laughter
要点笑い
意味
- 笑い,笑い声
例文
They held their sides with laughter at his joke.
彼の冗談を聞いて彼は腹を抱えて笑っていた。
His joke made all the class burst into laughter.
彼の冗談はクラス全員を爆笑させた。
Humans are the only animals capable of laughter.
笑うことができる動物は人間だけです。
語源
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
From Middle English laughter, laghter, laȝter, from Old English hleahtor (“laughter, jubilation, derision”), from Proto-Germanic *hlahtraz (“laughter”), from Proto-Indo-European *klek-, *kleg- (“to shout”). Cognate with German Gelächter (“laughter, hilarity, merriment”), Danish and Norwegian latter (“laughter”), Icelandic hlátur (“laughter”). More at laugh.
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