practical joke

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Only a handful of Conservative MPs voted for him as speaker: one constituent says he was chosen by Labour as a “practical joke”.
只有議會中的一些保守人士投票贊成他作為發(fā)言人：某個選民說他被工黨選中純屬“惡作劇”。
Note: These tweeters may well be Harvard doctoral candidates playing an elaborate practical joke, but the verbiage and profile photos seem to indicate otherwise.
注：這些微博文章可能是哈佛博士研究生精心設(shè)計的惡作劇，但是從措辭和簡介照片來看似乎不像。
"When Obama won, my colleagues played a practical joke on me -- they made me wear a suit, a tie, and took pictures of me posing as Obama," Anas told reporters on Saturday.
阿納斯上周六接受記者采訪時說：“奧巴馬勝選那天，同事們搞了個惡作劇---他們讓我穿上西裝，打上領(lǐng)帶，扮成奧巴馬拍照?！?/li>
原聲例句
So there is this story about his Uncle Hoskins who takes his horse and cart with Richard in the back and drives it into the middle of the Mississippi River as a kind of practical joke on Richard.
有個故事是關(guān)于他的叔叔Hoskins的,他讓理查坐在他的馬車后,卻連人帶車掉到密西西比河里,這被作為了一個理查的真實笑話。
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Second, please stop comparing Twitter to Zynga (which is a game publisher) and Groupon (which is an accounting practical joke).
FORBES: Yes, Twitter is Worth at Least $7 Billion
In some countries, bamboozled bargain-hunters, abandoned in an obscure field as part of a giant practical joke, would probably turn furiously on their tormentors.
ECONOMIST: An ingenious satire on supermarkets has Czechs chuckling
The real question facing industrialised countries is how to create a legal environment that counts cyberaggression not as a kind of practical joke, but a grave breach of the legal order, akin to terrorism, international organised crime, or aggression against another state.
ECONOMIST: Cyberwarfare

a joke that makes someone seem silly and involves a physical action rather than words

A practical joke is a trick that is intended to embarrass someone or make them look ridiculous.