【小知识·美文赏析】为什么我们需要睡个好觉(一)

 

睡眠占用了我们一生三分之一的时间,但是真正有人知道它到底是怎么回事吗?...





Sleep. It's something we spend about a third of our lives doing, but do any of us really understand what it's all about?(睡眠占用了我们一生三分之一的时间,但是真正有人知道它到底是怎么回事吗?)

注意这里几分之几的表达

规则:基数词+序数词

分子为一的时候,序数词用单数;分子大于一的时候,序数词用复数。

比如:三分之一 one third、三分之二 two thirds、四分之一 one quarter、五分之一 one fifth)



(金萍老师的一个汇报课)
Two thousand years ago, Galen, one of the most prominent medical researchers of the ancient world, proposed that while we're awake, our brain's motive force, its juice, would flow out to all the other parts of the body, animating them but leaving the brain all dried up,(两千年前,古代名医伽林提出:当我们醒着的时候,我们大脑的原动力,液体,会流动到身体所有其他部位,维持它们的活力,但这却使大脑枯竭。)

注意one of 后面要加名词复数

例:one of the students / one of the longest rivers

另外:one of 短语做主语,谓语动词用单数

例:One of them is good at math.



(金萍老师的一个汇报课
and he thought that when we sleep, all this moisture that filled the rest of the body would come rushing back, rehydrating the brain and refreshing the mind.(并且他认为,在我们睡觉的时候,这些充满了我们身体其他部位的液体,会再回到我们的大脑,为大脑补充水分,并且使我们更有精神。)

我们来看看这几种表达,他们都在表达“让我们更有精神”这个意思。

It makes my brain more active.

It clears my brain.

It refreshes my mind.

(金萍老师的一个汇报课
Now, that sounds completely ridiculous to us now, but Galen was simply trying to explain something about sleep that we all deal with every day.(虽然这些观点如今我们听来很荒谬。但是伽林很好的解释了那些我们每天都要面对的睡眠的事情。)

1. 还有两个单词也有“荒谬的”的意思

absurd

preposterous

2. 感官动词表示“看起来”、“听起来”、“闻起来”这样的意思,后面直接加形容词。

The sight looks beautiful. 风景(看起来)很美。

The cake tastes good./ delicious. 蛋糕(尝起来)很美味。

The flowers smell nice ./sweet. 花儿(闻起来)很香。

The cloth feels soft ./comfortable. 布料(摸起来)很柔软。

The story sounds interesting. 故事(听起来)很有趣。



(金萍老师的一个汇报课
See, we all know based on our ownexperience that when you sleep, it clears your mind, and when you don't sleep, it leaves your mind murky. (那么,根据自身的经验我们都知道,如果我们睡觉了,我们的头脑会变的清醒。而如果我们没有睡觉,大脑就会变糊涂。)


(金萍老师的一个汇报课
But while we know a great deal more about sleep now than when Galen was around, we still haven't understood why it is that sleep, of all of our activities, has this incredible restorative function for the mind. (我们现在对睡眠的了解,比伽林那个时期多了很多,但是我们仍然不知道,为什么在我们所有的活动中,只有睡眠能使我们的头脑变得清晰。)

(选自 ted 演讲 Jeff Iliff:One more reason to get a good night’s sleep,未完待续)


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