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
acetoacetate decarboxylase
Acrothele
advance buying
aging hardening
air-ground radiotelephone
alan bartlett shepard jr.s
alekseevich
argument register
automatic synthesizer
azadirone
background reflectance
beatons
bees wax
belgrades
bombinates
bucket link
calophyllum inophyllum kernel oil
coarctation aorta postductal
cooperative marketing act
courts of chancery
craines
Csor
cyclopropaphanes
data-only
deck bucket
deoxidizes
determination of volume of tree
earth short-circuit current
EDI agreement
electronic plane-table
elmen
end-of-transmission-block character
error condition (in calculators)
even odd
extension theorems
external orifices
extra classes
family phalaropidaes
family practices
figured fabric
free area / paid area
free run wine
gamma-exposure chamber
genetic transplantation
glass wool braided tube
grandidieri
hand-held camera
hep B
HNoMS
i fear not
intimate relationships
inverse indicator
involute motion
Khorlovo
Laurelville
legassick
lock-keeper
macrobending
mardier
markham
Mateke Hills
maximum performance speed
methyl-atropine-bromide
micro-plasma arc welding
microstamps
mill tail
Mucor ramosus
murexide (ammonium purpurate)
Myodocopa
neutrocytopenia
nickel spatula
official procurator
on shore current
pattern practice
polyostotic fibrous dysplasias
precision pressure gauge
proper integral
quasi-stable adjustment
redoer
reflective-type display
self-scanned solid-state image sensor
semi-fitted
shear resistance
silicate-facies iron formation
simultaneous telegraphy and telephony
sled-type bow
soft law
spearhead attack
sphenoidal hemihedral class
stately-home
stight
stop ... in its tracks
Teterville
thornby
thysanoptera
tinbelt
underhung window
underwater television system
urbanizings
us gasoline
Vidian vein
wehrkamp