人们是如何真的笑死自己的：英语精读讲义

No one knows when they'll reach the end of the road 習語

没人知道自己何时会走到生命的尽头，

and what kind of death they may be faced with. 短語搭配

以及可能面临怎样的死亡。

It could happen in an instant without warning 短語搭配

它可能在没有任何警告的情况下一瞬间发生，

or it could be a long dragged out process 短語動詞

或者是经历一个漫长而拖延的过程，

leaving a person with plenty of time to reflect on their life. 短語搭配

让人有充足的时间去反思自己的人生。

Samuel Butler, an English author who lived in the 1800s,

生活在19世纪的英国作家塞缪尔·巴特勒，

once said,

曾经说过：

"If life must not be taken too seriously, 語法

“如果生活不必太当真，

then so neither must death."

那么死亡亦是如此。”

This quote brings us aptly to today's topic 表達脈絡

这句话恰如其分地引出了今天的主题，

about an end that may be one of the better ways to exit the world. 習語

关于一种或许是离开这个世界更好的方式之一的终结。

Welcome to this episode of the Infographics Show,

欢迎来到本期《The Infographics Show》，

Death by Laughing.

笑死人的那些事。

A friend tells you a joke and you laugh.

朋友给你讲了个笑话，你笑了。

Then they tell you a really funny joke and you laugh so hard you fall over. 語法

然后他们讲了个非常搞笑的笑话，你笑得前仰后合。

And then there's the funniest joke of all,

接着是所有笑话中最搞笑的一个，

the one that made you laugh yourself to death. 語法

一个让你笑到丧命的笑话。

This is, of course,

当然，这只是一种

just a figure of speech. 用詞

比喻的说法。

I mean, if you had really died laughing, 習語

我是说，如果你真的死于大笑，

you wouldn't be able to tell people about it,

你就没法讲给别人听了，

as you'd be lying 6 ft under in a wooden box. 習語

因为你已经躺在木盒子里被埋在六英尺深的地下了。

But can you really die from laughing?

但是你真的会因为笑而死吗？

Actually, if you laugh hard enough, 語法

实际上，如果你笑得足够剧烈，

then it is possible to kill yourself.

确实有可能把自己笑死。

It can happen due to stress on the body when in hysterical laughter. 用詞

这可能是由于在歇斯底里大笑时身体承受的压力造成的。

Some of the ways include ruptured brain aneurysm,

其中一些情况包括脑动脉瘤破裂、

collapsed lung leading to suffocation,

导致窒息的肺塌陷、

heart attack, strangulated hernia which cuts off blood flow to vital organs, 短語動詞

心脏病发作、切断重要器官血流的绞窄性疝气、

asphyxiation, seizure, or stroke.

窒息、癫痫或中风。

None of those circumstances sound very funny at all.

这些情况听起来一点也不好笑。

So, what about some real cases?

那么，真实的案例又是怎样的呢？

Ones where people have found themselves on the wrong side of the joke. 習語

在这些案例中，人们成为了笑话受害者的一方。

When we started to research online,

当我们在网上开始研究时，

we were surprised to find there were more than we had expected. 語法

我们惊讶地发现案例比我们预想的还要多。

We've looked at some of the more interesting cases

我们查看了一些比较有趣的案例，

to see what was discovered about the cause of death

看看关于死因，

beyond the joke that got these people laughing in the first place. 短語搭配

在最初让这些人发笑的笑话之外发现了什么。

Let's take a look.

让我们来看一看。

Five.

五。

Chrysippus was an ancient Greek philosopher,

克律西波斯是古希腊的一位哲学家，

a huge man. He lived more than 200 years before Christ

身材高大。他生活在公元前200多年，

and was known for his work in stoicism,

因其在斯多葛学派的工作而闻名，

an ancient school of philosophy of personal ethics.

这是一个关于个人道德的古代哲学学派。

This meant Chrysippus valued the qualities of his mind over everyday sensory pleasures, 短語搭配

这意味着克律西波斯看重自己精神的品质，胜过日常的感官愉悦，

which made the story of his death somewhat comical in itself,

这也让他的死亡故事本身显得有些滑稽，

as it involved plenty of alcohol beverages and a random donkey.

因为其中涉及大量酒精饮料和一头随机出现的驴。

It was at the 143rd Olympiad where the drink would have been flowing. 語法

那是在第143届古代奥运会上，当时大概正开怀痛饮。

There are two accounts of the story. 用詞

这个故事有两种说法。

In the first,

第一种是，

Chrysippus was a legless on strong wine and keeled over from laughter. 講解

克律西波斯喝浓酒喝得烂醉，然后笑得倒地不起。

Or was it too much wine?

还是说酒喝得太多了？

The second story is a bit more dramatic.

第二个故事则有点戏剧性。

Having seen a donkey chomping on figs, 語法

看到一头驴在咀嚼无花果，

Chrysippus decided to give the creature some wine to wash the fruit down. 短語動詞

克律西波斯决定给这个动物喝点酒把水果顺下去。

He found the incident so hilarious that he laughed himself to his grave.

他觉得这事儿太好笑了，以至于笑到命赴黄泉。

It's hard to properly verify such an old story, 語法

要准确核实这么古老的故事很难，

but it's certainly an interesting one.

但这肯定是个有趣的故事。

Four.

四。

Next, we have the odd case of Damnoen Saen-um,

接下来，我们来看看达农·仙安的离奇案件，

a 52-year-old ice cream truck driver from Bangkok in Thailand

他是一名52岁的泰国曼谷冰淇淋车司机，

who died while laughing in his sleep.

在睡梦中笑着死去了。

Yes, you heard me right, in his sleep. 語氣意圖

是的，你没听错，在睡梦中。

Thailand newspaper The Nation reported that Saen-um laughed for about 2 minutes before stopping breathing.

泰国报纸《The Nation》报道说，仙安笑了大约两分钟后停止了呼吸。

His wife tried to wake him up, but he continued to laugh.

他的妻子试图叫醒他，但他一直在笑。

The autopsy suggested that a heart attack might have been the final cause of death. 講解

尸检表明，心脏病发作可能是最终死因。

"I've never seen a case like this,

“我从未见过这样的案例，

but it's possible that a person could have a heart seizure

但一个人有可能在睡梦中，

while laughing or crying too hard in their sleep,"

因为笑得或哭得太厉害而引发心脏骤停，”

said Dr. Somchai Chakrabhand, deputy director of the Mental Health Department.

精神卫生司副司长Somchai Chakrabhand医生说。

Three.

三。

Thomas "Tommy" Frederick Cooper lived from 1921 to 1984.

托马斯·“汤米”·弗雷德里克·库珀生于1921年，卒于1984年。

He was a British comedian and magician who wore a red fez, 文化背景

他是一位戴着红色菲斯帽的英国喜剧演员和魔术师，

which is a red cylindrical hat with a tassel named after the Moroccan city of Fez.

那是一种带有流苏的红色圆筒帽，以摩洛哥城市非斯命名。

Cooper was a big man,

库珀是个大块头，

standing at 6 ft 4 in and weighing more than 210 lb. 語法

身高6英尺4英寸，体重超过210磅。

On the 15th of April, 1984, this British comedian collapsed with a heart attack on live national television.

1984年4月15日，这位英国喜剧演员在全国电视直播中因心脏病发作倒地。

It may not have been technically the laughing that killed Cooper,

从技术上讲，害死库珀的可能不是笑声，

but he was cracking jokes at the time and surrounded by laughter 短語搭配

但他当时正在讲笑话，周围充满了笑声，

as he was on stage in the midst of a comedy routine at Her Majesty's Theatre in London. 短語搭配

因为他当时正站在伦敦陛下剧院的舞台上表演喜剧。

The live audience and thousands of TV viewers thought it was part of his act 用詞

现场观众和成千上万的电视观众以为这是他表演的一部分，

and so waited for him to get up, but it was soon clear that something was wrong. 語法

于是等他站起来，但很快情况就明朗了，出事了。

Two.

二。

To more recent times,

到了更近的时代，

in 2013,

2013年，

22-year-old Mangesh Pande visited a multiplex along with his girlfriend in the state of Vasai in India

22岁的曼格什·潘德和女友参观了印度瓦赛邦的一家多厅影院，

to watch a Hindi comedy called Grand Masti.

去观看一部名为《Grand Masti》的印地语喜剧。

Everyone loves a comedy,

每个人都喜欢喜剧，

but Pande loved it so much

但潘德太喜欢它了，

that he laughed himself all the way to a heart attack.

以至于他一路笑到了心脏病发作。

Pande was rushed to Cardinal Gracias Hospital, 短語搭配

潘德被紧急送往枢机主教格拉西亚斯医院，

but died before the ambulance could get him to the emergency room. 語法

但在救护车将他送进急诊室之前就去世了。

Rakesh Shah, director of KT Vision,

KT Vision的主管拉凯什·沙阿

explained that during the incident,

解释了事件发生时的过程，

"I was at the box office

“我当时在售票处，

when one of our employees informed me about the incident.

我们的一名员工把这件事通知了我。

The youth was with his girlfriend and they were watching the 6 pm show of Grand Masti."

这名年轻人和他的女友在一起，他们当时正在看下午6点场的《Grand Masti》。”

Those who sat beside the youth said he was laughing his heart out. 習語

坐在年轻人旁边的人说他当时笑得很开心。

According to Indian newspaper DNA,

据印度报纸《DNA》报道，

a police official from Manickpur Police Station

马尼克普尔警察局的一名警官

said that a case of accidental death has been registered. 文化背景

表示，已按意外死亡案件立案登记。

One.

一。

And finally,

最后，

there's the case of UK citizen Alex Mitchell,

还有一个关于英国公民亚历克斯·米切尔的案例，

who suffered heart failure after viewing the Ecky Thump episode of The Goodies in 1975. 講解

他在1975年观看了《The Goodies》的Ecky Thump那一集后遭遇心力衰竭。

Maybe you've not heard of The Goodies.

也许你还没听说过《The Goodies》。

They're all made up of three British comedians, 短語動詞

它们完全由三位英国喜剧演员组成，

Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graeme Garden, and Bill Oddie,

蒂姆·布鲁克-泰勒、格雷姆·加登和比尔·奥迪，

who wrote and performed comedy shows during the 1970s and early 1980s,

他们在20世纪70年代和80年代初撰写并表演喜剧节目，

and funny enough to cause heart failure, it seems.

看起来，他们确实有趣到足以引起心力衰竭。

But this mystery further unfolded in 2012, 表達脈絡

但这个谜团在2012年进一步解开，

when Mitchell's 23-year-old granddaughter,

当时米切尔23岁的孙女

Lisa Cork,

丽莎·科克

had a near fatal heart attack

遭遇了近乎致命的心脏病发作，

at home on the Isle of Sheppey in the UK.

事发地点在英国谢佩岛的家中。

She was diagnosed with Long QT syndrome, 短語搭配

她被诊断出患有长QT综合征，

which doctors believe also could have caused Mitchell's death.

医生认为这也可能是导致米切尔死亡的原因。

There are just a few cases of how some people have laughed themselves to death.

因笑而死的案例其实只有那么几个。

The ones we looked at stretch 2,000 plus years. 用詞

我们所查看的案例跨越了两千多年的历史。

One thing that seems certain 表達脈絡

有一点似乎是肯定的，

is that it's not actually the laughing and joking that causes someone's life to end, 語法

那就是导致人丧命的其实并非大笑和开玩笑，

but instead an underlying medical condition. 用詞

而是潜在的健康问题。

So, if you're fit and healthy,

所以，如果你身体健康，

it's probably safe to keep laughing hard at your favorite jokes.

继续对你最喜欢的笑话开怀大笑可能是安全的。

Do you know of other strange and unlikely ways people have kicked the proverbial bucket? 習語

你还知道哪些人们一命呜呼的离奇方式吗？

Let us know in the comments.

在评论区告诉我们吧。

Also, be sure to check out our other video,

同时，请务必去看看我们的另一部视频，

What happens when you die?

《你死后会发生什么？》

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