Amazing! This moving a story is a first for me! It's truly an epic among epics!
凄いです！こんな感動的な話は初めてです！まさに美談の中の美談です！
Did you think that I was joking?
私が冗談をいったと思いましたか？
Joking apart, you ought to see a doctor about your headache.
冗談はともかく、君の頭脳は医者にみせるべきだ。
I cannot help laughing at her joke.
彼女の冗談は笑わずにはいられない。
You must be kidding!
冗談でしょう。
She made an effort at joking but it fell quite flat.
彼女は冗談を言おうと努力したが、うまくいかなかった。
I cannot help laughing at the joke.
その冗談に笑わざるを得ない。
It is not always easy to make a good joke.
うまい冗談を言うことはいつもたやすいとは限らない。
He needs a few jokes to lighten up his talk.
彼は話を和らげるために若干の冗談を必要とする。
He loves talking about politics.
彼は政治談義が好きだ。
You cannot be serious.
御冗談でしょう。
Of course he thought it was a joke and let it slide with a "hm?" but he was seriously annoyed. (I mean, just don't say things like that even as a joke!)
By the by, this ability to will fire into existence is apparently called pyrokinesis.
余談だが、この念発火能力のことをパイロキネシスというらしい。
Whether we find a joke funny or not largely depends on where we have been brought up.
冗談をおもしろいと思うかどうかは、主として育った場所による。
I'm very fond of joking.
私は冗談好きです。
I consulted with my father about the plan.
その計画について父に相談した。
He has nobody to consult.
彼は相談する人がいない。
I could not but laugh at his joke.
私は彼の冗談を聞いて笑わずにはいられなかった。
I did that without asking for anyone's advice.
誰にも相談せずにやった。
Then, while saying this, the memories of the men who had seduced her, her husband's colleague who had approached her as if it were a joke, the section chief with whom she had held hands, her relative who she had tried to kiss while she was drunk, shined a
Comedians base their jokes on tragic situations like violent death or serious accidents.
コメディアンは無惨な死や大事故といった悲劇的状況を冗談のネタにしている。
The methods used to overcome stress are different for men and women: drinking is the major method used by men, while women deal with stress by chatting.
