half-jokingly

副词 adv.
中文释义

英文释义

副词 adv.
  1. With an element of jest, but fundamentally in earnest. not-comparable
    — I wrote a piece, half-jokingly, for The Independent suggesting that it was all part of a cunning plan by ministers to deter people from using the railways. […] I now suspect this was rather closer to the truth than I had thought.

词源

From half- + jokingly.
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