So, why should a non-frightening incongruity

为什么一个非恐惧性的不一致
cause people to make a distinctive loud noise consisted of staccato

能引起人们发出独特的声音这声音是断断续续的
segments of one fifteenth of a second each separated by a fifth of a second?

每节十五分之一秒相隔十五分之一秒呢
It doesn't explain why we make that loud noise when dealing with incongruity.

它没有解释为什么在处理不一致时我们会发出巨大的声音
It's not the case that incongruity causes laughter.

笑声并不是由不一致引起的
If there was a bowl of fruit up there as you walked in, it'd be incongruous

当你走进教室发现这里有一大碗的水果这是不一致的
but people wouldn't shriek with laughter and point to the fruit.

但你们不会对着水果尖声狂笑
It's also--a lot of laughter isn't caused by incongruity

有很多笑声都不是由不一致引起的
so a lot of times when we laugh

我们大部分的笑
there's nothing incongruous in any deep sense about it.

在深层次上没有什么不一致的
So, laughter is kind of a puzzle.

因此笑真是一个不解之谜
We don't know why we laugh. We don't know what makes us laugh.

我们不知道我们为什么笑我们不知道是什么让我们发笑