plaisanter

Dans les pays d'humeur légère, on plaisanta le phénomène, mais les pays graves et pratiques, l'Angleterre, l'Amérique, l'Allemagne, s'en préoccupèrent vivement.
In lighthearted countries, people joked about this phenomenon, but such serious, practical countries as England, America, and Germany were deeply concerned.
« N'autorisez pas cet homme à être l'animateur », plaisanta le PDG. Le célèbre humoriste engagé pour présenter éclata de rire.
"Do not allow this man to host," the CEO joked. The famous comedian hired to host laughed.
Lors de la première conférence des socialistes contre la guerre, célébrée dans la petite localité suisse de Zimmerwald, en 1915, Lénine plaisanta en déclarant que l’on pouvait mettre tous les internationalistes du monde dans deux voitures.
At the first conference of anti-war socialists held in the small Swiss village of Zimmerwald in 1915, Lenin joked that you could put all the internationalists in the world into two stagecoaches.
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