时间:2018-12-24 作者:英语课 分类:Scientific American(十一)月


英语课

 You walk into the kitchento grab a … wait, why are you coming here again? A new study suggests that yourbrain is not to blame for your confusion about you are doing in the new room,the doorway 1 is. The work in the Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology 2.University of Notre Dame 3 researchers had subject perform memory tasks, such as rememberingthe colors of blocks in different boxes. The volunteers had to do the tasks afterwalking across a room or after walking the same distance through a doorway intoa second room and they did much worse after going through the doorway. And youcan’t blame the new room. Their memories still deteriorated 4 if after passing aseries of doorways 5 they went back in the original room. The researchers say thatwhen you pass through a doorway, your mind compartmentalize your actions into separatedepisode. Having move into a new episode, the brain archive the previous one,making it less available for access. It’s as if you slam a mental door betweenwhat you knew and…what was I saying?



1 doorway
n.门口,(喻)入门;门路,途径
  • They huddled in the shop doorway to shelter from the rain.他们挤在商店门口躲雨。
  • Mary suddenly appeared in the doorway.玛丽突然出现在门口。
2 psychology
n.心理,心理学,心理状态
  • She has a background in child psychology.她受过儿童心理学的教育。
  • He studied philosophy and psychology at Cambridge.他在剑桥大学学习哲学和心理学。
3 dame
n.女士
  • The dame tell of her experience as a wife and mother.这位年长妇女讲了她作妻子和母亲的经验。
  • If you stick around,you'll have to marry that dame.如果再逗留多一会,你就要跟那个夫人结婚。
4 deteriorated
恶化,变坏( deteriorate的过去式和过去分词 )
  • Her health deteriorated rapidly, and she died shortly afterwards. 她的健康状况急剧恶化,不久便去世了。
  • His condition steadily deteriorated. 他的病情恶化,日甚一日。
5 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
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