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Take Away English 随身英语 2 June 2014 Laughing to death 笑死了 Vocabulary: Ill health 词汇: 健康不佳 Let me tell you a joke: which aspect of the English language are boxers best at? Dont you know? Its punch-uation (as in punctuation!) Funny? Well, maybe youd better not laugh too hard. According to a paper published by the British Medical Journal, laughter isnt always the best medicine. Sometimes it can even be harmful. Professor Robin Ferner from the University of Birmingham, one of the authors of the study, Sometimes laughter is no laughing matter found that bad things could happen to people who laughed too much. He says: We found people with heart rhythm disturbance which had stopped their heart, we found people who had fainted, we found people whose gullets had burst, and we found people whod dislocated their jaws or burst their lungs. It seems that laughing can be no laughing matter. But its not all doom and gloom. Professor Ferner says there are benefits to laughing… when you want to lose weight, for example. Yes, thats right: laugh and be slimmer! Professor Ferner explains that : You use energy when you laugh, you move your diaphragm, you expand your lungs, and both those things can be helpful. According to the research, laughing for a quarter of an hour can burn up to 40 calories, and if you laughed all day youd use up about 2,000 calories, which is what most people consume in a day. But dont do that or you might end up with a painful jaw. Ouch! Or you might find people looking at you in a funny way. Theres also one kind of laughter, described by the authors as pathological, which can be caused by medical disorders such as cerebral tumours and multiple sclerosis. But I dont want to finish this article leaving you feeling desperate. Laughter comes naturally for most of us. Babies begin to laugh at around 3-6 months. So give in to your sense of humour and… keep smiling. Life is short anyway. 词汇表请参看答案与词汇部分 Take Away English 随身英