| 词汇 | example_english_laughter |
| 释义 | Examples of laughterThese examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. The laughter produced by this reading may not be merely the laughter of aggression, but also the laughter of assertion. Such uses, though, were characteristically marked as different from the others by hesitation and laughter, especially among the four-year-olds. Nevertheless, we cannot read this restorative laughter as a return to some pure game. Human laughter would seem to require the obliteration of a something or somebody, not merely to be derided but to be laughed out of existence. Why does music move us to tears or laughter? The positive affect scale ranged from positive interest to squeals of laughter. Activities disrupted very passive situations, prompted people into action, into relating with each other, producing laughter, silliness and even pride. Although most laughter results from physical contact such as tickling, it also occurs during chasing play. In other words, unlike the norm for humans, chimpanzees breathe in and out as they produce a breathy, panting laughter. As in speech, humans modulate an outward breath to produce the sounds of laughter. The characteristics of laughter in chimpanzees point to a critical constraint on the evolution of speech and language in the great apes. Essential insights come from the comparative analysis of laughter. She judged it 'absolutely impossible: there were six different types of laughter in a row', but nevertheless did what she could. The strength of the work lies in historically reconstructing the gestural languages of laughter and weeping as conventional stage business. However, her opposition is embedded in laughter, and we can see the other two girls disattending to her objection. With neither patients nor family members present, laughter erupted, dispelling the tension, and creating an unexpected and welcome sense of relief. The pleasure of laughter is multiplied when shared. Their lightness and laughter drew others like a mag net. They also suggest that speech rate and laughter can have an influence on vowel devoicing. She's gotta have periods, she's gotta bear children, she's gotta cook, she's gotta clean (laughter). Both affiliative and disaffiliative laughter may be converted to their opposites. Ultimately, however, the chapter suggests a function of laughter beyond expressing amusement: affiliation with co-participants in social interaction. In twoparty interactions, however, he claims that the laughable-producing speaker must laugh first if shared laughter, and the affiliation it promotes, is to occur (101). At line 13 the caller says anintey: ' 'no: ' ' with laughter. Frequent comorbidity of crying and laughter suggests related brain mechanisms for the two acts. Initially, their sounds are basic cries, but gradually cooing, laughter and then babbling can be identified. The available evidence suggests, however, that where performers tried overtly patriotic material there was little laughter in response. The teasing and laughter goes on in front of this child. Unlike the chopped exhalations of human laughter, chimpanzee utterances have only one sound produced per inward and outward breath. In addition, the positive effects of laughter and humor at work and in general are introduced. A young woman's laugh fills the darkness of the space, joined by a second woman's laughter until both abruptly stop. Merchants may receive many comforts, but tend to be very guarded in their friendships, and not prone to laughter or gaiety. The age of onset of contagious laughter is unknown. They had, as it were, been complacently dressing themselves in each other's cast-off clothing, until, looking round the room, they erupted in laughter. There were howls of laughter from the rest of the class. The result was a total explosion of laughter and denial. What is intended to be a sombre expression may well provoke laughter among readers. There are often moments and occasionally entire essays where the student, amused or moved and communicating her feelings, moves me to laughter or tears. In adults, most laughter seems to punctuate speech, for example, by occurring after a spoken phrase. Thus, crying and laughter (as well as other communicative modalities, including visual, olfactory, and tactile modalities) may together contribute to the infant - caregiver relationship. The panting sounds of chimpanzee laughter later came to symbolize ("ritualize") the labored panting of the physical play even in the absence of physical exertion. Laughter at pain was understood as a defensive use of laughter to dismiss the impact of childhood experiences of vulnerability. The midline frontolimbic cortex and the evolution of crying and laughter. The presence or absence of fellow-feeling for varying responses to humorous situations is the basis for our judgements about the propriety of degrees of laughter. Her force of personality, optimistic view of life, and also her warm laughter, will long remain in the memory of all her friends. The contagiousness of laughter is better known, and is the basis for the notorious laugh tracks on television situation comedies. Crying is often performed by solitary infants, in contrast to laughter, which is seldom produced outside of social settings. Positive affect was coded if children exhibited any overt smiles or laughter during the observation. They could switch between laughter and tears with ease, conviction, and professionalism. The aim of this book is one of documenting symptoms, and not of mapping the internal states associated with laughter and weeping. We rolled around on the floor with laughter. Caught by surprise, a crowd of spectators burst into laughter. Just as fear can be replaced by laughter, confidence can give way to doubt, and vulnerability can be turned into power. The f ocus of this ar ticle is limited to the functions of humor and laughter in the setting. Remembering jokes and humorous anecdotes provokes a lot of laughter. Local lore, shared stories, inside jokes, knowing laughter. All of the participants laugh at the joke, but the basis for their shared laughter is ambiguous at best. Marriage was a destiny which, in this equation, ®gured above all as dismal: as the end of laughter and dreams. Here the important 'spring of laughter' - a wonderful invention: how else would a smile work? My two children (aged 5 and 8, and literalists) went into gales of laughter at his "inappropriate" response. Epileptic seizures may drive either laughter or crying by producing the emotionless expressive act or secondarily by producing the associated emotional state. What laughter there is has become exclusively 'realistic', that is, cruel and coarse. We really enjoyed the process, really mucked in [laughter]. Laughter appeared to hold great significance for him. Laughter at painful anecdotes was considered an indicator of such a stance. However, the sequence takes place in an inherently humorous framework, accompanied by laughter, and may be ironic. All physical object concepts are expressed by nouns, but not all nouns express physical object concepts (consider earthquake, concert, place, redness, laughter, justice). The cry of the raven is associated with light whereas the cry of the loon is associated with laughter. All participants laugh at the joke, but the basis for their laughter is ambiguous. The function of these activities was to identify and purge potentially disruptive forces from the collective social body through public humiliation and laughter. The insights and truths about the human condition are in the laughter, not outside and separated from it. The shrieks of laughter of the young men were hardly 'ambivalent', hardly 'asserting and denying', 'triumphant and deriding'. A totally hilarious number full of expletives thrown out in a monologue by an army general had the audience in stitches of laughter. Using puppets, special effects, live music, and slapstick humour, the drama creates in its 'family audience' both fear and laughter. The caller ends her laughter first, however, and then produces well in a tone that suggests mock indignation. Extended laughter and repetitions can only go so far, but the production of new laughables by participants may be drawn out at some length. While laughter signals some appreciation of such utterances, however, it does not in itself agree with them. The first chapter gives a general survey of the research, which has often focused on the physicality of laughter and its relation to humor. On the whole, if you want to become a classic, beware of laughter. Many different forms of exchange were evident, such as the giving of gifts, sharing social activities, sharing secrets and laughter. I observed children entering the courtyard and saw their faces transform from angst to laughter. Jokes and laughter are frequent as is the rough bossing of kitchen work. The squalling of infants and laughter of children punctuate the ritual of recognition and respect. He would also switch spontaneously, or with minor provocation, from anger to giddiness and inappropriate laughter. Although a powerful probe into the mechanisms of vocal production, laughter also provides one of the best cases of how a specific human vocalization evolved. A few of the corporate employees proposed more laughter, a prescription that was echoed by some older participants. Other comments about the fear of gossip if they did not participate provoked laughter and agreement. Now in variety theatre, psychological depth and empathy are rarely important: in fact, empathy can destroy the possibility of laughter. Indeed, it is her rejoinder in line 7 that seems to cause the others to burst into laughter. Bergsonian laughter is generated by the confusion between a baby and a parcel. I came back and said, this is trivial; the students burst into laughter. Yumi acknowledges that evaluation with laughter in line 18. Burling finds vestiges of primate gesture-calls in human facial expressions, gesticulation, cries and laughter, and the intonation of speech and tone of voice. Jokes, which often function as "understanding tests," may lead to laughter at a participant who doesn't get them, or at an inadequate joke teller. Until thefinaldecades of the eighteenth century, it was the appropriateness not the authenticity of such pursuits that called down laughter, shock, or wonder. The audience's response was stifled laughter; the director's intentions were surely otherwise. The voice responds with whimpering - which mutates into breathy laughter. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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