In fact our admiration for the comically gifted is relatively new and not very well-founded, says Rod Martin, a psychologist at the University of Western Ontario.
西安大略大学的心理学家罗德马丁说:“事实上,我们对喜剧天才的崇拜是相对较新且没有根基的。”
Disfluent fonts, the ones people tend to laugh off, fonts that are comically ugly, they tend to be the best for learning and for memory.
我们想当然的认为越容易看懂就越容易记住。在学习和记忆方面,读起来不流畅的字体或是难看而引人发笑的字体反而是最好的。
As tasks become more specialised and firms occupy ever-smaller market niches, job titles and business categories can sound comically obscure.
当工作变得越来越专业化,而公司们占有着越来越细分的利基市场时,工作抬头和业务类别听上去莫名的晦涩。
There are also variants of the drink that mix the two syrups; these are sometimes referred to as " Zebras", also, more comically refered to as "Tuxedo Mocha".
还有一些变种是用两种巧克力糖浆混合;它们有时被称为“斑马”,也有时会被滑稽地叫作“燕尾服摩卡”。
And he can react to bad news in a comically exaggerated way!
而且他会以夸张搞笑的方式面对坏消息!
On the girl's shoulder sat a little marmoset scratching its head comically.
在女孩的肩膀上坐着一只正在挠头的小猴子。
I remember a warm voice, expressive eyes, and bushy eyebrows that wiggled3 comically at a pun or a joke.
我记得他那温暖的声音、炯炯的眼神、浓密的眉毛——一句双关语、一个笑话便会使他那浓眉滑稽跳动。
The United States actually scored a comically bad 2.038, which brought it all the way down to 94th place — above Saudi Arabia, but below Peru.
美国得分低得可笑,以2.038分一路跌至第94名,排在沙特阿拉伯前面,但位于秘鲁之后。
What made them so comically sinister is that they were always luxurious: in real life, villains' bunkers are claustrophobic places made worse by an atmosphere of paranoia.
这些堡垒永远都是奢华的,所以看上去有种充满喜感的邪恶:在现实生活中,恶棍的地下堡垒是幽闭恐怖的地方,一种偏执狂的气氛加重了它们的阴森感。
Within minutes we left the last human developments behind us, and we rolled for hours that first evening past desert scrub of acacia and gum trees and comically steepled termite hills.
几分钟之内我们就把有人居住的地区抛到了后面,傍晚的几个小时里,我们经过的沙漠中可以看见洋槐和橡胶树丛,还有怪模怪样的尖塔形白蚁树。
Comically, Microsoft's own Windows Phone 7 can't yet select text for cutting and pasting.
真是滑稽,微软自己的WindowsPhone7至今还不能选择文本用于剪切和粘贴。
Comically, Microsoft's own Windows Phone 7 can't yet select text for cutting and pasting.
真是滑稽,微软自己的WindowsPhone7至今还不能选择文本用于剪切和粘贴。
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