當講笑話的人自己先笑時,這個笑話就失去了一切意義。

The joke loses everything when the joker laughs himself.

Source: Tatoeba

Sentence Composition

=1 dāng
  1. to be
  2. to act as
  3. manage
  4. withstand
  5. when
  6. during
  7. ought
  8. should
  9. match equally
  10. equal
  11. same
  12. obstruct
  13. just at (a time or place)
  14. on the spot
  15. right
  16. just at
=1 dàng
  1. at or in the very same...
  2. suitable
  3. adequate
  4. fitting
  5. proper
  6. to replace
  7. to regard as
  8. to think
  9. to pawn
  10. (coll.) to fail (a student)
2 jiǎng
  1. to speak
  2. to explain
  3. to negotiate
  4. to emphasize
  5. to be particular about
  6. as far as sth is concerned
  7. speech
  8. lecture
=3 笑話 xiàohua
  1. to laugh at; to mock
  2. ridiculous; absurd

classifier:

=3 笑話 xiàohuà
  1. (figuratively) joke; sham
  2. joke (in spoken form) (Classifier: m; c)
  3. joke; sham
  4. to mock; to ridicule; to laugh at
=4 de
  1. of; ~'s (possessive particle)
  2. (used after an attribute when it modifies a noun)
  3. (used at the end of a declarative sentence for emphasis)
  4. (used after a noun, verb or adjective to form a nominal expression, as in 皮革的 de "one made of leather" or 跑堂兒的 pǎotángrde "a waiter (literally, one who runs back and forth in a restaurant)" or 新的 xīnde "new one")
  5. also pr. or di in poetry and songs
=4 a taxi; a cab (abbr. for 的士 shì)
=4 really and truly
=4 (bound form) bull's-eye; target
5 rén person; people

classifiers: ,

6 自己
  1. oneself
  2. one's own
=7 xiān
  1. beforehand; first; earlier
  2. at first; originally
  3. for the time being; for now
  4. (prefix) my late (in referring to deceased relatives older than oneself)
=7 xiǎn only used in 先馬先马
=8 xiào old variant of xiào
=8 xiào
  1. to laugh; to smile
  2. to laugh at
=9 Shí surname Shi
=9 shí
  1. o'clock
  2. time
  3. when
  4. hour
  5. season
  6. period
10 這個 zhège
  1. (pronoun) this
  2. (adjective) this
=11 笑話 xiàohua
  1. to laugh at; to mock
  2. ridiculous; absurd

classifier:

=11 笑話 xiàohuà
  1. (figuratively) joke; sham
  2. joke (in spoken form) (Classifier: m; c)
  3. joke; sham
  4. to mock; to ridicule; to laugh at
12 jiù
  1. (after a suppositional clause) in that case; then
  2. (after a clause of action) as soon as; immediately after
  3. (same as 就是 jiùshì) merely; nothing else but; simply; just; precisely; exactly
  4. only; as little as
  5. as much as; as many as
  6. to approach; to move towards
  7. to undertake; to engage in
  8. (often followed by zhe) taking advantage of
  9. (of food) to go with
  10. with regard to; concerning
  11. (pattern: jiù ... ...) even if ... still ...
  12. (pattern: ... jiù ...) if not ... then must be ...
13 失去 shī to lose
=14 le
  1. (completed action marker)
  2. (modal particle indicating change of state, situation now)
  3. (modal particle intensifying preceding clause)
=14 liǎo
  1. to finish
  2. (used with or after a verb to express (im)possibility, as in 忘不了 wàngbuliǎo "cannot forget")
  3. (literary) (usually followed by a negative such as or ) completely (not); entirely (not); (not) in the least
  4. to understand clearly (variant of liǎo)
=14 liǎo
  1. (of eyes) bright
  2. clear-sighted
  3. to understand clearly
=14 liào unofficial variant of liào
15 一切 qiè
  1. everything
  2. every
  3. all
16 意義
  1. sense
  2. meaning
  3. significance
  4. importance

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