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
4-fluoro-2-nitroanisole
a digit switch
acanthomytilus imperatae
Acmoheliophyllum
admit daylight into someone
advertize
affirm to
automatic relay calculator
Baron Friedrich Wilhelm Ludolf Gerhard Augustin von Steuben
behavior chain
bill and coo
brood cannibalism
Calmiren
cavillatory
chianti
chlamys inaequivalvis
ciliary groove
clarite
code-switched
CoMFA
coml.
competent income
completely metrizable space
compressibility of fluid
connection of circuits
contact voltage regulator
courtin
Cousinia thomsonii
cutting piler
disk coupling
dry-gulchings
enlarging machine
examination of document
exponential factor
export sale
family court
feering
fire patrol
fixed routing per call
free air delivery
freight transport
Fresnel integrals
give it to 'em upon the bounce
Hammett-Zucker postulate
hashkeys
heat treatment line
hematimetry
humanely
Ifergane
impact tension
incompass
inconsistence of geometrical construction
Jena-glass
ju-yung
Kambali
LHX
mono-N-dealkyl-diisopyramide
mooring post
morphean
multiple converter
muriqui
noise budget
oleum pimentae
overflow piping system
pattern sensitive fault
personal realism
perviousnesses
pionic atom
Polevoye
preadolescence
programmist
pull-behind
pulse-amplitude-modulated sample
rayda
ready - to - eat food
rolypolinesses
sacro-iliac strain
salespattern
San Joaquin R.
sapientia
sebag
self-service analytics
septoic
Sintuism
Spittal Pond
standard transducer
strip-card reader
superhigh pressure sealing
synopticss
talk-radio
telescopic energy-absorbing steering transmission shaft
temporary repair siding
therm(a)esthesia
thumb war
two-input switch
two-leaf
uv-light
Vedeno
vehicle body coordinate system
viaducted
wipe out
wood-milling machine