It was a mad orgy of imagination, wassailing in the skull of a dying man who half sobbed under his breath and was quick with the wild flutter of fading heart-beats.

Hail to the Wassail Bowl!

高声欢呼，献给饮宴杯②！

Wassail toast, singing one voice to a long friendship lang syne!

举杯痛饮，同声歌唱友谊地久天长！

Love and joy come to you and to you your wassail too.

爱和欢乐与酒杯同在。

Don't be offended by what be said; can't you tell when he has his tongue in his cheek?

不要为他的话生气；难道你听不出他是说着玩的吗？

He threatened to write to the newspapers about it, but I think he had his tongue in his cheek.

他威胁说要写信给报纸，不过我想他只是说说而已。

He said that he would go to see them, but I suspect that he spoke with his tongue in his cheek.

他说他要去看我们，但我怀疑他是言不由衷。

When he said he wasn't going to run for office any more, he probably had his tongue in his cheek.

他说他不打算再进行竞选公职时，大概是言不由衷。

He pretended to be serious, but you could tell that he had hi tongue in his cheek.

他装作一本正经，可是你看得出他是在开玩笑。

He said he was sorry, but I knew he spoke with his tongue in his cheek.

他说他很抱歉，但我知道他毫无诚意。

She always speaks with her tongue in her cheek.

她说话总是假惺惺地。

Back in 2000 Joseph Walther, a communications professor at Michigan State University, co-wrote an article in which he suggested, tongue in cheek, that the criteria used to call someone an internet addict might also show that most professors were "addicted" to academia.

2000年时，密西根州立大学传播学教授约瑟夫.沃尔瑟在与他人合写的一篇文章中开玩笑似地说道，如果按照所谓的网瘾标准，大部分的教授也可以叫做“学术上瘾”了。

The CDC had published instructional materials on how to survive a "zombie apocalypse," in what the agency now calls "a tongue in cheek campaign to engage new audiences with messages of preparedness."

美国疾病控制预防中心曾出版了一些指南资料教导人们如何在“僵尸末日”避难。而该机构现在称“这只是场不必当真的宣传活动，给新近听说的人一些预防僵尸的信息。”

" I said, tongue in cheek, that when we have a mismatch, we want to take advantage of it," Jackson said. "He said,'I have a mismatch every game.'"

“我说，舌头嘴里，当我们有一个配合失误时，我们要充分利用它”杰克逊说。“他说，'我每场比赛都有配合失误。”

The bizarre names have divided the online community into two camps: Those that think the names are just outright stupid, and those that are fans of the tongue in cheek naming.

对于这些奇葩公司名，网络社区分为两派：一派认为这些名字蠢到家了，另一派则认为这些戏谑的公司名很好玩。

Over the years the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has released a couple of tongue in cheek "zombie warnings," which really are just disaster preparedness stunts.

在过去的几年里，美国疾病控制和防御中心也曾发布过数十条半开玩笑地“僵尸预警”，不过这只是预防疾病的噱头而已。

Mikes wrote later, tongue in cheek, that he had expected his English friends to be very angry at the mocking portrait he painted of their country.

迈克斯先生后来还非常好意思地写道，他本来以为他的英格朋友会因为他对他们祖国的嘲讽刻画而大发雷霆。

The nuclear weapons store is very close to the town, and some of the residents, tongue in cheek, are calling their town the safest place on earth.

核武器仓库离这个镇子很近，一些居民讥讽道他们的镇子是世界上最安全的地方。

As to how much our costumes would sell on eBay but it was very tongue in cheek. It is not really in the spirit, is it?

说我们的演出服要是放到易趣网上能卖多少钱，但那只是玩笑话，并不是认真的，不是吗？

Going to see a comedy, especially a tongue in cheek one, gives us a chance to laugh at things that may not be socially acceptable to laugh at.

去剧院看一场喜剧，特别是那些无厘头的剧，为我们创造了一个释放自己天性的机会——我们可以不要在乎世俗的眼光，开心地笑一笑就好。，当真？更多实用有趣节目搜索微博微信：早安英文

" Are you in earnest?" he asked in a deadly calm voice. She made the remark with tongue in cheek.

你可当真？他带着极为镇定的口吻问。她说这些话是带挖苦口吻的。