Hour after hour the same sound.

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The rim shot after a comic remark is an attempt to simulate--sort of a pre-technological attempt to simulate the sound of laughter.

讲完笑话，紧接着一阵鼓声,也是为了引起…,引起观众大笑的一种原始手段。

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And things we've been repeating year after year after year, because they sound so reasonable, suddenly sound unreasonable when some of you point out some aspect of it that you didn't follow.

我们年复一年地重复着那些,听起来天经地义的知识,突然会变得苍白无力,就因为你们中有人指出了,一些你没理解的问题

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