It's hard not to get caught up in this funny story. John Bevis tells a lot of tales this time of year when life slows down.

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So it turns out whoever thought of this was either being funny or just not creative that day.

所以结果是，那个时候无论是谁想出的这个，要么是可笑的,要么是没创造性的。

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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。

街头表演很有趣 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

Right.? I'm going to set up a variable to say, none what's the answer I want to return, is it there or not. Initially it's got that funny value none.

看我要找的答案在不在数组里面，初始化为,然后建立一个索引。

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But, the thing, it becomes less and less funny and not at all.

但这件事情,渐渐不那么好笑,最后沦为空谈

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

It's when it's actually not funny to the audience around,

有时候对观众来说并不好笑，

街头表演很有趣 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人