喜樂美語
  1. 1nB2/ˈlæftər/ · /ˈlɑːftə/笑聲；歡笑

    The act of laughing, or the sound that people make when they laugh. You use it for laughing in general, not for one single laugh.

    示範例句 · Example

    Laughter came from the classroom next door, so we knew the play had started.

    逐字笑聲從隔壁的教室傳過來，所以我們知道那齣戲已經開始了。

    laughter 可以想成「笑離開了人、變成空氣裡的東西」，所以英文把它當成像水、像空氣一樣的不可數名詞：沒有 a laughter，也沒有 laughters。這個畫面也解釋了它的固定說法——笑聲會充滿一個空間（full of laughter）、會從某處傳過來（laughter coming from the next room），也會慢慢退下去（die down）。要講「一次的笑」，英文用另一個字 a laugh。

    常見搭配

    • burst into laughter

      突然大笑出來

      to suddenly start laughing

      Flora burst into laughter when Sam put the empty bowl on his head.

    • roar with laughter

      哄然大笑

      to laugh very loudly

      The whole audience roared with laughter at the clown's enormous shoes.

    • shriek with laughter

      尖聲大笑

      to laugh loudly in a high voice

      The children shrieked with laughter as the puppy chased its own tail.

    • shake with laughter

      笑到發抖

      to laugh so much that your body shakes

      They were shaking with laughter and could not even finish the sentence.

    • a burst of laughter

      一陣笑聲

      a short, sudden sound of people laughing

      There was a burst of laughter when he appeared in his sister's woolly hat.

    • peals of laughter

      一陣陣的大笑

      a lot of loud laughter, one wave after another

      The class collapsed in peals of laughter at the teacher's drawing of a horse.

    • the laughter dies down

      笑聲慢慢平息

      the laughing slowly becomes quieter and stops

      Ren waited for the laughter to die down before he read the next line.

    • join in the laughter

      跟著一起笑

      to start laughing together with other people

      At first Mei looked embarrassed, then she joined in the laughter too.

    意思相近

    gigglingchucklinghilaritymirthamusement

    意思相反

    silencetearssobbing

core核心畫面

Think of a room full of sound after someone tells a joke — not one person's single 'ha', but the whole wave of it, filling the space and then dying down. That is why laughter has no plural and no 'a': it names laughing as a substance, something a room can be full of, something that can burst out, spread, or fade.

可以想成：有人講完笑話，整個房間的聲音湧上來——不是某個人「哈」的那一聲，而是那一整片、把空間填滿再慢慢退掉的東西。這也就是為什麼 laughter 不加 a、不加複數：它把「笑」當成一團可以充滿房間、可以爆開、可以擴散開來的東西在講。要指單獨一聲笑，英文用的是 a laugh。

容易混在一起的字在訂閱裡。容易混在一起的字需要訂閱帳號。

同家族的字

意思相近

gigglingchucklinghilaritymirthamusement

意思相反

silencetearssobbing

原始詞典資料4 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

Laughtername

  • 1

    A surname.

laughternoun/ˈlɑːftə/

  • 1

    The sound of laughing, produced by air so expelled; any similar sound.

    • Their loud laughter betrayed their presence.
    • There was some laughter, and Roddle was left free to expand his ideas on the periodic visits of cowboys to the town.
  • 2

    A movement (usually involuntary) of the muscles of the laughing face, particularly of the lips, and of the whole body, 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.

    • The act of laughter, which is caused by a sweet contraction of the muscles of the face, and a pleasant agitation of the vocal organs, is not merely, or totally within the jurisdiction of ourselves.
    • Archly the maiden smiled, and with eyes overrunning with laughter.
  • 3

    archaicA reason for merriment.

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