That is because they were able to induce such laughter only in the operating room or at the first postoperative visit, not during subsequent test-stimulation sessions.

研究人员建议道。 这是由于对患者进行电刺激诱使发笑的工作仅能在手术期间或术后第一次复查时进行，不能在随后的电测试环节实施。

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Usually such jokes get only polite sympathy laughter at best, and at worst the joke falls completely flat or even offends, either way the presenter is off to a poor start.

通常这种笑话充其量只能得到礼貌性的、出于同情的笑声，而最坏的情况下，这种笑话则完全是无聊的，甚至会冒犯观众。总之，这样的展示一开始就有了坏兆头。

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A Westerner would interpret laughter in such a setting as a sign of either insensitivity4 or, worse, pleasure that the person falling had hurt himself/herself because that person was disliked.

西方人会认为在这种情况下笑是没有同情心，或者更恶劣：是对摔跤受伤者的幸灾乐祸，因为此人不受欢迎。

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"She laughs at the time to come": such laughter reflects an attitude of confident hope in the face of adversity and the unpredictable challenges of life.

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First, Google's speech-recognition technology lets it scan videos for cues such as laughter.

CNN: What makes a YouTube video funny? Google wants to know

Of course I couldn't see the response as I was speaking though I could hear the claps and the laughter but the lighting was such that I couldn't actually see the audience.

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