And by his smile, I knew that sullen hall,-- By his dead smile I knew we stood in Hell.

看着他的笑，我想起了阴沉压抑的礼堂-,看着他的笑，我想起了阴沉压抑的礼堂。

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The core of Socrates' proposal for equal education is presented in a context that he knows to be or suggests will be laughable.

苏格拉底平等教育建议的核心,在文中可见,他知道或暗示那将会被笑的脉络。

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So, if a stranger slips on a banana peel and lands on his butt, I might laugh because I'm not overcome by compassion.

所以，看到陌生人踩蕉皮,摔个屁股着地，我会笑,因为我对他的同情不是很强烈。

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And then of course, the point of the skit is he presses the down button on the elevator and a minute and a half goes by while he's waiting for the elevator to come.

当然，这个滑稽短剧的笑点是,他按下了电梯按钮,花了一分半,等电梯。

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So, he had over a thousand laughter-initiated situations and here are some typical comments that initiated laughter, sometimes uproarious laughter, on the parts of people.

他收集了一千多个引起笑的情景,这里列出一些普遍能引人发笑的话，有些能让某些人轰然大笑。

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When he laughed, was witty, in a merry humor, one could scarce sees his eyes, and by and by, when he was serious and positive, he opened his eyes round.

当他笑时，他是睿智的，带有令人愉快的幽默，都看不见他的眼睛了，不一会儿，他变得严肃和积极了，便圆睁着眼睛。

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These are sort of flailing away at different ideas but another way of doing--an older way is proposed by Plato, who viewed laughter as a form of bonding against a common enemy.

我现在说的都是各种猜想,但从另一个角度看，一个古老的角度,这是由柏拉图提出的，他认为笑是一种巩固感情的形式,对抗共同的敌人。

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A lot of the work is done by Robert Provine who summarizes this in his excellent book Laughter.

很大研究都是Robert，Provine做的,他在一本很好的书《笑》中总结了他的研究。

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This is--what elicited the laughter for Zachary was watching the classic film Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day where Rabbit climbed on a high bunch of shelves and it all came crashing down on him.

让Zachary笑的是,他在看的一部经典电影,《小熊维尼和大风吹》,兔子爬到一个很高的架子上,架子塌下来，砸到它身上。

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