"Hold on, arthur, my boy," he said, attempting to mask his anxiety with facetious utterance

“慢着，亚瑟，老兄，”他想说句俏皮话掩饰心中的紧张

…Mattie, encircled by facetious youths, and bright as a blackberry under her spreading hat, was brewing coffee over a gipsy fire.

…玛提的身边围着一圈嘻嘻哈哈的年轻人，她头上戴着一顶阔边的帽子，漂亮得像一颗乌莓，正在一堆野火上煮咖啡。

a facetious young man

爱开玩笑的青年.

Stop being facetious . This is a serious matter.

别开玩笑了,这是件正经的事。

a facetious story

滑稽故事.

Facetious remarks are part of his stock-in-trade.

讲俏皮话是他的拿手好戏.

She kept interrupting our discussion with facetious remarks.

她不断用开玩笑的话干扰我们的讨论.

a facetious remark

开玩笑(性质)的话.

Punning, facetious , irreverent, the funny man filled the newspapers and lighter periodicals with his material

那位诙谐作家满嘴双关语，逗乐话，以不敬的态度把他的作品填满报章和比较显赫的杂志。

A facetious young man

耍贫嘴的小伙子

He was so facetious that he turned everything into a joke

他好开玩笑，把一切都变成了戏谑。

He is so facetious that he turns everything into a joke.

他好开玩笑，把一切都变成戏谑。

He neither listened to the jokes of the friends behind him and on the box by his side nor enlivened them, as was his wont, by his own facetious sallies

他既不理睬坐在他旁边和后面的朋友们的调笑戏谑，也不象平时那样妙语横出，给她们助兴。

Keep it, in any case, familiar, facetious even, rather than pedantic and portentous

无论如何，要使它显得很随便，甚至滑稽可笑，而不要显得很迂腐，夜郎自大。

a would-be facetious man

想开玩笑的人.

It has been a triple error, he has been contradictory, rebellious and facetious

这话有三错:他自相矛盾!离经叛道!哗众取宠!

Yet there is also an art history of rubbish (and don’t forget, facetious remarks are welcome on this blog).

不过废品艺术却早有一段历史（别忘了，在此博客上欢迎戏谑的评论）。

Okay, so maybe we’re not as lazy I claim, and perhaps my nostalgia for a time I never lived is a little facetious .

好吧，或许我们不像我所说的那样懒散，或许我对自己从没经历过的事情进行怀旧有那么一点滑稽可笑。

facetious (adj. ) : joking or trying to be jocular, esp. at an imappropriate time

滑稽的；诙谐的；（尤指在不适当的时候）开玩笑的

The answers to the facetious questions above are, in all probability, no, no, yes, and yes.

上文几个恶搞问题最有可能的答案是：不、不、是的、是的。

Now you think that is facetious . It may not be beauty and intelligence but it may be something else that has an evolutionary advantage.

现在你认为这么说很可笑，这些基因可能既不美，也不高智能。但却可能是有进化优势的基因。

Mix in some French or Italian (paying careful attention to pronunciation) and you’ll be facetious in four languages.

在你的语言混杂法语或意大利语（注意他们的发音），那么四种语言结合会使你的话语变得幽默滑稽。