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

可以是很严肃地说这话，但是通常是开玩笑的口吻。

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

俚语的定义重在强调不同的，打趣的，有意思的，幽默的，独出心裁的意义。

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

我接受你玩笑式的羞辱 并当作友谊的象征。

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，有人说了一句俏皮话，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，这位可敬而风趣的会员兄弟般地对他说，‘杰姆，在那些冷酷的 Fact 成员中有一个很好的机会，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.

她很高兴按照他的要求去做：她的膝盖有点发抖，无法继续用那种诙谐的语气继续保持沉默。

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.

她没有精的，没有使用任何诙谐的手段——没有假装自己受到了诽谤——来了解她想要的东西。

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.

两校的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，在这个从来不尊重妇女的瑞德面前呀！她一边哭，一边准备听他说出一些叫她一辈子忘不了的粗鲁打趣的话来。

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.

长期练习他种族的所有微妙艺术，他以极大的灵和敏捷画出奇妙的阴影，当地人习惯于将其视为友好和诙谐性格的证据。

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.

他的外表很引人注目——乌黑的头发，棱角分明的脸，鼻子像一枚箭头一样指向凶巴巴的深邃的眼睛。他常常抿着嘴笑，像是在开玩笑，仿佛全世界都是他的笑料似的。