It can be serious, but it's usually jocular.

可以是很严肃地说这话，但是通常是开玩笑口吻。

The definitions tend to stress different and jocular, funny, humorous, inventive, that kind of thing.

俚语定义重在强调，打趣，有意思，幽默，独出心裁意义。

Well, I accept your jocular insult as a token of bonding.

我接你玩笑式羞辱 并当作友谊象征。

Both of them enjoyed a jig and jive to the jocular music " jingle bells" .

两人都喜欢伴随着诙谐音乐" 铃儿响叮当" 跳起快步舞和摇摆舞。

They shook their heads, and some one made a jocular remark which I did not catch, but which raised a general laugh.

那些人都摇头，有人说一句俏皮话，引得人们哈哈大笑，我没有听清。

To whom this honourable and jocular, member fraternally said one day, 'Jem, there's a good opening among the hard Fact fellows, and they want men.

有一天，这位可敬而风趣会员兄弟般地对他说，‘杰姆，在那些冷酷 Fact 成员中有一个很好机会，他们需要男人。

She was glad to do as he asked: her knees were a little shaky, and unable to continue in that jocular tone she kept silent.

她很高兴按照他要求去做：她膝盖有点发抖，无法继续用那种诙谐语气继续保持沉默。

She was incapable of elaborate artifice, and she resorted to no jocular device—to no affectation of the belief that she had been maligned—to learn what she desired.

她没有精巧技巧，也没有使用任何诙谐手段——也没有假装自己诽谤——来解她想要东西。

At stake are bragging rights for graduates and students who compete with glee clubs, marching bands, and tailgate spreads, ribbing their rivals to gain the upper hand, keeping their jocular rivalry vibrant.

两校毕业生和在校学生虚张声势，在合唱团、军 乐队、停车场面积面较劲，嘲弄对手以占风， 让对抗赛充满笑料和活力。

To have this happen with him, of all people, with Rhett who had no respect for women! She cried, expecting some coarse and jocular remark from him which she would never be able to forget.

这件事袋子偏偏发生在他面前，在这个从来尊重妇女瑞德面前呀！她一边哭，一边准备听他说出一些叫她一辈子也忘粗鲁打趣话来。

Long practised in all the subtle arts of his race, he drew, with great dexterity and quickness, the fantastic shadow that the natives were accustomed to consider as the evidence of a friendly and jocular disposition.

长期练习他种族所有微妙艺术，他以极大灵巧和敏捷画出奇妙阴影，当地人习惯于将其视为友好和诙谐性格证据。

His physical appearance was striking— ebony hair, a strict, angular face, nose like an arrow pointing toward fierce, deep-set eyes. His lips were often pressed together in a jocular grin, as if all the world were his to laugh at.

他外表很引人注目——乌黑头发，棱角分明脸，鼻子像一枚箭头一样指向凶巴巴深邃眼睛。他常常抿着嘴笑，像是在开玩笑，仿佛全世界都是他笑料似。