Any man will admit, if need be, that his sight is not good, or that he cannot swim, or shoots badly with a rifle, but to touch upon his sense of humour is to give him a mortal 9 affront.
如有需要,任何人都愿意承认自己视力不好,或者不会游泳,或者枪法很糟糕,但假如你说他缺乏幽默感,那于他则是一种致命的公然侮辱。
After all, he thought it a good thingfor a man to have his authority respected in his ownhouse, even if his sense of humour sometimes madehim question the force of his mandate.
他想,一个男人的权威在自己家中受到尊重毕竟是件好事,尽管他的幽默感有时也使他怀疑自己得到的信赖到底有多大威力。
He told the BBC he'd forgotten he was addressing a worldwide audience rather than joking among friends who knew his sense of humour and was sorry.
他告诉BBC,他忘记了自己是在全世界观众面前发表的讲话,而不是在了解他的幽默感的朋友面前开玩笑。他对此深表歉意。
Because he could say fluent tongue twisters and his sense of humour still existed, a circus owner appreciated him very much.
由于他能说一口流利的绕口令并且他的幽默感仍然存在,一个马戏团的老板对他非常的欣赏。