This week on our program, we bring you some laughs from old-time American radio shows.

VOA: special.2009.03.09

So I'm going to start in the middle of this: The crowd laughs long and loud.

他们的对话是这样进行的，：,“大家大笑很久“

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Now, on Monday you're going to hear about this novel's confrontation with the idea that art could be saving, that it could somehow be redemptive, but here I think is a hint that it's something that the novel simply laughs at hollowly.

星期一我们将会将到这部小说对,艺术已经被拯救，某种程度已经被救赎这个,观点的对质，但我想提示大家一下,那只是这部小说空洞嘲笑的观点。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Bill jumps. His father laughs and says the boy jumped six and nine-tenths inches.

VOA: special.2009.05.04

And a few seconds later, he says "Mr. Bernstein, you don't expect me to keep my promises, do you?" And Berstein laughs like the little toady that he is and says, "Oh, yes!"

几秒之后他说,伯恩斯丁先生，你不希望我,恪守承诺吧，不是么,伯恩斯丁笑了“

麻省理工公开课 - 电影哲学课程节选

(Laughs). "What kind of resolutions are those?"

VOA: special.2009.12.28

"Oh,usually to lead a healthier lifestyle by eating better food and not drinking so much,so (Laughs)" Jamar Negron,a high school student from New Jersey, has a few resolutions for two thousand ten: "I'm a fencer, so my New Year's resolution is just to become better at fencing.

VOA: special.2009.12.28

It's called bullfighting, in which clowns earn points, prize money and lots of laughs by artfully evading grouchy bulls.

VOA: standard.2010.01.25

Often neighbors take several trips together each year, sharing gasoline costs, home-cooked meals - not to mention laughs and memories.

VOA: standard.2010.03.01

Hey, I can keep a secret. (LAUGHS) Really, it's just like an old scary story.

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(GASPS) (LAUGHS SOFTLY) BELLA. ; And that was the first nightI dreamt of Edward Cullen.

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You should put your seatbelt on. (LAUGHS) You should put your seatbelt on.

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You'd walk up the first day, see your mates wearing a dress, have a couple of laughs and then go and take it seriously so an audience doesn't have to."

VOA: standard.2010.04.08

No, I wasn't. (LAUGHS SOFTLY) Yes, you were.

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(LAUGHS) - Okay, well, tell him, "Thanks."- Okay.

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(LAUGHS) Screaming. I literally repel technology now.

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(LAUGHS SOFTLY) So what, you...

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