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TheImportanceofHumour

Humourhasbeenanessential①partofhumanbehaviourforthousandsofyears.ThereiscomedyinthetextsofAncientGreece②，andmedieval③writingsarefilledwith④jokes.[1]Whilethesesamejokesmightnotbeasfunnytousnowastheywerethen,theirauthorsunderstoodthathumourcouldnotonlyentertainbutalso⑤thrownewlighton⑥sensitiveoremotive⑦issues.

[1]本句为复合句。While引导让步状语从句。主句中含有that引导的宾语从句，notonly...butalso...连接并列谓语。

Closertomoderntimes,someonewhoisrememberedforhisabilitytocombine⑧humourwithmoreseriousmessages⑨isAmericanwriter,MarkTwain.Twainsparticularstyleofwriting⑩isfunnyandoftenmischievous?.Forexample,inhisclassicnovel?TheAdventuresofTomSawyer,hefamouslysays,“Writingiseasy.[2]Allyouhavetodoiscrossout?thewrongwords.”Butheisequallywellknownforhiswittyremarks?inhiseverydayinteractions?withpeople.Forinstance,whileonalecturingtour?oftheUnitedStates,Twainwentintoabarbersshop?togetahaircutandashave.Thebarber,notrecognisinghim,askedifhehadatickettothelecture.WhenTwainrepliedthathedidnt,thebarbertoldhimthatifhewantedtogototheevent?hewouldhavetostand,astherewerenoseatsleftinthetheatre.Twainsresponsewas,“Thatsjustmyluck.Ialwayshavetostandwhenthatfellowlectures！”

[2]All作主句主语，其后的定语从句中含有实义动词do的某种形式时，作表语的不定式可以省略不定式符号to。

LikeTwain,butontheothersideoftheworld,LinYutangwassoontobecomefamousforhisuniquebrand?ofhumour.Awell-knownbilingualwriter?，Linbroughttheconcepteq\o(○,\s\up1(21))ofhumourtomodernChineseliteratureeq\o(○,\s\up1(22)).In1924,hecreativelyborrowed“youmo”fromAncientChineseasthetranslationfortheEnglishword“humour”．“Youmo”isstillbeingusedinthiswaytoday.

Linsquickwiteq\o(○,\s\up1(23))helpedmakehimfamousasamasterofhumoureq\o(○,\s\up1(24)).[3]Once,h