .