Opening up a Can of Laughter想笑時就開一「罐」笑聲吧！

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Canned laughter is the recording of fake laughter that you hear in the background of some older sitcom shows. The people you hear aren’t actually a live audience laughing at the joke. These sounds were recorded at an earlier time.

Charles Douglas, a TV sound engineer, came up with the idea in the 1950s. He became frustrated with live TV audiences because he felt they laughed at the wrong times. So, he experimented with adding canned laughter. Douglas got good results, and soon after, canned laughter became a standard in the TV industry.

罐頭笑聲是你在一些較老的情境喜劇中會聽到的錄製假笑聲。你聽到的事實上並非一群現場觀眾聽到笑話的笑聲。這些聲音是更早之前就錄好的。

查爾斯•道格拉斯是一位在 1950年代想出這點子的電視音效工程師。他對電視節目現場的觀眾感到懊惱，因為他覺得他們都在錯的時間點笑。因此，他實驗了加入罐頭笑聲。道格拉斯獲得良好成效，而很快地，罐頭笑聲成了電視產業的標準配備。

生活必備字詞

laughter n. 笑，笑聲（不可數）
sitcom n.情境喜劇（situation comedy 略稱）
become / be frustratedwith...　　對..感到懊惱╱挫折╱灰心
All of us were frustrated with the result of the project.