Men spend a lot of time trying to make women laugh, so frequent and hearty chortles are taken as great compliments.

男人花费许多时间让女人一展笑颜，频繁和发自内心的欢笑是对他的极大赞美。

Three yellow-billed blue magpies throw themselves into the air with startled chortles, fluttering their absurdly long tail feathers.

三只蓝色的黄嘴喜鹊飞入空中，发出嘎嘎的惊叫，笨拙地摇动着长长的尾部羽毛。

"We completed it in five weeks and we had to wait for the Germans to arrive," he chortles, adding that they also fixed an ill-fitting German component in 24 hours.

他开怀大笑，“我们五个星期就完成了，现在就等着德国人来”。他还提到只用了不到24个小时修好了一个有问题德国产部件。

Not all is doom and gloom. The outside world chortles at a good Indian fiasco, such as the 2010 Commonwealth games, yet pays less attention to successes such as the cricket world cup this year.

前景并非总是如此灰暗，外国人只知道笑话印度在2010年的英联邦运动会等的惨败，而对今年板球世界杯上印度取得的战绩却很少关注。