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(dāng)他們這樣做的時(shí)候，也根本不會(huì)意識(shí)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(guó)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(xiàn)了這一有趣的現(xiàn)象。最近，他的這項(xiàng)研究成果發(fā)表在了《人類天性》(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(rèn)為，用言語(yǔ)向他人敞開心扉的行為是幫助人們建立新關(guān)系，增強(qiáng)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，比如最愛(ài)的食物類型。
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(diào)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(guó)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(rèn)識(shí)。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(qū)別在于，引人發(fā)笑的'頻率和傳達(dá)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(jié)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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