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你是否曾為失眠、習(xí)慣性熬夜感到焦慮？隨著社會(huì)健康意識(shí)的增強(qiáng)，追求高質(zhì)量睡眠逐漸成為人們的共識(shí)，褪黑素、睡眠監(jiān)控手環(huán)、白噪音等一系列解決睡眠問(wèn)題的產(chǎn)品和服務(wù)也順勢(shì)而起，愈發(fā)受人追捧。追求“更完美的睡眠”會(huì)讓我們睡得更好嗎？做不到早睡早起，總是睡不夠8小時(shí)，真的要“治”嗎？一起進(jìn)入今天的講解。
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本篇課程首發(fā)于2021年11月24日
英文原文
We must stop trying to excel at sleep
By Henry Mance
Daily life has its satisfactions. But do any really compare to the joy of going to sleep? That moment when the clutter of 21st-century existence disappears into the non-judgmental embrace of a mattress?
Somehow we have pushed this pleasure to the back of the queue. A third of American adults report sleeping less than the recommended seven hours. Many of us feel under-rested. Then there are those who can't sleep when they try.
Stressing ourselves out about a lack of sleep can aggravate the problem. In his book Overcoming Insomnia and Sleep Problems, Oxford professor Colin Espie writes about "orthosomnia", where people are so focused with sleeping well that they become too anxious to do so. The marketing of sleeping aids adds to this.
Espie says we each have a sleep pattern that we figure out through trial and error. Genetically, some humans are larks and some are owls; the larks may just have better cardiovascular health. For an owl to try to fight their natural schedule, and sleep earlier, wouldn't necessarily help.
Once the macho urged us to sleep when we were dead. Now the enlightened tell us to sleep or we'll be dead. Nowadays sleep is becoming something that people try to excel at. About that I'm unconvinced. A good night's sleep is a profound pleasure. As far as possible, it should also remain a simple one.
生詞好句
1.excel
英 [?k?sel, ?k?sel] 美 [?k?sel, ?k?sel]
v. 精通，擅長(zhǎng)（to be very good at doing something）
拓展:
As a child, he excelled at classical Chinese.
這孩子小時(shí)候就擅長(zhǎng)文言文。
The team excels at turning defense into attack.
這支球隊(duì)擅于打防守反擊。
2.satisfactions
英 [s?t?s?f?k?nz] 美 [s?t?s?f?k?nz]
n.（復(fù)數(shù)形式）讓人快樂(lè)、滿意的事情
3.compare to something
跟......做比較
拓展:
Do not compare yourself to others.
不要跟別人攀比。
4.clutter
英 [?kl?t?] 美 [?kl?t?r]
n. 雜亂無(wú)章（mess）
拓展:
the clutter on the desk 辦公桌上的雜物
She prefers her countertops to be clear of clutter.
她喜歡廚房臺(tái)面井然有序。
5.push...to the back of the queue
把......排到最末
拓展:
They are so into work that their families have been pushed to the back of the queue.
他們太投入工作，反而忽略了家庭。
6.recommended
英 [rek??mend?d] 美 [rek??mend?d]
adj. 被推薦的，被推崇的
拓展:
Though twenty years old, the Harry Porter movies are highly recommended.
雖然已經(jīng)上映了20年，哈利波特電影仍然備受推崇。
7.under-rested
英 [?nd? ?rest?d] 美 [?nd?r ?rest?d]
adj. 休息不足的
拓展:
under+過(guò)去分詞，表示......不足（not enough）
例如：
understated adj. 低調(diào)樸素的
undercooked adj. 沒(méi)煮熟的
8.stress oneself out
使某人過(guò)度勞累，過(guò)度緊張
9.aggravate
英 [??ɡr?ve?t] 美 [??ɡr?ve?t]
v. 變嚴(yán)重，惡化（to make an illness or a bad or unpleasant situation worse）
拓展:
aggravate vs. worsen
都是"變嚴(yán)重"的意思，但aggravate比worsen多了一層"使得本來(lái)就有問(wèn)題的事情變得更糟糕"的意思。
10.orthosomnia
英 [??θ??s?mni?] 美 [??rθo??sɑ?mni?]
n. 完美睡眠主義癥
拓展:
構(gòu)詞法：
-somnia有"睡眠"的意思；
當(dāng)加上否定前綴 in-構(gòu)成insomnia，表示"不眠、失眠"；
加上來(lái)自古希臘語(yǔ)表示"正統(tǒng)的、正確的"ortho-前綴，就構(gòu)成了orthosomnia，表示"正統(tǒng)的睡眠"，也就是"完美睡眠主義"。
11.be focused with
糾結(jié)于某事
12.trial and error
試錯(cuò)
13.not necessarily
未必
拓展:
That’s not necessarily bad.
那未必是一件壞事。
Social media isn’t necessarily the cause.
社交媒體未必是原因。
14.the macho
充滿斗志的人
拓展:
macho
UK /?m?t???/ US /?mɑ?t?o?/
adj.（本義）陽(yáng)剛的，男子氣概的，大男子主義的（be masculine in an overly assertive or aggressive way）
macho比masculine更堅(jiān)定自負(fù)、冒進(jìn)
15.the enlightened
開(kāi)明人士
拓展:
enlightened
UK /?n?la?tnd/ US /?n?la?tnd/
adj. 開(kāi)明的，開(kāi)悟的
