We laugh when there is incongruity between what we expect and what we actually--what actually happens unless the outcome is frightening."

当我们的期望和现实发生的事实,之间出现不一致时，我们就会笑,除非这种不一致引起恐惧”

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It's also-- a lot of laughter isn't caused by incongruity so a lot of times when we laugh there's nothing incongruous in any deep sense about it.

还有…,很多笑不是因为不一致引起的,很多时候我们笑,并不是因为其中有不一致的现象。

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It doesn't explain why we make that loud noise when dealing with incongruity.

它无法解释为什么遇到不一致时,我们会发出这种大声的声音。

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So, why should a non-frightening incongruity cause people to make a distinctive loud noise consisted of staccato segments of one fifteenth of a second each separated by a fifth of a second?

为什么不引起恐惧的不一致性,会让人们发出一种与别不同的声音,而且这种声音是间断的，一节声音持续15分之一秒,两节声音之间也是相隔15分之一秒？

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It's not the case that incongruity causes laughter.

笑不是由不一致引起的。

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