Humour

1.Little girl: 'Mother, may I have a nickel for the old man who is outside crying?'Mother: 'Yes, dear. But what is the old man crying about?'Little girl: 'Ice cream cooes, ten cents.'2. Kind neighbor(to a little boy eating an apple): 'Look out for the worms, sonny.'Willie: 'When I eat an apple, the worms have to look out for themselves,

Jokes and Humour

Doctor:Please open your mouth,madam.Lady:Thank you very much,doctor.Doctor:Why do you thank me?Lady:Because my husband always asked me to shut up.医生:请张开嘴,夫人。女士:谢谢你,医生。医生:你为何要感谢我?女士:因为我的丈夫总是让我闭嘴。

A study of aqueous humour proteins in patients of primary open angle glaucoma

Aims: To investigate the changes in the protein composition of aqueous humour in primary open angle glaucoma patients and non-glaucomatous subjects. Patients and Methods: Case control study was conducted at a university hospital to compare the protein profile of aqueous humour obtained from patients of primary open angle glaucoma with those of non glaucomatous subjects. Protein concentration of the aqueous humour samples collected from both glaucomatous and non-glaucomatous patients at the time of surgery was estimated by the Bradford protein assay method. Sodium dodecylsulfate polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis of the samples was also performed. Results: Geometric mean of protein concentration of the samples was 55.73 mg/dl (range: 31-72) in the test group and 46.46 mg/dl (range: 27-65) in the control group and a statistically significant (p ≤= 0.001) difference in protein concentration of aqueous humour between the two groups was observed. Electrophoretic study revealed differences in the aqueous protein composition of the two groups. The glaucomatous group exhibited protein bands of 10 kDa, 20 kDa, 30 kDa, 50 kDa, 60 kDa, 70 kDa, and 90 kDa while the control subjects demonstrated bands of 6 kDa, 10 kDa, 30 kDa, 70 kDa, 90 kDa. Interestingly, almost all the proteins detected in this study corresponded to the molecular weights of heat shock proteins. Conclusions: Primary open angle glaucoma patients differed in protein compositions and had higher concentration of aqueous humour proteins than non glaucomatous patients.

On Verbal Humour from Semantic and Rhetorical Perspectives in American Sitcom Friends

Verbal humor in the province of semantics and rhetorics was focused on and the excerpts in American sitcom Friends was taken as its research object.The famous classic theory: the semantic script theory,was given a sketch outline accompanying examples to state how SSTH works in analysing the verbal humor.Moreover,the employment of different rhetoric skills which elicit humourous effects in a powerful way were appreciated in detail.

Humour in Surrealist Theatre

Surrealist playwrights of the twentieth century use black humour in order to express their discontent towards the society in which they live.Parody of everyday life is a way of reaction against the extensive lifestyle.The actions,the choices and the situations,in which the characters of the surrealist dramas are involved,are comic and grotesque.Surrealist dramas reject the rules of the Western theatre;the lack of plot,the absurd,the misunderstanding,the use of poetic symbols,the parody of bourgeois life,the unexpected reactions and the unreasonable behaviour of the characters are some of the factors that cause laughter and surprise the audience.In this paper we will try to reveal the humour that emerges through the surrealist plays of AndréBreton,Philippe Soupault,Louis Aragon and Roger Vitrac.We will also attempt to highlight the key points through which surrealism in theatre uses black humour in an effort to cover the deep melancholy and pessimistic mood of surrealist dramatists.The questions arising are;in which ways is humour a way of revolution?How can humour include dreams,ingenuity and fantasy?

Humour

There’d been a long dry season,and there wasn’t enough hay to keep the cowsfed,so Gunister and one of his friends decided to go into the hay merchandising business. They got a truck and drove to another state,where they bought hay for three dollars a bale.Then they broughtit home and sold it for $2.50 a bale.

Humour

For more than an hour, a little guy sat at a bar staring into his glass. Suddenly a burly truck driver sat down next to him, grabbed the guy’s drink and gulped it down. The poor little fellow burst into tears. 'Oh, come on, pal,' the trucker said. 'I was just joking. Here, I’’ll buy you another.'

A Humour

The slgn on the door of the photo laboratory reads:“One-Hour Developing andPrinting(一小时冲印)”.As I handed my roll of film(胶卷)to the woman behind

Humour

A couple took their three-month-old son to the movies withthem. On the way in, the usher (引座员) said they’d have to leaveif the baby cried. 'But we’ll refund (归还) your money' he added. After watching the movie for a half-hour, the husband turned tohis wife. 'Well, what do you think?' he asked.

Humour

1.Minnie, *a longtime client(老主顾)at my beauty salon, was about tocelebrate her 100th birthday, and I had promised her complimentary(免费)hairservices when she reached the century mark. I was delighted when she came into collect her gift. As I prepared her permanent wave, we discussed the fact that she wasexactly twice my age. Minnie was silent for a moment and then said, 'There’sonly one thing that concerns me. Whatever will I do when you get too old

Humour

The following discussion took place between my hus-band and nine-year-old son: 'It’s not fair, Dad. Mom wants me to make my bed,but I don’t know how.' 'It’s time you learned. Where are your clean sheets?' 'I don’t know.'

humour词义漫谈

humour 是英语常见词之一,通常表示幽默、诙谐。它在英语中是外来语,来自拉丁文 humor.本义是“温度、液体”,以后随着人类社会的发展,语言日益丰富多彩,humour 的词义也慢慢增多了。下面来谈谈 humour 的一些常见意思。1.humour 作“幽默.诙谐“解The English have a wonderful sense of humour.

Enjoy Laughing Together: Politeness, Humour and Gender in the Workplace

The purpose of this essay is to study politeness in the workplace through analyzing humorous discourse related to different gender in kitchen setting. The small scale study employs a more ethnographic methodology, namely, recording spontaneous and natural spoken conversation from authentic workplace interaction with the permission of the head chef. Cell-phone is used to record discourse under most circumstances since it is hard to be noticed. Then discourse analyze provides data making it possible to explore some of the diverse functions of humour as a form of politeness and to explain how gender identity is dynamically conducted, maintained, challenged and subverted in different humorous discourse from the CofP perspective. Widely cited features of feminine and masculine interactional styles have been applied for the compare and contrast in discussion. Even though some trends are suggested at the end of the discussion, we could not forget politeness, humour and gender are complicated issues requiring more in-depth context-based ethnographic studies.

Using Humour in English Language Teaching

Recently, humour is becoming increasingly popular in English language teaching (ELT). It could highly motivate students'interest in language learning and expand their background knowledge. Whether a teacher is humourous or not makes a significant difference to ELT. However, employing humour in ELT also has difficulties.

Subtitle Translation of Humour in British TV Sitcoms

This thesis explores the translation of three categories of British humour—universal, cultural and linguistic humour in the light of GTVH(General Theory of Verbal Humour) and Relevance Theory. GTVH benefits the study of humour translation by providing an analytical framework of six Knowledge Resources which include Language(LA), Narrative Strategy(NS), Target(TA), Situation(SI), Logical Mechanism(LM) and Script Opposition(SO). The hierarchy of Knowledge Resources is used to make an analysis of the internal structure of humour and Relevance theory functions as a translation theory to check whether the translation is appropriate to achieve optimal relevance. Taking the translation examples from British TV sitcoms"Yes, Prime Minister"and"Little Britain",the thesis probes into the most important Knowledge Resources in these three kinds of humour respectively, analyzes the loss and gain of humour reproduction in fansubbers' translation and makes a few adjustments to some inappropriate translation versions to"achieve the maximization of relevance".

On the Subtitle Translation Strategies of Humour and Satire

This paper makes a comparison between English and Chinese humour and satire in subtitle translation and points outsome problems from both similar and distinctive perspectives by adopting three strategies—assimilation and dissimilation, teleolo-gy, and functional equivalence. These three strategies are the most commonly seen and used in translation works, and are of signifi-cant value in helping people to understand translated TV subtitles and to promote cross-cultural communication.