He says bunchy top disease and banana bacterial wilt can both affect entire plantations.

VOA: special.2009.09.21

So, if a stranger slips on a banana peel and lands on his butt, I might laugh because I'm not overcome by compassion.

所以，看到陌生人踩蕉皮,摔个屁股着地，我会笑,因为我对他的同情不是很强烈。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

And this is why the humor-- why the damage is often a certain sort of damage involving things like embarrassment, sex, scatology, a banana peel, pie in the face, your pants fall down or something, where there's no real harm.

这就是为什么幽默-,所涉及的伤害通常都是,涉及尴尬，性，不雅语言，香蕉皮，摔到脸上的派，掉裤子之类的，这些情况没有造成真正伤害。

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Banana bacterial wilt was first reported in Ethiopia in the late nineteen sixties.

VOA: special.2009.09.21

A top banana is the leading person in a comedy show.

VOA: special.2009.11.29

Two separate diseases are destroying banana and plantain crops in Africa.

VOA: special.2009.09.21

The object was shaped like a yellow fruit: the banana.

VOA: special.2009.11.29

Top banana still is used mainly in show business.

VOA: special.2009.11.29

And so on. Why a banana?

VOA: special.2009.11.29

The expression is,top banana.

VOA: special.2009.11.29

The next is second banana.

VOA: special.2009.11.29

You might not like an orange by itself, you might not like a banana by itself, but if you combine different fruits together, you might be able to actually produce something which is consumable by the whole society."

VOA: special.2009.10.02

"Are you liking your banana?." Andy Muscat says his family does its best to support products that help producers.

VOA: standard.2010.03.10