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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So, he had over a thousand laughter-initiated situations and here are some typical comments that initiated laughter, sometimes uproarious laughter, on the parts of people.

他收集了一千多个引起笑的情景,这里列出一些普遍能引人发笑的话，有些能让某些人轰然大笑。

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It's also-- a lot of laughter isn't caused by incongruity so a lot of times when we laugh there's nothing incongruous in any deep sense about it.

还有…,很多笑不是因为不一致引起的,很多时候我们笑,并不是因为其中有不一致的现象。

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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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These are sort of flailing away at different ideas but another way of doing--an older way is proposed by Plato, who viewed laughter as a form of bonding against a common enemy.

我现在说的都是各种猜想,但从另一个角度看，一个古老的角度,这是由柏拉图提出的，他认为笑是一种巩固感情的形式,对抗共同的敌人。

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When you're in a group doing something terribly aggressive and you are not--you don't feel like you're at risk you might laugh and laughter is a signal to other members of your group as a signal of solidarity and what you're doing together.

当你在群体在做具有强烈攻击性的行为时,你不会觉得自己有危险,你会笑,你笑是向其他群体成员传达一个信号,你们团结一致，共同进退。

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This is--what elicited the laughter for Zachary was watching the classic film Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day where Rabbit climbed on a high bunch of shelves and it all came crashing down on him.

让Zachary笑的是,他在看的一部经典电影,《小熊维尼和大风吹》,兔子爬到一个很高的架子上,架子塌下来，砸到它身上。

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