In fact our admiration for the comically gifted is relatively new and not very well-founded, says Rod Martin, a psychologist at the University of Western Ontario.

西安大略大学的心理学家罗德马丁说：“事实上，我们对喜剧天才的崇拜是相对较新且没有根基的。”

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Disfluent fonts, the ones people tend to laugh off, fonts that are comically ugly, they tend to be the best for learning and for memory.

我们想当然的认为越容易看懂就越容易记住。在学习和记忆方面，读起来不流畅的字体或是难看而引人发笑的字体反而是最好的。

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As tasks become more specialised and firms occupy ever-smaller market niches, job titles and business categories can sound comically obscure.

当工作变得越来越专业化，而公司们占有着越来越细分的利基市场时，工作抬头和业务类别听上去莫名的晦涩。

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One of them staggered around comically as I warmed a glass of the drink in my hands.

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The problem with so much gear, however, was that our packs had grown comically large.

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The men are almost comically similar: white and middle-aged, their growing paunches concealed beneath polo shirts.

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