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1·These word games we call puns.

这些文字游戏被我们称为双关语。

2·I think journalism is the last refuge for puns.

我觉得新闻业是双关语最后的阵地了。

3·Puns are a form of wordplay that exists in all languages.

双关语是所有语言里都存在的一种文字游戏。

4·The jokes themselves are often based on puns and wordplay.

这些笑话多是建立在双关语和文字游戏的基础之上。

5·Shakespeare is famous for his use of puns in his writing.

莎士比亚以他作品中的双关语闻名。

6·Puns, to be fair, are usually impossible to translate faithfully.

公平地说，双关语通常不可能被忠实地翻译出来。

7·Puns aside, there is a very simple solution to this problem.

双关语外，还有一个非常简单的解决这个问题。

8·Chinese is brimming with puns in part because it has so few sounds.

中国话里充满了双关语，部分原因是它的发音非常有限。

9·It is also about history, gravity, mass, weight, music, Lego and puns.

但它也涉及历史、重力、质量、重量、音乐、乐高和双关语。

10·He even translates well some of the Greek puns and word plays that usually are lost.

他甚至转换好了一些希腊双关语和俏皮话，其通常不见经传。

双关语

1·He composed them, alternately, in three languages - English, French and German - and they are crowded with neologisms and multilingual puns.

他的信分别使用了三种语言——英语、法语和德语；自造新词和多语种双关语比比皆是。

2·These individuals - called Termites, if you like bad puns - have been followed ever since.

这些人一直被跟踪观察——如果你喜欢恶搞的双关语，可称之为白蚁。

3·There is plenty more such drivel, with other details of plot, scene and character being the subject of a farrago of bogus inference, forced taxonomy and lame puns.

在这本书里还有更多这样的胡言乱语，用其他情节、场景和人物的细节来作为伪造推理、强制分类和毫无说服力的双关语的论据。

4·Others have wondered whether the choice of a white dress is perhaps misleading, while others make the inevitable puns: They make a lovely pair seems to be the most common.

有人怀疑选择白色婚纱是否可能具有误导性，而其他人则习惯性地用双关语插科打诨：最常见的好像是“他们真是天生一对啊”。

5·The jokes themselves are often based on puns and wordplay.

这些笑话多是建立在双关语和文字游戏的基础之上。