1.intended to be humorous and not meant seriously
1.After the Times obit came out, Craig sent me an e mail with the tongue-in-cheek subject line: "How you and I created modeern civilization. "
在Timesobit发表之后，Craig给我发送了一封电子邮件，半开玩笑式的邮件主题是：你我是怎样共同创造了现代文明的。
2.It's obviously a little bit of tongue in cheek towards NASA, if somebody knows it is an American song, especially if patriotic for America.
这显然是在挖苦nasa，如果有人知道这是一首美国爱国主义歌曲。
3.As for your tongue-in-cheek part, I'd rather watch them compete in hufu than hanfu, at least the girls' legs are more visible.
对于你那讽刺那段﹐我宁愿看他们以胡服比赛了﹐起码女孩子的腿也可以见得更清楚。
4.One lie has even become such a standard, that it's more of a joke than a real lie. I've said it to my son, but always with tongue-in-cheek.
有句谎话甚至被我讲成了笑话，我总是半玩笑半认真的对儿子提起它。
5.The question may be a bit tongue-in-cheek, but it relates to a serious discussion as flood-swollen Yangtze River continues to test the dam.
上面的问题或许有点开玩笑的意味，不过在长江洪水继续考验三峡大坝之际，这个问题却关系到一场严肃的讨论。
6.He was asked, tongue in cheek, if he could think of any place he would rather be.
当有人开玩笑问他是否考虑过一些其他他认为更好的地方。
7.The last comment may have been tongue-in-cheek, but the takeaway thought, he said, was that GM knew its weaknesses as well as anyone else.
他说，虽然最后一句话有些开玩笑的意思，但是言下之意是，通用公司与外界一样深知自己的弱点。
8.Xia zhi xing: be polite. Nobody at Tomorrow Village does no good for you, and do not only say it tongue in cheek.
夏之星：说话客气一点，我们明日乡的任何一个乡民都没有对不起你，不要说风凉话。
9.By April '94 it had a new tongue-in-cheek name: "Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle, " or Yahoo for short.
到了1994年4月，它有了一个新昵称：“另一种非官方层次化数据库”（YetAnotherHierarchicalOfficiousOracle）简称Yahoo。
10.In the case of this image, I wanted to represent New York in a tongue-in-cheek, fanciful way.
在本图中，我希望用一种戏谑、荒诞的方式来表现纽约。