大学英语自学教程 下册 un12

[12:44.92]Text B
[12:47.66]To Sleep,Perchance to Dream
[12:49.79]睡觉,间或有梦
[12:51.92]So you awoke this morning in a miserable mood.
[12:54.30]  这样,今天早上你本来心情很糟.
[12:56.67]Well,maybe your special dream character didn't put in an appearance last night,
[12:59.70]唔,也许你的特别的梦中人昨夜未曾入梦来,
[13:02.73]or maybe there just weren't enough people drifting through your dreams
[13:05.11]或者也许只是没有足够的人进入你的梦境.
[13:07.49]If that sounds like far-fetched fantasy
[13:09.47]  如果那听起来像靠不住的空想,
[13:11.46]consider these interesting findings that have emerged
[13:16.11]from eight years of sleep and dream research
[13:20.68]at the Veterans Adminis Administration Hospital
[13:24.62]in Cincinnati,Ohio:
[13:26.36]想一想在俄亥俄州辛辛那提的退伍军人管理医院进行的对睡眠和做梦的8年研究中发现的有趣结果吧.
[13:28.10]While sleep affects how sleepy,friendly,
[13:32.77]aggressive,and unhappy we feel after awakening,
[13:35.50]  虽然睡眠影响我们醒来后是否困倦,友好,好胜,不开心,
[13:38.23]feelings of happiness or unhappiness depend most strongly on our dreams
[13:41.46]感觉开心与否主要在于我们的梦.
[13:44.69]Each of us has a special dream character,
[13:46.72]  我们每个人都有一个特别的梦中人,
[13:48.76]a type of person whose appearance in our dreams
[13:53.31]makes us feel happier when we awake.
[13:55.28]一个在我们的梦中出现,醒来时使我们感觉更开心的人.
[13:57.25]What we dream at night isn't as important to how we feel in the morning
[14:03.60]as the number of people who appear in our dreams
[14:08.14]The more people,the better we feel.
[14:12.40]Our sleep influences our mood.Our mood,in turnaffects our performance.
[14:16.12]   在夜里我们的情绪,我们的情绪进而影响我们的行为,
[14:19.85]And throughout the day,our levels of mood and performance remain closely linked.
[14:23.28]一整天,我们情绪高昂亦或低落和行为总是密切相关.
[14:26.72]During the past two decades,research has greatly expanded our knowledge
[14:32.96]about sleep and dreams.
[14:34.64]  在过去20年里,研究大大地扩展了我们对睡眠和梦的知识.
[14:36.33]Scientists have identified various stages of sleep,
[14:38.69]科学家们已经可以识别不同的睡眠阶段,
[14:41.06]and they have found that humans can function well on very little sleep
[14:43.94]而且他们发现,人在睡眠很少的情况下,机体仍能很好地运转,
[14:46.83]but only if they dream.
[14:48.66]但只是在睡眠时做了梦才如此.
[14:50.49]Yet the true function of sleep and dreaming
[14:54.75]continues to elude precise explanation.
[14:56.88]  而睡眠和做梦的真正功能依然得不到准确的解释.
[14:59.00]In 1970 Milton Kramer and The Roth,researchers at the VA Hospital
[15:06.76]and the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine,respectively,
[15:09.64]  1970年,VA医院和辛辛那提大学医学院的研究者米尔顿.克莱默和托马斯.罗斯,
[15:12.51]raised this question: Do our moods in the morning
[15:15.24]分别提出了这个问题:我们早晨的情绪
[15:17.97]relate in any way to our sleep and dreams the previous night?
[15:20.50]与我们前一天夜里的睡眠和做梦有某些关系吗?
[15:23.04]Human experience suggests that they do.
[15:25.22]   人们的经验表明它们是有关系的.
[15:27.40]Certainly we generally feel better after a good night's sleep.
[15:29.97]当然,在一夜足睡之后,我们一般会感觉较好.
[15:32.55]But Drs. Kramer and Roth sought a much more definitive answer.
[15:35.48]但克莱默和罗斯医生发现了一个更明确的答案,
[15:38.42]And that answer,though still evolving,is a positive yes.
[15:41.36]虽然这个答案仍在逐步形成中,但答案却是肯定的.
[15:44.30]Kramer and Roth began by seeking to determine
[15:46.63]  克莱默和罗斯开始于探求一个人的情绪
[15:48.95]whether one's mood differs between night and morning,
[15:51.33]在早上的晚上是否不同,
[15:53.70]and whether this is related directly to sleep.
[15:55.78]以及是否和睡眠直接相关.
[15:57.86]They found that there is a difference,and it is definitely related to sleep
[16:00.89]他们发现确实是不同的,也确实与睡眠有关.
[16:03.92]Then they explored the various aspects of mood
[16:06.14]接着,他们研究了情绪的不同方面
[16:08.36]and their relationship to the various stages of sleep and dreaming