恶作剧的人

There were said to be too many circles to be the work of a few "hoaxers"(but this assumed that each circle took many hours to make), or that circles appeared in well-watched crops, or that circle creation was accompanied by unearthly noises (when these sounds were played back, even I recognized the nocturnal song of the grasshopper warbler).

他们说，世上庄稼圈太多了，不可能全是一小撮「恶作剧的人」干的（但是这个说法得假定每个圈都要花很多时间才做得出来）。或者，那些圈子会出现在戒备森严的田里。或者，圈圈形成的时候，有人听见了前所未闻的噪音（从那些噪音的录音带上，连我都听得出那是黑斑蝗莺在唱歌）。

Prankster likes pranking, and he always made prank calls to others, and telling that their kins are in danger.

那个顽皮的人喜欢搞恶作剧，他老是给别人打恶作剧电话，然后告诉别人他们的亲戚有危险。

The prankster likes pranking, and he always made prank calls to others, and telling that their kins are in danger.

那个顽皮的人喜欢搞恶作剧，他老是给别人打恶作剧电话，然后告诉别人他们的亲戚有危险。

A prankster dropped thousands of colored plastic balls down the Spanish Steps in Rome last week.

上周，一名恶作剧的人从罗马的西班牙台阶倾倒了无数颗彩色塑胶小球。

A sighting of this puckish little man in leather pants, circular shades pencil moustache and nutty-professor hair i8 as highly prized as a impse of Woody Alien is in Manhattan.

这个视觉目光带有恶作剧的人，穿着皮裤，留着小胡子，一头坚硬的短发，就像是曼哈顿的伍迪·艾伦。

As representatives of Jena's power people, these men had to see the nooses as a silly prank; there was no no practical alternative.

作为代表耶拿的权力的人，这些人曾看到nooses作为一个无聊的恶作剧；不存在，没有实际可行的选择。

We will always know when he is speaking, but one has to be careful because there are practical jokers on the other side, as there are here.

当他说话时，我们总会察觉到的。但是有一点我们必须小心：那边也像这边一样，有喜欢恶作剧的人。

When the pranksters and leg-pullers found that I was easy to fool, every one of them tried his luck with me.

当那些恶作剧和捉弄人的人发觉我易于受骗的时候，他们每个人都想在我身上试试他的运气。

Officials believe they will find all the pranksters.

校方相信他们会把所有搞恶作剧的人抓到的。

In the 1990s Bill Geerhart was an unemployed, not-so aspiring screenwriter in his 30s. To pass the time, he channeled his inner child, 10-year-old Billy, and started writing letters to famous and infamous people and institutions. These letters, written in pencil on elementary school ruled paper, asked funny but relevant questions to politicians, serial killers, movie stars, lobbyists, CEOs, and celebrity lawyers.

恶作剧做大了也会有意想不到的收获，有位Bill Geerhart先生就是恶作剧创作人员中的典范。1994年一心想搞写作的他正无业在家，无聊的人总会有多一点无聊的想法（其实他也可以尝试玩些无聊的人在无聊时玩的无聊游戏），于是他开始召唤内心的童真，虚构了一个小盆友，名字叫Billy，并用一些练习本内页+手写六一体写各种信件寄给有名的、没名的各种各样的人，问一些奇怪的问题请求帮助或者建议。

I'm strongly against the death penalty — it's an eye for an eye.

我不赞成死刑——这是以牙还牙的报复行为。

And to get you the support you need, we're enlisting all elements of our national power: our diplomacy and development, our economic might and our moral suasion, so that you and the rest of our military do not bear the burden of our security alone.

并给你们所须的支援，我们正徵召国家所有各种的力量：我们的外交及发展，我们的经济力量与道德劝说，所以你们与其他军人不须要孤独地负起国家安全的责任。