核心畫面
For a today, the safest anchor is the modern one: humour is the funny side of things — both the ability to see it and enjoy it, and the funny quality sitting in a remark, a film or a situation. The older senses in this entry point at something else, a person's mood or temper, and the two do not connect in an obvious way in modern English.
以現在的用法來說，可以把重心放在「好笑的那一面」：既指一個人看得出好笑、也笑得出來的能力（a sense of hu…更多收起
以現在的用法來說，可以把重心放在「好笑的那一面」：既指一個人看得出好笑、也笑得出來的能力（a sense of humour），也指一句話、一部片、一個場面裡好笑的那個部分。要提醒的是，還有一組舊用法指的是「心情、脾性」——在現代英文裡，這兩邊的關聯已經看不太出來了，與其硬編一個比喻，不如把它們當成同一個字底下兩塊分開的地。原始詞典資料6 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
humournoun/ˈhjuː.mə(ɹ)/
- 1
The quality of being amusing, comical, funny.
- She has a great sense of humour, and I always laugh a lot whenever we get together.
- The sensitive subject was treated with humour, but in such way that no one was offended.
- 2
A mood, especially a bad mood; a temporary state of mind or disposition brought upon by an event; an abrupt illogical inclination or whim.
- He was in a particularly vile humour that afternoon.
- I like not the humour of lying.
- 3
archaichistoricalAny of the fluids in an animal body, especially the four "cardinal humours" of blood, yellow bile, black bile and phlegm that were believed to control the health and mood of the human body.
- A humour is a liquid or fluent part of the body, comprehended in it, for the preservation of it; and is either innate or born with us, or adventitious and acquisite.
- The cause is a temperate conglutination ; for both bodies are clammy and viscous , and do bridle the deflux of humours to the hurts , without penning them in too much
- 4
medicinesciencesEither of the two regions of liquid within the eyeball, the aqueous humour and vitreous humour.
- 5
obsoleteMoist vapour, moisture.
humourverb/ˈhjuː.mə(ɹ)/
- 1
To pacify by indulging.
- I know you don't believe my story, but humour me for a minute and imagine it to be true.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。