Socrates says he will be drowned in laughter but many other people have taken this dream or this aspiration very seriously.

苏格拉底说自己会被笑死,但更多人很严肃地,看待这个梦想或志向。

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but it is to look at this and see the audience not laughing and not having... It is funny, you know.

但在一边看着观众不笑不动……也是件很有趣的事情。

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It's a smile, a rather dorky smile, but there's a smile.

这就是笑,一个相当呆气的笑,但也仍然是笑

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You know, even some goes pass you on the street and you don't smile ostensibly you don't smile-- there are certain micro-muscles in your face that are moving that actually make you feel better.

即使路人与你擦身而过时，你没笑,表面上你没有笑-,但你面部的细微肌肉,会收缩，让你感觉更好。

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But, in the meantime, what you have is the continual reproduction of that yell, that laugh, that "wow," that "yes," that "that's all right," all those things that they say just to register their existence and their relation with one another.

但同时，你听到看到的只是不断重复的,叫喊，笑，“哇“，“是“，“对极了“,所有这些都只是用来显示他们的存在,和他们之间的关系。

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And this is my colleague, Marianne LaFrance, who is actually not smiling in that picture but she studies smiling and smiling in adults, smiling in children, smiling across cultures, and the different social uses of smiling.

另一位是我的同事，法国人玛丽安，她在照片上没有笑,但她研究微笑，成人的微笑，孩子的微笑，文明的微笑，微笑的不同社会功用。

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Now, if you were listing the parts of the body, you would list the teeth, you would list the lips, you would list the gums, you would list the tongue, but you wouldn't list the smile.

如果要罗列完成这个动作牵涉到的身体部位,你也许会列举牙齿,嘴唇,你会列举牙龈,舌头,但你不会列举出笑

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Other primates do it to some extent and then it's interesting when they do it.

其他灵长类动物也在一定程度上有这种特性,但它们的笑很有意思。

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So, if you smile at somebody, and you just hate their guts but you want to smile at them, it's--unless you're quite gifted it's difficult to fake a really good, really happy smile.

所以，你对某人微笑，你很讨厌他们，但你要对他们微笑，除非你很有天赋,很难去假笑，伪装真正的微笑。

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Children are particularly influenced by the contagiousness of laughter, but just in general, if you hear somebody laughing, like the kids you saw before, it's the sort of thing that could easily make you laugh.

孩子特别容易,受笑声的感染，但普遍来说，如果你听到有人笑，像你们刚才看到的小孩子，这样的事物很容易引你大笑。

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