譯文及生詞短語整理:朗讀者小組
Translation
Why Sitting at Your Computer All Day CanWipe You Out
為什么整天坐在電腦前會使你精疲力盡
By Katie Heaney
Like most days, I spentthe bulk ofyesterday sitting in what I’ve determined to be the breeziest corner of my apartment, typing on my laptop. I filed a story,transcribedinterviews for a few hours, and sent about half a million emails, but rarely got up from my chair. Still, by late afternoon, I wasn’t just exhausted mentally, but physically, too —disproportionatelyso, it seemed, considering how little I’d moved. After briefly panicking that I’d fallen suddenly ill (blogging cancer?), I reached out to a couple of sleep and stress experts to tell me why it is that mentalfatiguecan feel so … physical.
和平時一樣擎椰,我昨天大部分時間都坐在我認為家里最讓人放松的地方契讲,在筆記本電腦上打字。我存檔了一個故事刑枝,花了幾個小時轉述訪談內容橙垢,發(fā)送了數不清的電子郵件垛叨,但我的屁股幾乎沒有離開我的椅子。不過到了下午晚些時候柜某,我不僅精神上疲憊不堪嗽元,而且身體也精疲力竭了,考慮到我?guī)缀鯖]有移動位子喂击,這顯的非常不合理剂癌。在短暫地恐慌自己會不會突然生病(博客癌翰绊?)之后佩谷,我去看了幾個睡眠與壓力方面的專家,想讓他們告訴我為什么在精神上疲憊的同時會感覺身體也很累监嗜。
Certain forms of tiredness can often feel more “earned” than others. I get being tired after a run, but after sending some emails? Come on. Yet Dr. Steven Feinsilver, the director of sleep medicine at Lenox Hill Hospital, stresses that mental fatigue is very muchlegitimate. He explains that the human body reacts to stress in many of the same waysregardless ofwhether the source is mental, like a difficult math problem, or physical, like running. “Your heart will pump and you’ll produceadrenalinewhether somebody’s chasing you, or you’re just really upset about something,” he said. Furthermore, the brain requires a disproportionately high amount of the body’s energy,accounting forabout 20 percent of theoxygenconsumed by the body. “Your muscles normally aren’tsuckinga lot of oxygenout ofyou,” says Feinsilver. “With exercise, they will. But the brain always takes a lot of your energy.” In other words, if you’re conscious, your brain demands your energy, and lots of it. Using your brain takes real, honest, physical work — it’s just not visible to us the way using our muscles to exercise is.
某些形式的疲勞往往會比其他形式更容易出現谐檀。跑步過后,我感到很累這很正常裁奇,但當我發(fā)了一些電子郵件后也很累桐猬?怎么會!然而勒諾克斯山醫(yī)院的睡眠醫(yī)學主任Steven Feinsilver博士強調框喳,精神疲勞是非常合理的课幕。他解釋說人體以很多相同的方式對壓力做出反應厦坛,無論來源是精神上的五垮,比如解一個困難的數學題乍惊,還是身體上的,比如跑步放仗。他說:“你的心臟會怦怦直跳润绎,你會產生腎上腺素,無論是否有人在追趕你诞挨,還是只是對事情感到很傷心莉撇。”此外惶傻,大腦需要極高比例的身體能量棍郎,約占身體消耗的氧氣的20%。 “你的肌肉通常不會吸收大量的氧氣银室,”Feinsilver說涂佃。 “在運動時,它們才會蜈敢。但大腦總是需要大量能量辜荠。“換句話說抓狭,只要你處于有意識狀態(tài)伯病,你的大腦就需要能量,很多的能量否过。使用你的大腦也會耗費真正的午笛、實實在在的能量——只是并不像肌肉運動耗費能量那樣那么明顯。
New words
1.transcribe英 ?[tr?n'skra?b; trɑ?n-] 美 ?[tr?n'skra?b]?
vt. 轉錄苗桂;抄寫
e.g.It takes around 20 hours to transcribe, proofread and then print 69 pages of Braille.
抄寫药磺、校對、然后打印69頁的盲文需要20小時誉察。
2.disproportionately英 ?[,dispr?'p?:??nitli] 美 ?[,dispr?'p?:??nitli]?
adv. 不成比例地
e.g.Johnson’s aversion to this tax was part of his reluctance to ask for any sacrifices for the Vietnam War -- except from the disproportionately blue-collar army that was fighting it.
約翰遜對這項稅的反感与涡,部分是因為除了浴血奮戰(zhàn)的不成比例的藍領軍人外,他猶豫要不要要求其他人為越戰(zhàn)做出一點點犧牲持偏。
3.fatigue英 ?[f?'ti?g] 美 ?[f?'tig]?
n. 疲勞驼卖,疲乏
e.g.By now your nausea and fatigue should have cleared up completely.
現在,你的嘔吐和疲勞癥狀應該已經完全消除了鸿秆。
4.legitimate英 ?[l?'d??t?m?t] 美 ?[l??d??t?m?t]?
adj. 合理的酌畜;合法的;正當的
e.g.That’s aperfectly legitimatequestion.
那個問題完全合乎情理卿叽。
5.adrenaline英 ?[?'dren?l?n] 美 ?[??dr?n??l?n]?
n. 腎上腺素
e.g.But for some people merely imagining this scene creates an adrenaline surge.
但是對于某些人但是想象這一幕就會腎上腺素激增桥胞。
6.oxygen英 ?['?ks?d?(?)n] 美 ?['ɑks?d??n]?
n. [化學] 氧氣
e.g.Carbon dioxide consists of carbon and oxygen.
二氧化碳是由碳和氧組成的恳守。
Phrases
1.wipe out筋疲力竭
2.the bulk of大多數,大部分
3.regardless of不顧贩虾,不管
4.account for(比例)占
5.suck out of從……中吸出
6.supplementary materials:
我們的大腦是三層結構的催烘,第一層是“鱷魚大腦”負責處理我們的直覺,在幾億年前就已經存在了缎罢;第二層是“猴子大腦”負責處理我們的情緒伊群,成型于哺乳動物出現之后;第三層是專屬于人類的“理智大腦”策精,可以說整個人類文明都是建立在這最后一層“理智大腦”之上的舰始。
我們全身的能量隨著血液從心臟出發(fā),先流經“鱷魚大腦”咽袜,然后是“猴子大腦”丸卷,最后進入“理智大腦”,在這個過程中只要我們處于有意識狀態(tài)询刹,就會產生各種直覺谜嫉、各種情緒從而耗費大量的能量,尤其是在專注的做某件事情的時候范抓,由于“理智大腦”的加入耗費的能量會更多骄恶。你的大腦在無形中耗費大量的能量,這就是一個人坐在電腦前工作一天之后感覺精疲力竭的原因匕垫。
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