Laugh tracks in television shows like I Love Lucy have been encouraging us to chuckle since the 1950s.

自上世纪50年代以来，《我爱露西》等电视节目的笑声音轨一直在鼓励我们发笑。

It's called a laugh track, or whatever. Anyway...it's all fake.

叫做笑声音轨还是什么的，反正… … 都是假的。

Giotta also notes that laugh tracks helped to differentiate early television as a medium that was separate from film.

Giotta 还指出，笑声音轨帮助早期的电视与电影区别开来。

They then synchronized the MRI datawith the laugh track to see how the brain changes when it's registering something funny.

然后研究远让磁共振数据与笑的轨迹同步，观察当有趣的事情发生时大脑的变化。

Many multi camera shows that use laugh tracks are actually still shot in front of a live studio audience.

许多使用笑声音轨的多功能摄像机显示实际上仍然在现场演播室观众面前拍摄。

No popcorn emotions here, no laugh track.

这里没有爆米花情绪， 没有笑声。

It's called a laugh track, or whatever. Anyway...

叫做笑声音轨 还是什么的 反正。

I love the laugh track idea, and I want to workshop some laughter with you.

我喜欢笑声轨道的想法，我想和你一起练习一些笑声。

In a test they ran episodes of Seinfeld (which has a laugh track) and episodes of The Simpsons (which doesn't).

在测试中，他们播放了几集《宋飞正传》(里面有笑声)和几集《辛普森一家》(里面没有笑声)。

One of the great discoveries in television and movies was the invention of the laugh track.

电视和电影的伟大发现之一是笑声轨道的发明。

There's good reason to wonder if the laugh track was ever really funny, or if it was always destined for TV hall of infamy.

我们有充分的理由去怀疑，笑声音轨是否曾经真的很有趣，或者它是否一直注定要成为电视的耻辱门面。

The laugh track makes things a lot funnier because people laugh a lot more when they're in groups.

笑声轨道让事情变得更有趣，因为人们在群体中笑得更多。

Early TV needed a way for folks to differentiate pre-recorded scripted shows from moving pictures, and the laugh track helped to sweeten that move.

早期的电视节目需要一种方法来区分预先录制好的节目和移动的画面（电影），而笑声有助于使这种画面的移动更加温和。

Even though the laugh track gag has become synonymous with the idea of mass produced shows and the absence of “genuine” humor, that isn't always the case.

尽管在笑声中插科打诨已经成为了大量炮制节目和缺乏“真正”幽默的代名词，但情况并非总是如此。

Well the short answer is: we're all a bunch of lying liars because as much as we love to hate on the laugh track, research shows it still kind of works.

我们都是一群撒谎的骗子，因为尽管我们倾向于讨厌这个笑声音轨，但研究表明，它还是有用的。

And in the case of Seinfeld (the show that already has a laugh track embedded into the episodes) “… laugh track moments can be considered to have a greater percentage of humorous content than the remainder of the episode.”

以《宋飞正传》为例(《宋飞正传》已经在每集中嵌入了一个笑料)，“… … 笑料片段中幽默成分的比例可以认为比这一集剩下的部分要高。”

So when did we take the leap from hiring folks to cut up in the studio, to laugh tracks that either override (or in some cases entirely replace) organic audience laughter?

那么，我们是什么时候从雇佣员工到在演播室里进行剪辑飞跃到能够覆盖(或在某些情况下完全取代)观众自然笑声的笑声呢？

According to Giotta, the laugh track wasn't originally about papering over terrible jokes and missed punchlines, but rather a way to control the unpredictable responses of studio audiences that were a hold over from radio broadcast days.

据 Giotta 说，笑声音轨最初并不是为了掩盖低俗的笑话和防止错过笑点，而是一种控制演播室观众不可预测的反应的方式，就像在播出广播节目的日子里一样。

Also according to a 2004 journal article Joseph M. Moran et al from the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences at Dartmouth College, those canned laugh tracks are sometimes placed where real laughter already occurs.

同样，根据达特茅斯学院心理和脑科学部门的 Joseph M. Moran 等人2004年发表的一篇期刊文章，这些预先录制的笑声音轨有时被放置在已经有真正笑声的地方。

The episodes were both played and the study found that moments detected as “humorous” remained roughly the same, regardless of whether or not the laugh track kicked in to indicate when the audience should laugh.

这些片段同时播放，研究发现，其中被认为是“幽默”的时刻大致相同，不管笑声是否在暗示观众何时应该笑。