Yeah,and they always say, 'And they got it?'" A fitting tribute to Gibran who wrote, "In the sweetness of friendship, let there be laughter and joy."

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This was a failure because people could not go near the tickle machine without convulsing in laughter.

这是一个失败的发明,因为人们还没靠近挠痒痒的机器,就已经被它的模样逗笑了

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If there was a bowl of fruit up there as you walked in, it'd be incongruous but people wouldn't shriek with laughter and point to the fruit.

如果你走进教室,看到这里有一碗水果，这也是不一致,但你不会高声大笑地指着水果。

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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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Now, I've talked about laughter on two separate occasions and on each of the occasions when I talked in front of a large group like this somebody came up to me afterwards and said, "But I can."

我之前也有两次提到过笑,第一次,当我在这么一大群人面前讲完后,都会有人上来跟我说，“我可以”

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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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