托福閱讀素材歸納

　　A great way to get to know someone better is to say something that makes them laugh.

　　想要更好地了解別人，一個(gè)好辦法就是說(shuō)些能讓他們發(fā)笑的事。

　　Sharing a few good giggles and chuckles makes people more willing to tell others something personal about themselves, without even necessarily being aware that they are doing so, suggests new research.

　　新研究顯示，分享一些好笑的事會(huì )讓人更樂(lè )意告訴別人自己的私事，甚至當他們這樣做的時(shí)候，也根本不會(huì )意識到這一點(diǎn)。

　　Alan Gray of University College London discovered the tidbit in a new study recently published in the journal Human Nature.

　　英國倫敦大學(xué)學(xué)院(University College London)的艾倫格雷(Alan Gray)在研究中發(fā)現了這一有趣的現象。最近，他的這項研究成果發(fā)表在了《人類(lèi)天性》(Human Nature)雜志上。

　　According to Gray, the act of verbally opening up to someone is a crucial building block that helps to form new relationships and intensify social bonds.

　　格雷認為，用言語(yǔ)向他人敞開(kāi)心扉的行為是幫助人們建立新關(guān)系，增強人與人之間社會(huì )聯(lián)系的重要基本要素。

　　Such self-disclosure can be of a highly sensitive nature — like sharing one’s religious convictions or personal fears — or a superficial tidbit such as one’s favorite type of food.

　　自我表露的過(guò)程具有高度敏感性——好比分享宗教信仰或者害怕之物——或者只是一個(gè)流于表面的趣聞，比如最?lèi)?ài)的食物類(lèi)型。

　　To investigate the role and influence of laughter in this disclosure process, Gray and his colleagues gathered 112 students from Oxford University in England, into groups of four.

　　為了調查笑聲在自我表露過(guò)程中扮演的角色和產(chǎn)生的影響，格雷和他的同事從英國牛津大學(xué)(Oxford University)召集了112個(gè)學(xué)生，并把他們分為四組。

　　The students did not know one another. The groups watched a 10-minute video together, without chatting to one another.

　　學(xué)生們彼此都不認識。每組會(huì )坐在一起看一個(gè)10分鐘的視頻，期間并無(wú)交談。

　　The videos differed in the amount of laughter they invoked, and the amount of positive feelings or emotions they elicited.

　　視頻的區別在于，引人發(fā)笑的'頻率和傳達積極情緒或情感的效力各有不同。

　　One featured a stand-up comedy routine by Michael McIntyre, another a straightforward golf instruction video, and the third a pleasant nature excerpt from the “Jungles” episode of the BBC’s Planet Earth series.

　　一個(gè)視頻是邁克爾麥金太爾(Michael McIntyre)的單人喜劇秀，一個(gè)是簡(jiǎn)短的高爾夫教學(xué)片，第三個(gè)是從《BBC行星地球系列》(BBC’s Planet Earth series)“叢林”(Jungles)一集里節選的一個(gè)令人愉悅的自然片段。

　　The levels of laughter and the participants’ emotional state after watching the video was th

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