And the courtiers were amazed, and some of them laughed, for they thought that he was jesting.

群臣都感到很惊讶，有些人甚至笑，因为他们认为国王是在开玩笑。

" Surely, " cried Silas, " surely this is not a time for jesting" .

“当然，”赛拉斯喊道，“现在肯定不是开玩笑时候。”

" How do you do, Agrippina Petrovna? What's the news" ? asked Nekhludoff, jesting.

“你好，阿格里皮娜·得罗芙娜？有什么消息吗？ ”聂赫留朵夫开玩笑地问。

Peter Gerasimovich was jesting with the Jewish clerk, and both of them burst out laughing.

得·格拉西莫维奇正在和犹太文员开玩笑， 他们都放声大笑。

He had nearly swooned at what Lord Henry had said in a chance mood of cynical jesting.

他差点被亨利勋爵带着愤世嫉俗玩笑说话惊呆。

For I have been jesting with a Butterfly ever since I came into the garden'. And he told Balkis what he had done.

因为自从我进入花园以来， 我就一直在和一只蝴蝶开玩笑。 ” 他告诉巴尔基斯他做什么。

Katrine is used to jesting with her customers, and asks him teasingly if he is off to see his sweetheart in the south again.

Katrine 习惯于和客开玩笑，并开玩笑地问他是否要去南方再见他爱人。

Mrs. Montgomery stared; she evidently thought he was jesting; but she presently saw that he was not, and the complication of her feelings became painful.

蒙哥马利夫人瞪大眼睛； 显然以为他是在开玩笑。 但很快就发现他不是， 杂感情变得痛苦起来。

Before dinner he would lie down in the woods and sleep; then, at dinner, he made merry, jesting with his aunts; then went out riding or rowing.

晚饭前，他会躺在树林里睡觉； 然后，在晚餐时，他和他阿姨们开玩笑， 取乐。 然后出去骑马或划船。

When the battle was done, Dany rode her silver through the fields of the dead. Her handmaids and the men of her khas came after, smiling and jesting among themselves.

战事结束之后，丹妮骑着银马穿过遍野横尸，女仆和卡斯部众紧随其后，此嬉笑玩闹。

" Nope, not jesting, " said Harry, his eyes flicking from Death Eater to Death Eater, looking for a weak link, a space through which they could escape. " How come Voldemort wants it? "

“不，我没有开玩笑，”哈利目光掠过一个个食死徒，想搜寻一个薄弱环节，一个能够让他们从其中逃脱空隙，“为什么伏地魔想要它？”

Oline, no doubt, thought this ill-timed jesting. Oh, she had herself been cheated of her due; for all that she had managed to squeeze out something like real tears over old Sivert's grave.

毫无疑问，奥琳认为这是不合时宜玩笑。哦，自己被骗应得；尽管设法在老西维特坟墓上挤出真正眼泪。

Eleseus was the man for this sort of work; he was bright and quick, and encouraged the invalid by assuring him that things were all right; the two had got on well together, even to jesting at times.

Eleseus 是这类工作合适人选。他聪明伶俐，向病人保证一切都好，以此鼓励他。两人相处得很好，有时甚至会开玩笑。