时间:2019-02-16 作者:英语课 分类:英语听力广播—Listening


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We’ve all been bored from time to time. Sometimes, when we’re really at loose ends, we might even say we’re “bored to death” or “so bored I could die!”
We don’t really mean it, of course.
But according to one study, it may be true. That is, it seems possible literally 1 to be bored to death. Researchers in England looked at surveys done in the mid 2 1980s–several thousand questionnaires filled out by London civil servants about their jobs.
The researchers found that those who’d said that in the previous month they were bored at work were more than twice as likely as other workers to die of a heart problem over the follow up period. Workers who claimed to be interested in their jobs were less likely to die prematurely 3.
Now, this doesn’t mean that feeling bored every once in a while will kill you. We’re talking about chronic 4 boredom 5, as in being bored all the time.
And it’s not necessarily boredom itself that’s deadly. Most probably, according to the study, it’s the fact that being bored often leads to unhealthy habits such smoking, overeating, drinking, and abusing drugs.
Other studies have linked boredom and depression–a disease known often to lead to poor health.
Does this mean that being engaged and interested–in other words, the opposite of bored–leads to better health?
Maybe. If not being bored means being physically 6 active and adopting good dietary and exercise habits, then it certainly can’t hurt.

adv.照字面意义,逐字地;确实
  • He translated the passage literally.他逐字逐句地翻译这段文字。
  • Sometimes she would not sit down till she was literally faint.有时候,她不走到真正要昏厥了,决不肯坐下来。
adj.中央的,中间的
  • Our mid-term exam is pending.我们就要期中考试了。
  • He switched over to teaching in mid-career.他在而立之年转入教学工作。
adv.过早地,贸然地
  • She was born prematurely with poorly developed lungs. 她早产,肺部未发育健全。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • His hair was prematurely white, but his busy eyebrows were still jet-black. 他的头发已经白了,不过两道浓眉还是乌黑乌黑的。 来自辞典例句
adj.(疾病)长期未愈的,慢性的;极坏的
  • Famine differs from chronic malnutrition.饥荒不同于慢性营养不良。
  • Chronic poisoning may lead to death from inanition.慢性中毒也可能由虚弱导致死亡。
n.厌烦,厌倦,乏味,无聊
  • Unemployment can drive you mad with boredom.失业会让你无聊得发疯。
  • A walkman can relieve the boredom of running.跑步时带着随身听就不那么乏味了。
adj.物质上,体格上,身体上,按自然规律
  • He was out of sorts physically,as well as disordered mentally.他浑身不舒服,心绪也很乱。
  • Every time I think about it I feel physically sick.一想起那件事我就感到极恶心。
学英语单词
airscrew turbine system
allworth
amputators
angulization
anhydrocurcolone
antispiritualism
assembler command
basement battler
C battery substation
camoed
carcinophora kawakamii
centrifugal spinning
change the original setence
complementary pollination
continuons-form cards
denaturalized
dequantize
distance to closest point of approach
divertised
dragon figurehead
dryass
exchange quotation
exponential returns
first fuel inventory
friendlyish
great mothers
Henoch-Schonlein purpura
hereditist
hi pot, meet kettle
hidden traitor
hollow derrick
hydathodes
Hēt'o
icosyl
inclined roof heater
intermorph
island festoon
james
k.s
Kurt Waldheim
kwe
Lactobacillus bulgaricus
latent heat of vapo(u)rization
legally
lgth.
local pressure loss
looksism
macroemulsion
magid
maniformis
mineral rock
multifurcation
multipacket message
myxozoans
nitrile oxide
Noncurrent liability
Nubia, L.
object repository
one-nation
Orinoco, R.
PC chipset
phototube relay
poor insulation
potentilla supina l.
precoordinate index
primary copy locking
property tax demand note
put sth away
Rami corporis amygdaloidei
reaction isochore
reductional separation
reedbucks
repetitive addition
right-handed screw
road width
scrat
secret garden
Selenoyeast
single level bill
sjb
slection
slope failure
slow breaking emulsified bitumen
solar cell module
spelted
states-of-the-nation
Stuge-Weber syndrome
sub-cloud car
subboundary
Synchondrosis sphenoethmoidalis
taxational
Tenniyëyoki (Tenniöjoki)
Tioman Island
to bandy sth about
transloading equipment
Tricentrus
troop
ugolinis
us web
variable-frequency
volume of trade
Wera