punch line

基本解释

“Do you want fries with that” will no longer be a national punch line but rather an unattainable dream.
“你需要配上炸薯条吗？”这句话将不再是一句民族的妙语，相反，将变成无法实现的梦想。
My attitude toward death was captured by the punch line in an old joke about Sister Jones, the most devout woman in her church.
我对死亡的态度，正好与关于琼斯修女的一个老笑话中的一个妙语不谋而合。
Behind each of his inventions is a story about how it came to him, and Lemelson tells it in the manner of a standup comedian, except that instead of a punch line at the end there is an invention.
在每一项发明的背后，都有一个关于如何灵光一闪的故事。莱梅尔逊会像一位站立喜剧演员一样讲述整个过程，只不过，他的“表演”并不会有什么妙语连珠，而是打造一项发明。

and women love those kinds of things. It had this catchy little punch line, 'Giddy on up and giddy on out,' which is very representative of my sense of humor."

The punch line was that when the flow of new blood stopped, the company almost tanked.
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And not just being a ubiquitous punch line and those occasionally uncomfortably close-to-accurate Sopranos storylines.
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Except that the punch line is that men have put on dresses and make up.
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The punchline of a joke or funny story is its last sentence or phrase, which makes it funny.

妙语
By the study, the author proposed that in an ideal condition, to interpret verbal humor, the procedures of English humor interpretation perhaps consist of five steps: forming a presupposed ending about the punch line when interpreting the set-up part of the joke, coming across an unexpected reply when reading the punch line part, realizing being misled by the speaker and felling more curious about the intentional meaning of the speaker, reinterpreting the joke to derive the implication of the speaker and inferring the attitudes of the speaker.
通过研究,本文作者认为在理想状况下,幽默的理解过程也许由五个步骤组成:通过对幽默铺垫部分的解读产生预期妙语句,妙语句的出现使读者产生意外之感,意识到被幽默讲述者误导而产生对言者意图的更大的好奇心,在好奇心的驱使下重新阅读前文某些部分或者全文以抽取言者的隐含意,最终推导出言者通过讲述这则幽默笑话所要表达的他本人的观点和态度。