A stranger with a flair for cocktail party descriptive prose might have commented that the room, at a quick glance, looked as if it had once been tenanted by two struggling twelve-year-old lawyers or researchists.

一个鸡尾酒派对的调酒师,也能看一眼就对这件房子作出评论，他会看得出房间曾被两个奋斗的,12岁的律师或研究员租过。

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And this is the first descriptive step to developing a theory of laughter.

这是第一个描述性的步骤,来建立笑的理论。

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