时间:2018-12-24 作者:英语课 分类:Scientific American(五)月


英语课

   People with anorexia 1 see themselves as heavier than they actually are. But does this distorted selfimage inform unconscious behavior? Scientists are opening doors to find out. Literally 2, body image and doorways 3 are her linked because the ability to navigate 4 your environment depends on the sense how the body exists in space. For example, your unconscious perception of your body's width makes you automatically swivel your shouders to squeeze through a narrow opening. To test this kind of body perception in anorexic patients, researchers recruited 39 women, 19 with anorexia and 20 without the condition. All 39 women walked through portals of varying sizes while performing a distracting memorization task. The non-anorexics began turning their shoulders to edge through when openings got down to 25% wider than their bodies. But the anorexics, perceiving themselves as large, started turning when the openings were 40% wider than their bodies. The study is in the journal PLoS ONE. The researchers say that body image distortion thus affects not just perception but action, which could have implications for treatments.



1 anorexia
n.厌食症
  • Anorexia can creep up on young girls when they least expect it.年轻女子可能在最没有防备的情況下患上厌食症。
  • Anorexia is a common eating disorder.厌食是一种常见的饮食紊乱症。
2 literally
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。
3 doorways
n.门口,门道( doorway的名词复数 )
  • The houses belched people; the doorways spewed out children. 从各家茅屋里涌出一堆一堆的人群,从门口蹦出一群一群小孩。 来自辞典例句
  • He rambled under the walls and doorways. 他就顺着墙根和门楼遛跶。 来自辞典例句
4 navigate
v.航行,飞行;导航,领航
  • He was the first man to navigate the Atlantic by air.他是第一个飞越大西洋的人。
  • Such boats can navigate on the Nile.这种船可以在尼罗河上航行。
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acid-carbonate
al qahirah (cairo)
Alemli
angeloylfuranofukinol
backstairs intrigue
barterable
benippled
beweapons
bus insurance
charabanc
childhood aphasia
CLHE
cold food pantry
colocalisation
common boneset
common licence
corrupcion
cross countries
cross-country skiing
crystal vessel
cupric fluoride
Diksonskiy Rayon
distributing valve board
double-beam oscillograph
drawbeam
dry foot
EAggEC
electroelute
endodermoreaction
enjoyee
eschewal
extension reflex
ezekiass
filter expresser
Flying Scotsman
gadolinia
genus sennas
gergon
get sth out
good natures
Harmonized Description Coding System
highwater marking
hirings
hot-bath quench aging
i was wondering
lame-ducks
laughed my ass off
liquid monomer plastic
maids
Manx cat
melanoderma toxica
Microzamia
modern cybernetics
mountain phlox
negative going
nonlead
octopodes
papillary epithelioma
perichareia
periodic merit rating
phenylmercuric hydroxide
place-brick
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PNID
polydystrophic
pyrometer lamp
radionavigation tailbuoy
robbo
rock craft
rossmen
scrapped vessel
scutle
secondary mouth
see no evil
severe burn
shaw
single-end user
slobbers
small particle contamination
smp (scanning microscope photometer)
son vertex
specialized capital goods
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start-finish
Stoby
stream of people
sulfidize
sun yat - sen university
test ring
tetragnatha ceylonica
thermal conversion
thiazidelike
tonify the kidney to arrest spontaneous emission
toralizumab
tuberculosis of scrotum
tuberculous bacillemia
unemolumented
upper middle class
vitrics
Weston standard cadmium cell
what's your problem
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