万花筒 2010-05-11&05-12 世界笑声日

It's like a spring cleaning for the mind,body and spirit. We all have to celebrate today. It is the official day of laughter. And around the world, there are at least 105 celebrations that I know of,Vienna,Switzerland,Hong Kong,Malaysia,the United States,Canada where people are gathering¹ for an hour of just pure laughter. Can you guys do it there?

-Yeah,of course,we laugh all of the time. For all of our reasons,perhaps. But what is it about the active laughter that makes us such a healthy thing to do?

-Well,we all know from kids,it just makes you feel good,there are tremendous studies with compelling researches around the world. Dr.Burke, Dr.Tan,Paul McGhee,Henslin ,they are doing incredible studies to show the connection that our laughter has to the body. There are incredible physiological² reactions,the study just was released this week that talks about how it can stimulate³ appetite, particularly in people who are living with the illness of depression, who have lost the will to eat, it can also really exercise the cardio and pulmonary parts of the body. But their studies that show about the hormonal⁴ reaction, it helps suppress bad hormones⁵ and helps elevate good hormones and allergy⁶ suffers. After laughing and watching comedy, allergy suffers actually experienced less allergy symptoms.

And so today is the day where we just reach out across the world and say to everybody. Let's get out and laugh on ,you know, we schedule time for everything, for Facebook,for Twitter, you know they take the dry cleaning but how many times do we gather our family around and say you know,let's just share a laugh and what's funny is I can hear the laugh that’s on in my earpiece and I actually can tell you whose laugh that is,who is laughing. There are some great people in the field ,Dr.Madan Kataria, Dr.Steve Rosen,people who really advocate for laughter around the world.And as laughing is going,I can actually tell you who is laughing.

I know，all right, Saranne Rothbery, thanks so much, we all laugh today, we all deserve a bit of giggle⁷, a bit of laugh, so it’s all good for us.
 

1 gathering   

n.集会，聚会，聚集

参考例句：

• He called on Mr. White to speak at the gathering.他请怀特先生在集会上讲话。
• He is on the wing gathering material for his novels.他正忙于为他的小说收集资料。

2 physiological   

adj.生理学的，生理学上的

参考例句：

• He bought a physiological book.他买了一本生理学方面的书。
• Every individual has a physiological requirement for each nutrient.每个人对每种营养成分都有一种生理上的需要。

3 stimulate   

vt.刺激，使兴奋；激励，使…振奋

参考例句：

• Your encouragement will stimulate me to further efforts.你的鼓励会激发我进一步努力。
• Success will stimulate the people for fresh efforts.成功能鼓舞人们去作新的努力。

4 hormonal   

adj.激素的

参考例句：

• Some viral diseases are more severe during pregnancy, probably tecause of hormonal changes. 有些病毒病在妊娠期间比较严重，可能是由于激素变化引起的。
• She underwent surgical intervention and a subsequent short period of hormonal therapy. 他接受外科手术及随后短暂荷尔蒙治疗。

5 hormones   

n. 荷尔蒙，激素 名词hormone的复数形式

参考例句：

• This hormone interacts closely with other hormones in the body. 这种荷尔蒙与体內其他荷尔蒙紧密地相互作用。
• The adrenals produce a large per cent of a man's sex hormones. 肾上腺分泌人体的大部分性激素。

6 allergy   

n.(因食物、药物等而引起的)过敏症

参考例句：

• He developed an allergy to pollen.他对花粉过敏。
• The patient had an allergy to penicillin.该患者对青霉素过敏。

7 giggle   

n.痴笑，咯咯地笑；v.咯咯地笑着说

参考例句：

• Both girls began to giggle.两个女孩都咯咯地笑了起来。
• All that giggle and whisper is too much for me.我受不了那些咯咯的笑声和交头接耳的样子。