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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Unfortunately, it didn't work very well because people started bickering in his town and the New Harmony became kind of a joke-- it was not a harmonious community.

但不幸的是，这座村落发展得并不顺利,矛盾争执丛生,新和谐村成了笑谈-,因为已经无谓和谐了。

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