星期三是一周之中最郁闷的

　　Wednesday – not Monday – is the worst day of the week, according to research by two American applied mathematicians。

　　美国两位应用数学家研究发现，一周中最郁闷的一天是周三，而不是周一。

　　Professors Christopher Danforth and Peter Dodds, of Vermont University, analysed words used in 2.4 million internet blogs such as Twitter, giving a score out of nine depending on how positive they were。

　　佛蒙特大学的克里斯托弗-丹福思和彼得-多兹教授对在Twitter等网站上的240万篇博客中使用的词语进行了分析，并将其按照积极程度从1到9打分。

　　Words like free, fun, and rainbow all scored above eight, while words such as betray, cruel, hatred and suffocate all scored less than two。

　　自由、乐趣、彩虹等词语的得分都在8分以上，而背叛、残忍、仇恨和窒息等词语的得分都在2分以下。

　　Saturday and Sunday rated predictably well but, perhaps surprisingly, Monday came out as the second happiest day of the week, partly because people were still reminiscing about the weekend. However by Wednesday, these feelings had subsided。

　　不出所料，周六和周日得分很高；但可能让人意外的是，周一在一周的快乐排行榜中名列第二，这部分是因为人们还沉浸在周末的快乐之中。然而到了周三，这种情绪已渐渐消退。

　　Professor Danforth said: “People's daily experience is being reflected somewhat in what they're saying. And this is more of a story, we think, for Twitter messages, which we've just started to pay attention to, about a year ago。

　　丹福思教授说：“从某种程度上来说，人们每天的经历可反映在他们的谈话里。我们认为，对于Twitter 上的那些信息来说，它们更像是一个故事。我们大约在一年前才开始关注这个问题。”