laugh简单

People have been surprised to see evidence that Victorians had fun and could, and did, laugh.

人们惊讶地看到证据表明，维多利亚时代的人也会找乐子，也能笑、也确实笑过。

Have you ever noticed how much children laugh?

你有没有注意到孩子们笑得有多频繁？

Stop laughing: it’s not just cost effective but helps you balance your diet.

别笑：这不仅能节省开支，还能帮助你均衡饮食。

But [despite] some claims to the contrary, laughing probably has little influence on physical fitness.

但尽管有一些相反的说法，笑对身体健康的影响可能微乎其微。

Anyway, the act of laughing probably does produce other types of [physical] feedback that improve an individual's emotional state.

无论如何，笑这一行为很可能确实会产生其他类型的生理反馈，从而改善一个人的情绪状态。

Even Mark Twain, a man who enjoyed a hearty laugh, said that when it came to photographic portraits there could be “nothing more damning than a silly, foolish smile fixed forever”.

就连喜欢开怀大笑的马克·吐温也说过，说到肖像照，“没有什么比一个被永远定格的傻乎乎的笑容更糟糕的了”。

But because hard laughter is difficult to [sustain], a good laugh is unlikely to have [measurable] benefits the way, say, walking or jogging does.

但由于开怀大笑难以持续，痛快地笑一场不太可能像散步或慢跑那样带来可以衡量的益处。

Studies dating back to the 1930s indicate that laughter [relaxes] muscles, decreasing muscle tone for up to 45 minutes after the laugh dies down.

早在20世纪30年代的研究就表明，笑能放松肌肉，在笑声停止后长达45分钟的时间里降低肌肉的紧张度。

It allows us to have perspective on our lives — the ability to not take ourselves too seriously, to laugh at ourselves, to see the bigger picture, and to see that things will work out.

它让我们能够正确看待自己的生活——即不过分看重自己、能自嘲、能顾全大局、能看到事情终将好转的能力。