“幽默”是个外来语,它来源于英语Humour的音译,译名最早见于北京出版的《语丝》杂志。台湾梁实秋主编的《远东英汉大词典》的解释是:“幽默;诙谐;滑稽。”《辞海》的解释是:“(一)寂静无声,《楚辞九章怀沙》:‘孔静幽默’;(二)美学名词,通过影射、讽喻、双关等修辞手法,在善意的微笑中揭露生活中乖讹和不同情理之处。”显然后 “Humor” is a foreign language, which comes from the English transliteration of Humor, the earliest translation found in Beijing’s “Yu Si” magazine. The interpretation of “Far East English-Chinese Dictionary” edited by Liang Shih-ch’iu in Taiwan is: “Humor; witty; funny.” The interpretation of “Cihai” is: "I Quietly silent, (2) Aesthetics is a term used to reveal the misbehavior and different feelings of life in the smile of goodwill through the rhetorical devices of shadow, allegory and pun, etc.