Imagine what it would be like if this were the case.

想象一下【笑】如果是这样的情况将会发生什么。

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He decided to send himself and his students to different places including shopping malls and observe when people laughed and write down what made them laugh.

除了他自己，他还派他的学生,去各种各样的地方，包括购物商场,观察人们在什么时候会笑,并写下让他们笑的原因。

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But, of course, what are we laughing at?

但是，当然，我们在笑什么呢？

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But what is a smile?

但是笑究竟是什么

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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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I got interested in this--well, I got interested in this as a developmental psychologist watching my own children laugh and trying to figure out what it is that made them laugh.

我对笑感兴趣…,身为一个长成心理学家,当我看到我孩子笑时，我就对这个议题感兴趣了,我想弄明白是什么令他们笑的。

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So, what's it for? What does it do?

那么笑到底有什么用？

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We don't know what makes us laugh.

我们不知道是什么引起我们笑。

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This is what--this is where the humor for that baby comes in, which is you couldn't predict when the sound was coming and some aspect of that was what made it so funny then, what elicited the laughter.

这就是…,为什么那些婴儿那么好笑，因为你猜不到他们什么时候会笑,因此我们才觉得好笑，引起我们大笑。

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