他们的笑声不是因其他人的压力，酒精或聚会人群的异想天开而引起的，而是一种乐观的笑声，即使在他们生活的艰难时期，他们也抓住了一种可能性，然后才通过手指滑过手指。
(Theirs was a laughter fueled not by pressure from others, nor by alcohol or the whims of a partying crowd, but by a certain optimism that, even in the midst of the difficult times in which they lived, they had grasped a sense of possibility before it slipped through their fingers.)