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Analysts have had their go at humor, and I have read some of this interpretative literature, but without being greatly instructe
Analysts have had their go at humor, and I have read some of this interpretative literature, but without being greatly instructe
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Analysts have had their go at humor, and I have read some of this interpretative literature, but without being greatly instructed. Humor can be dissected, as a frog can, but the thing dies in the process and the innards are discouraging to any but the pure scientific mind.
In a newsreel theatre the other day, I saw a picture of a man who had developed the soap bubble to a higher point than it had never before reached. He had became the ace soap bubble blower of America, had perfected the business of blowing bubbles, refined it, doubled it, squared it, and had even worked himself up into a convenient lather. The effect was not pretty. Some of the bubbles were too big to be beautiful, and the blower was always jumping into them or out of them, or playing some sort of unattractive trick with them. It was, if anything, a rather repulsive sight. Humor is a little like that; it won’t stand much blowing up, and it won’t stand much poking, it has a certain fragility, an evasiveness, which one had best respect. Essentially, it is a complete mystery. A human frame convulsed with laughter, and the laughter becoming hysterical and uncontrollable, is as far out of balance as one shaken with the hiccoughs or in the throes of sneezing fit.
One of the things commonly said about humorists is that they are really very sad people—clowns with a breaking heart. There is some truth in it, but it is badly stated. It would be more accurate, I think, to say that there is a deep vein of melancholy running through everyone’s life and that the humorist, perhaps more sensible of it than some others, compensates for it actively and positively. Humorists fatten on trouble. They have always made trouble pay. They struggle along with a good will and endure pain cheerfully, knowing how well it will serve them in the sweet by and by. You find them wrestling with foreign languages, fighting folding ironing boards and swollen drainpipes, suffering the terrible discomfort of tight boots(or as Josh Billing wittily called them, "tite" boots). They pour out their sorrows profitably, in a form that is not quite fiction nor quite fact. Beneath the sparkling surface of these dilemmas flows the strong tide of human woe.
The word "melancholy" in paragraph 3 probably means______.
选项
A、joy
B、sadness
C、hysteria
D、exhilaration
答案
B
解析
从文中第三段“One of the things commonly said about humorists is that they are really very sad people--clowns with a breaking heart.There is some truth in it,but it is badly stated.It would be more accurate,I think,to say that there is a deep vein of melan-choly running through everyone’s life and that the humorist,perhaps more sensible of it than some others,compensates for it actively and positively.”可知,关于幽默家,人们最常说的一句话就是,他们实际上都是些非常悲哀的人物——伤透了心的小丑。这话不无道理,只是表述方法太糟。我以为,更恰当的一种说法应该是,每个人的生活里都有一股深深的忧郁在流淌,而幽默家或许比其他人对此更为敏感,他们能活泼、积极地为它做出补偿。由此推断,melancholy应该是“悲伤”之意。因此B项为正确答案。
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