Chicken Soup for the Soul:Comfort Food Fights Loneliness(心灵鸡汤:爽心食品排解孤独感)
Mashed potatoes, macaroni and cheese, may be bad for your arteries. 1 according to a study in Psychological Science, they’re good for your heart and 2 .The study focuses on “comfort food” and how it makes people feel.
土豆泥,通心粉和奶酪可能对动脉血管有害,但是,据《心理科学》一项研究表明,它们对心脏有利并且能抑制不利情绪。其研究对象是爽心食品,目的是探究人们对爽心食品的感觉。
"For me 3 ,food has always played a big role in my family,” says Jordan Troisi, a graduate student at the University of Buffalo, and lead author on the study.The study came out of the research program of his co—author Shira Gabriel.It has 4 non-human things that may affect human emotions.Some people reduce loneliness by bonding with their 5 TV show, building virtual relationships with a pop song singer or looking at pictures of loved ones.Troisi and Gabriel wondered if comfort food could have the same effect 6 making people think of their nearest and dearest.
“就我而言,食品在我的家庭一直是比较关注的问题”,Jordan Troisi如是说。他是布法罗大学的研究生并且是本次研究的首席作者。该研究出自于他与Shira Gabriel合作的一个研究项目。它关注的是可能影响人类情感的物质的东西。有些人用诸如绑定喜爱的电视节目,和流行音乐歌手建立虚拟的关系或浏览亲人的照片来排遣孤独。Troisi和Gabriel想知道爽心食品是否能通过使人们想到他们最亲近和最爱的人,同样达到排遣孤独的效果。
In one experiment, in order to make 7 feel lonely, the researchers had them write for six minutes about a fight with someone close to them.Others were given an emotionally neutral writing assignment. Then, some people in each 8 wrote about the experience of eating a comfort food and others wrote about eating a new food. 9 ,the researchers had participants 10 questions about their levels of loneliness. Writing about a fight with a close person made people feel lonely.
在一个实验中,为使参与者感觉孤独,研究者让他们用六分钟的时间描写一次与最亲近的人吵架的经历。而要求另外一些人写一个情感中性的作业。然后,每一组的一些人描写食用爽心食品的经历;而其他的人描写食用新食品的经历。最后,研究者让参与者书面回答关于孤独程度的问题。
But people who were generally 11 in their relationships would feel less lonely by writing about a comfort food."We have found that comfort foods are consistently associated with those close to us."says Troisi."Thinking about or consuming these foods later then serves as a reminder of those close others."In 12 essays on comfort food, many people wrote about the 13 of eating food with family and friends.
描写与亲人吵架的经历使人感到孤独。但是,一般来说,人们的关系若处于稳定状态,通过描写他们吃爽心食品的经历会排遣一些孤独感。Troisi说道:“我们已经得出这样的结论:爽心食品与我们的亲人密切相连,想一想或之后真正食用这种食品会提醒人们注意到他们的亲人。”在所有关于爽心食品的文章中,许多人都描述了与家人和朋友共同进餐的经历。
In another experiment, 14 chicken soup in the lab made people think more about relationships, but only if they considered chicken soup to be a comfort food.This was a question they had been asked long before the experiment, along with many other questions, so they wouldn’t remember it.
在另外一个实验中,在实验喝鸡汤令人想到和其他人的关系,但是,这只有在他们把鸡汤认为是爽心食品的时候才会发生。参与者被要求回答这个问题和许多其他问题是在这个实验很久以前,因此他们不会记得。
Throughout everyone’s daily lives they experience stress, often associated with our 15 with others," Troisi says."Comfort food Can be an easy remedy for loneliness.
“在每一个人的日常生活中,都会经历紧张,而这往往与人际关系有关,爽心食品可能是排遣孤独的便利食品”。Troisi如是说。
词汇:
mashed /mæʃt/ adj.被捣成糊浆的
macaroni/ macaroni/ n.通心粉
cheese / tʃi:z / n.奶酪
artery/ artery / n.动脉
assignment / ə'sainmənt / n.指定作业
reminder / reminder/ n.起提醒作用的东西
remedy /remedy/ n.治疗方法,药物
virtual/'və:tʃuəl/ adj.虚拟的
注释:
1.comfort food:爽心食品
2. graduate student:研究生
3. The University of Buffalo:布法罗大学,建校于1846 年,位于水牛城( Buffalo City) ,属于纽约州立大学,因此称为纽约州立大学水牛城分校。
4. lead author:首席作者
5. their nearest and dearest:他们最接近和最亲爱的人
6. levels of loneliness:孤独程度
7. only if: 只有(在……情况下)
8. Throughout everyone's daily lives:在每一个人的日常生活中。through 有“贯穿”的意思。
练习:
1.A but B if C though D while
2.A personality B movement C emotions D will
3.A privately B usefully C awfully D personally
4.A looked for B looked at C looked after D looked up
5.A favorite B trustful C boring D annoying
6.A with B on C by D at
7.A professors B participants C assistants D scientists
8.A group B class C section D part
9.A Previously B Formally C Initially D Finally
10.A remember B explain C rewrite D complete
11.A sad B secure C shy D angry
12.A your B our C his D their
13.A accident B harm C experience D model
14.A eating B exchanging C buying D keeping
15.A expressions B estimation C cooperation D connections
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