You can use spiffing for a joke.

你可以用 spiffing 来开玩笑。

It's like they took me for a joke.

这感觉就像是他们把我当笑话看。

So, for a joke I brought it to the fair.

所以我开玩笑地把它带到了集市上。

" Maybe the boy meant it for a joke, Max, " Al said.

" 也许这小伙子是闹看玩的，麦克斯，" 艾尔说。

Malfoy, it seemed, had sneaked up behind Neville and grabbed him for a joke.

马尔福搞了个恶作剧。他悄悄藏到纳威后面，然后一把抱住了他。

So these are two old-fashioned slang expressions that you can use for a joke.

所以这是两个老式的俚语表达，你可以用它们开玩笑。

Now I didn't ask you that just for a joke or a sarcastic comment now, did I?

我问你并不是为了开玩笑，或者为了做出讽刺的评论，是吗？

" There's a customer out here looking for a joke cauldron, Mr. Weasley and Mr. Weasley, " she said.

“外面有一位顾客想要笑话坩埚，韦斯莱先生和韦斯莱先生。”她说。

I was in no mood for a joke.

【mood】我没心情开玩笑。

I didn't mean to vex you and I only meant it for a joke.

我不是故意惹你生气的，我只是想开个玩笑。

This sounds like the setup for a joke, but it's more of an etymological riddle.

这听起来像是一个笑话的设置， 但它更像是一个词源谜语。

I couldn’t go out with someone for a joke, could you?

【joke】我可不能拿谈恋爱当儿戏，对不对？

And what is it in our culture that makes it feel a fitting subject for a joke?

在我们的文化中，是什么让它成为一个合适的笑话主题？

Does it feel to you like anyone in this room is in the mood for a joke?

你觉得这屋里 谁有心情开玩笑吗？

" It was all in good fun, " meaning he didn't mean it in a bad way, it was just for a joke.

“这一切都很有趣， ” 意思是他并没有恶意， 只是开个玩笑。

When asked for a joke to cheer your correspondent up, for instance, the pretrained model GPT-2 just repeated the question back three times.

例如， 当被要求讲一个笑话来让记者高兴起来时，预训练模型 GPT-2 只是将问题重复了三遍。

Perhaps Gino had sold the baby cheap to her for a joke: it was just the kind of joke that would appeal to him.

也许吉诺把婴儿便宜卖给她是为了开玩笑：这正是那种会吸引他的玩笑。