Now if you smiled to-- or make three people smile, and these three people-- each one makes three other people smile.

如果你的笑-,感染了三个人，这三个人-,每个人又引起另外三人发笑。

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And his big finding is that you could separate people-- you could separate the question of laughter from the question of a joke or the question of humor.

他有一个重大的发现,你可以区分…,你可以区分什么是笑,什么是玩笑，什么是幽默。

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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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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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When you're in a group doing something terribly aggressive and you are not--you don't feel like you're at risk you might laugh and laughter is a signal to other members of your group as a signal of solidarity and what you're doing together.

当你在群体在做具有强烈攻击性的行为时,你不会觉得自己有危险,你会笑,你笑是向其他群体成员传达一个信号,你们团结一致，共同进退。

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