Laughter
['lɑːftə] or ['læftɚ]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) the activity of laughing; the manifestation of joy or mirth or scorn; 'he enjoyed the laughter of the crowd'.
手打:特伦斯--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(v. i.) A movement (usually involuntary) of the muscles of the face, particularly of the lips, with a peculiar expression of the eyes, indicating merriment, satisfaction, or derision, and usually attended by a sonorous and interrupted expulsion of air from the lungs. See Laugh, v. i.
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同義詞及近義詞：
n. Laughing, laugh.
整理:莉莲
娱乐性解釋/意思：
n. An interior convulsion producing a distortion of the features and accompanied by inarticulate noises. It is infectious and though intermittent incurable. Liability to attacks of laughter is one of the characteristics distinguishing man from the animals— these being not only inaccessible to the provocation of his example but impregnable to the microbes having original jurisdiction in bestowal of the disease. Whether laughter could be imparted to animals by inoculation from the human patient is a question that has not been answered by experimentation. Dr. Meir Witchell holds that the infectious character of laughter is due to the instantaneous fermentation of sputa diffused in a spray. From this peculiarity he names the disorder Convulsio spargens.
布伦达編輯
例句/造句/用法:
- The Germans were doubled up with laughter, hearing his strange droll words, his droll phrases of dialect. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- But they could not really talk, because of the glassy ravel of women's excited, cold laughter and running voices. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- It seemed to me that he was making desperate efforts to restrain a convulsive attack of laughter. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- De Bracy was the first to break silence by an uncontrollable fit of laughter, wherein he was joined, though with more moderation, by the Templar. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- And then, from unseen lips, a cruel and mocking peal of laughter rang through the desolate place. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星戰神.
- The young girls of Nazareth still collect about it by the dozen and keep up a riotous laughter and sky-larking. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- He could hear laughter in the upper rooms. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- She answered it with a second laugh, and laughter well became her youth, her roses, her dimples, her bright eyes. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- I was a little startled at the nature of the child's amusement, but the father's laughter made me think that perhaps he was joking. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
- He who sat near Raymond was telling a story, which convulsed the rest with laughter. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- The room rang with shouts of laughter. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- His blue, keen eyes were lit up with laughter, his ruddy face, with its sharp fair hair, was full of satisfaction, and glowing with life. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- He was quivering with silent laughter. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- Robert Jordan heard a quick, control-breaking sniff of laughter from the girl, Maria, who was standing behind him. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- Nor should our citizens be given to excess of laughter--'Such violent delights' are followed by a violent re-action. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
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