时间:2018-12-11 作者:英语课 分类:万花筒2009年


英语课

Japan's longevity 1 and affluence 2 have resulted in a huge market for products that claim to re-energize the brain. Nintendo's brain training games tested players' speed and accuracy with word, number and memory puzzles, so attracted many older gamers concerned about nerve degenerative diseases, like Parkinson's and Alzheimer's.


Now studies haven't been able to link braining programs to a slow progression of Alzheimer's, but here is something interesting. Recent studies suggest Nintendo's Wii Fit games can help lose symptoms of Parkinson's, a disease which impairs 3 motor skills. The game’s console simulates sports like soccer, there's a category which tests your balance with sports like ski slalom and ski jump. hula hoop 4 challenges you aerobically 5 and a strength training category has you doing push-ups and side planks 6 with the virtual personal trainer. And doctors at Medical College of Georgia, the United States piloted the eight-week-study. 20 Parkinson's suffers spend an hour on the Wii three times a week for four weeks.


They play games requiring bilateral 7 movement, balance at a pretty fast pace. Half way through the study, scientists found a number of the patients could defeat their opponent in the first round and they showed significant improvement in movement, fine motor skills and energy levels. The games require visual perception, eye-hand coordination 8 and sequence movement. So the scientists consider it a treatment tool in occupational therapy.



1 longevity
n.长命;长寿
  • Good habits promote longevity.良好的习惯能增长寿命。
  • Human longevity runs in families.人类的长寿具有家族遗传性。
2 affluence
n.充裕,富足
  • Their affluence is more apparent than real.他们的富有是虚有其表。
  • There is a lot of affluence in this part of the state because it has many businesses.这个州的这一部分相当富有,因为它有很多商行。
3 impairs
v.损害,削弱( impair的第三人称单数 )
  • Smoking impairs our health. 吸烟会损害我们的健康。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • Almost anything that impairs liver function can cause hepatitis. 任何有损于肝功能的因素,几乎都会引起肝炎。 来自辞典例句
4 hoop
n.(篮球)篮圈,篮
  • The child was rolling a hoop.那个孩子在滚铁环。
  • The wooden tub is fitted with the iron hoop.木盆都用铁箍箍紧。
5 aerobically
adv.aerobic(需氧的,需气的,生存于氧气中的)的变形
  • Nitrate was aerobically reduced to nitrite. 硝酸盐去氧后转化为亚硝酸盐。 来自互联网
  • The main thing is to pick something you can aerobically, and do it! 重要的是挑个有氧活动,并且去做! 来自互联网
6 planks
(厚)木板( plank的名词复数 ); 政纲条目,政策要点
  • The house was built solidly of rough wooden planks. 这房子是用粗木板牢固地建造的。
  • We sawed the log into planks. 我们把木头锯成了木板。
7 bilateral
adj.双方的,两边的,两侧的
  • They have been negotiating a bilateral trade deal.他们一直在商谈一项双边贸易协定。
  • There was a wide gap between the views of the two statesmen on the bilateral cooperation.对双方合作的问题,两位政治家各自所持的看法差距甚大。
8 coordination
n.协调,协作
  • Gymnastics is a sport that requires a considerable level of coordination.体操是一项需要高协调性的运动。
  • The perfect coordination of the dancers and singers added a rhythmic charm to the performance.舞蹈演员和歌手们配合得很好,使演出更具魅力。
学英语单词
acoustic wind tunnel
angle planing
area of propeller disc
associated entertainment
automatic message accounting
auximone
band-sawn
bethi
birth injury of newborn
boidaes
brace summer
brake-shoe clearance
bridal registry
broadleys
buoy installation
business system
carrier synchronization
catch jesse
climax pattern hypothesis
closed-source
coding schedule
coolant separator
derringer
discrete state material
double comb
elephant folio
Eurya
fcuk
flying phalangers
four-vidicon camera
general concept
glutelin
golden fairy lanterns
grandiloquism
gravity-wave
guyau
habeshaw
high-level network service
human-interest
hypothalamia sulcus
image response
immunopurifications
iron scraper
isothiocyano group
jenkem
jossa
kaull
kinescope bulb
Koumi
least index of refraction
market breadth
mary-catherine
maskant balance
maximumlikelihood estimator
Microsporum mansoni
mode of resconance
mokoshes
mullock lodes
myochrysine
neopolarography
newsworthily
non-virtual hosting
ocelligerus
oil sludge tank
one irons
open type double action crank press
organic nonlinear optical material
original twist
Outfolding
over-knavery
over-weak
overlap propellers
pain-relief
parigal
path cost
photocathode sensitivity
photographic objective
pilodius areolatus
Pomona Park
Private Ryan
Procedure of Service by Publication
Qurayyāt Sālim
request for admissions
royalizing
Saudhanes
Schrammel
secant relation
spellcheck
Steensel
switchover
three-vector
tip-up (seat)
train graph
trial condition
tusk and tenon joint
unwarie
water exhaust conditioner
white color
xanthoastrocytoma
Yucca brevifolia
zero pour point oil
zinc fluorosilicate