"as quick with a joke as john is,apparently he didn't joke with his wife about cancer"如何翻译？

事情发生如此突然且具有戏剧性，很显然，他从来不跟他妻子拿癌症的开玩笑 。

as ........as ,和.............一样。John这个名字来自圣经，算是一个俗语吧，引用的，John是雷霆之子，as quick as John is,有点像迅雷不及掩耳，形容快，with a joke,做伴随状语。