The laugh track makes things a lot funnier because people laugh a lot more when they're in groups.

笑声音轨让影视内容更好笑,因为如果有一大群人在笑，人们会更容易笑。

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Most of what people--what made people laugh wasn't in any sense a joke or humorous.

大部份让人笑的原因,并不是玩笑或幽默。

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Wow, John, I got a laugh for a political joke, I'm in big trouble. That better?

噢，John，我讲了个政治笑话大家都笑了，我有麻烦了，这样好些么？

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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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I got interested in this--well, I got interested in this as a developmental psychologist watching my own children laugh and trying to figure out what it is that made them laugh.

我对笑感兴趣…,身为一个长成心理学家,当我看到我孩子笑时，我就对这个议题感兴趣了,我想弄明白是什么令他们笑的。

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I know you don't remember that far back, but in about the second lecture I made a joke of Professor Guttag which, you know, you didn't laugh at, he didn't laugh at, that's okay.

我知道你们可能不记得了，但是在大约是第二节课,我对Guttag开了个玩笑，你们懂得，你们没笑，他也没笑，这没什么。

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