laughter是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 笑， 笑声，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It is a fair, even-handed, noble adjustment of things, that while there is infection in disease and sorrow, there is noth-ing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good-humour.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A shrill sound of laughter and of amused voices voic-es of men, women, and children resounded in the street while this wine game lasted.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The simple-hearted Marya Yevgenyevna simply roared with laughter at everything absurd the prince said, and his jokes made Varenka helpless with feeble but infectious laughter, which was something Kitty had never seen before.
-- She felt a feeling such as she had known in childhood, when she had been shut in her room as a punishment, and had heard her sisters' merry laughter outside.
-- he said, and Levin heard smothered laughter among the mowers.
-- The peasant women even made Darya Alexandrovna laugh, and offended the English governess, because she was the cause of the laughter she did not understand.
-- That's the question of an enfant terrible," and Betsy obviously tried to restrain herself, but could not, and went off into peals of that infectious laughter that people laugh who do not laugh often.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If she was vulgar, jocular, unreticent, she was also gallant, she was full of laughter at humbugs, she was capable of a loyalty too casual and natural to seem heroic.
-- As a youngster, the cap-tilted young Max had been a laughing man, and now in gusty arguments his laughter came back.
-- Somewhere he would meet a company of worthies who would succor him with laughter and talk and many drinks--not too many drinks, of course--and motor very rapidly to Lake Minnetonka for a moonlight swim.
-- He had only a little resented their gossip about his wickedness, only in evenings of slow depression had he meditated upon fleeing from them, but at their laughter he was black furious.
-- When Leora insisted that, during his experiment, the cold thing which had stilled the laughter of Sondelius might come to him and he might need her, he tried to satisfy her by promising that if there was a place for her in St. Swithin's, he would send for her.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Well,' the orator began again stolidly and with even in-creased dignity, after waiting for the laughter in the room to subside.
-- Shouts of laughter and even oaths followed.
-- The laughter and the oaths came from those who were listening and also from those who had heard nothing but were simply looking at the figure of the discharged government clerk.
-- His words had created a certain impression; there was a moment of silence; but soon laughter and oaths were heard again.
-- The door leading to the other rooms, or rather cupboards, into which Amalia Lippevechsel's flat was divided stood half open, and there was shouting, uproar and laughter within.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was more laughter at this, and Mr. Quinion said he wouldring the bell for some sherry in which to drink to Brooks.
-- The toast was received with great applause,and such hearty laughter that it made me laugh too; at which theylaughed the more.
-- In consequence of which,'Mr. Omer shook himself and his chair, with laughter at the successof his device, 'she and Joram's at a ball.'
-- In the course of my stumbling upstairs, I fancied I heard a pleasantsound of laughter; and not the laughter of an attorney or barrister,or attorney's clerk or barrister's clerk, but of two or three merrygirls.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "True enough," said the man of bitter moods, looking round upon the company with the antithetic laughter that comes from a keener appreciation of the miseries of life than ordinary men are capable of.
-- A low gurgle of derisive laughter followed the words.
-- The clash of discord between mood and matter here was forced painfully home to the heart; and, as in laughter there are more dreadful phases than in tears, so was there in the steadiness of this agonized man an expression deeper than a cry.
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