Übersetzungsbeispiele
Verb
There were times when the situation seemed so serious that, as the saying goes, we could only joke about it.
Hubo momentos en que la situación parecía tan grave que, para utilizar la famosa citación, sólo podíamos bromear al respecto.
Saung Win Latt, a famous short story writer, has been detained since early 1997 and is serving a seven-year jail term for "violating the press" by making a joke about the junta during a literary talk.
Saung Win Latt, famoso escritor de cuentos, está en la cárcel desde principios de 1997 cumpliendo siete años de condena por haber "violado la prensa" al bromear sobre la Junta en una charla literaria.
Stop making jokes.
Deja de bromear.
No, not jokes.
No parece bromear.
Joke about what?
¿Bromear de que?
I shouldn't joke.
No debo bromear.
Joke about that.
bromear sobre eso.
It was a joke, of course - a joke at his expense.
Sólo pretendía bromear, por supuesto, bromear a sus propias expensas.
But we shouldn’t joke.
Pero no debemos bromear.
Was he intending to joke?
¿Trataba de bromear?
There was no time for jokes after that.
Ya no tendría ocasión de bromear más.
She is fond of a joke.
Le gusta mucho bromear.
This was no time for jokes.
Era el mejor momento para bromear.
He did not seem to be joking.
No parecía bromear.
I tried to joke with him.
Traté de bromear con él.
      I shouldn't joke about it.
No debería bromear con esto.
Telling jokes about Galicians.
La de contar chistes de gallegos.
Some people crack jokes all the time;
Hay gente que no para de contar chistes;
He told jokes sometimes.
A veces le daba por contar chistes;
Dozo starts tellin jokes.
Dozo empieza a contar chistes.
Tell dirty jokes in the canteen.
Contará chistes verdes en la cantina.
He's always drunk and trying to tell jokes.
Siempre está borracho y tratando de contar chistes.
The guests didn’t stop laughing or telling jokes.
Los invitados no dejaron de reír ni de contar chistes.
I remember that he liked to tell jokes all the time.
Recuerdo que le gustaba contar chistes todo el rato.
- I think this is not the time to joke.
—Me parece que no es esta ocasión de chancearse.
It is dangerous to joke with the members of the Hoolygani gaida .
Es peligroso chancearse de los miembros de la gaida de los Hoolyganis.
said Little Flocco, who was always in the mood to joke and torment his old Breton.
—dijo «Petifoque», siempre dispuesto a chancearse del viejo bretón.
“He’s either an escaped lunatic,” said Beau with disgust, “or else he’s one of those eccentric tycoons you read about who like to play. This is a joke.
—O el tipo es un loco escapado —exclamo Hermoso con disgusto— o se trata de uno de esos magnates excéntricos a quienes deleita chancearse. Esto es una broma.
While those devils of men, in the midst of so many risks, took pleasure in joking as if they were on the deck of a frigate in port, the Mandans hurried down into the dinghies that surrounded the ship.
Mientras aquellos diablos de hombres, en medio de tantos riesgos, se complacían en chancearse como si estuviesen en la tolda de una fragata en puerto, los mandanos se apresuraron a tripular sus barcas, que rodeaban el desmantelado bergantín.
"Actually, Alex, I don't usually tell jokes.
—Por supuesto que sí, Alex. No suelo hablar en broma.
We have to joke, don't we, about serious things.
Hay que hablar en broma de las cosas serias, ¿no le parece?
Jamie couldn’t really do jokes, not at his own expense.
Jamie era incapaz de hablar en broma, no a sus expensas.
“How could he joke about something he’d never seen?
—¿Cómo iba a hablar en broma sobre una cosa que no había visto nunca?
Because he whipped himself, Señor Eduardo would try to joke to Juan Diego about it;
Como el ‘señor Eduardo’ se flagelaba, procuraba hablar en broma con Juan Diego al respecto;
the older boy yells at Scottie. “Go find your own lineup.” I watch Scottie respond with a hesitant, nervous look as though what the boy said was a joke.
Veo que Scottie reacciona con una actitud vacilante y nerviosa, como si el chico hablara en broma.
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