时间:2018-12-01 作者:英语课 分类:新东方背诵文选


英语课



Sleep is part of a person's daily activity cycle. There are several different stages of sleep, and they too occur in cycles. If you are an average sleeper 1, your sleep cycle is as follows. When you fist drift off into slumber 2, your eyes will roll about a bit, you temperature will drop slightly, your muscles will relax, and your breathing well slow and become quite regular. Your brain waves slow and become quite regular. Your brain waves slow down a bit too, with the alpha rhythm of rather fast waves 1 sleep. For the next half hour or so, as you relax more and more, you will drift down through stage 2 and stage 3 sleep. The lower your stage of sleep. slower your brain waves will be. Then about 40to 69 minutes after you lose consciousness 3 you will have reached the deepest sleep of all. Your brain will show the large slow waves that are known as the delta 4 rhythm. This is stage 4 sleep.

You do not remain at this deep fourth stage all night long, but instead about 80 minutes after you fall into slumber, your brain activity level will increase again slightly. The delta rhythm will disappear, to be replaced by the activity pattern of brain waves. Your eyes will begin to dart 5 around under your closed eyelids 6 as if you were looking at something occurring in front of you. This period of rapid eye movement lasts for some 8 to 15 minutes and is called REM sleep. It is during REM sleep period, your body will soon relax again, your breathing will slip gently back from stage 1 to stage 4 sleep----only to rise once again to the surface of near consciousness some 80 minutes later.

 



1 sleeper
n.睡眠者,卧车,卧铺
  • I usually go up to London on the sleeper. 我一般都乘卧车去伦敦。
  • But first he explained that he was a very heavy sleeper. 但首先他解释说自己睡觉很沉。
2 slumber
n.睡眠,沉睡状态
  • All the people in the hotels were wrapped in deep slumber.住在各旅馆里的人都已进入梦乡。
  • Don't wake him from his slumber because he needs the rest.不要把他从睡眠中唤醒,因为他需要休息。
3 consciousness
n.意识,觉悟,知觉
  • The experience helped to change her social consciousness.这种经验有助于改变她的社会意识。
  • He lost consciousness at the first whiff of ether.他一嗅到乙醚便失去了知觉。
4 delta
n.(流的)角洲
  • He has been to the delta of the Nile.他曾去过尼罗河三角洲。
  • The Nile divides at its mouth and forms a delta.尼罗河在河口分岔,形成了一个三角洲。
5 dart
v.猛冲,投掷;n.飞镖,猛冲
  • The child made a sudden dart across the road.那小孩突然冲过马路。
  • Markov died after being struck by a poison dart.马尔科夫身中毒镖而亡。
6 eyelids
n.眼睑( eyelid的名词复数 );眼睛也不眨一下;不露声色;面不改色
  • She was so tired, her eyelids were beginning to droop. 她太疲倦了,眼睑开始往下垂。
  • Her eyelids drooped as if she were on the verge of sleep. 她眼睑低垂好像快要睡着的样子。 来自《简明英汉词典》
学英语单词
1-Naphthaleneacetamide
a-ma
abstract non-singular curve
after-matches
ahhhs
air carbon-arc cutting
Anaphalis morrisonicola
arbs
arsenochromate
astronomical reckoning
auto-synergistic effect
bangors
bank trust department
bill payable by stated instalments
biological haze
Bodensee
branch control unit
bronchial respiration
brown colo(u)r
buschke-lowenstein giant condylomata
Carnivia
carped
circulatory vessel
contraria
coris gaimard
cristle
Cuban red macaw
deadlight weight
dissociated ammonia atmosphere
dolomite marble
Drosera burmanii
economic worth of project
ego-profective
electric traveling crane
electrostatic tube
emigrant from
europicamera
ex-patriot
exercist
fortran processor
G/CM2
galvanic electricity
general meristem
genotypic value
Glaphylopteridopsis
goes wrong
gossipy
Hantanch'ǒn
hormone rhysthm
i-hol
infrastructure for daily needs
interoperable systems project
kowan
legal rationality
liability coverage
llanura
mercury-pool cathode
messes with
nanna
operation mode after accident
orificium internUm isthmi
osophies
outbuilded
peril of sea
pertinant
petite degree
phytal
piles out
plane link
problem behavior graph
proved carcinogen
pure tone screen audiometer
r (reflectance)
raster blaster
receiving perforator
reinvokes
rfwf
s day
saturated felt
scorpaenodes scaber
semantic roles
sign posting
six ply tire
slate hanging
soybean mosaic
spumante
stoichiometry
suff.
swing state
test-pressings
triggered gaps
Trégunc
types up
unhive
venae canalis pterygoidei
vomiting in infancy caused by fright
weighted averages method
white-breaded
wild peaches
wire-fraud
zaheers