We laugh when there is incongruity between what we expect and what we actually--what actually happens unless the outcome is frightening."

当我们的期望和现实发生的事实,之间出现不一致时，我们就会笑,除非这种不一致引起恐惧”

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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。

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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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Just like we don't deny, we all believe, that there are smiles.

正如我们不否认,笑的存在

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Let me ask you a question first about John Barth and the stories that I asked you to read. Which of them was your favorite? Some cackling I hear None of them?Which of them was your favorite?

我先来问你们一个关于约翰·巴斯和我让你们读的,故事的问题，你们最喜欢哪个故事，我听到一些咯咯笑的声音,都不喜欢吗，你们最喜欢哪个故事啊？

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It's not the case that incongruity causes laughter.

笑不是由不一致引起的。

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