时间:2018-12-27 作者:英语课 分类:英语时差8,16


英语课
Many people believe that hours' worth of events and activities can be dreamed about in a matter seconds. Despite this common belief about how we dream, time in dreams actually is not compressed. If you dream of an activity that would take five minutes in waking life, you probably dream about it for a full five minutes. Dream and sleep researcher William Dement conducted two studies that demonstrated that dream time was similar to real time. Because dreamers' eyes move under their eyelids 1 very rapidly while they are dreaming, Dement was able to monitor sleepers 2 and record the length of their dreams by observing their rapid eye movement. After recording 3 this information, Dement would wake dreamers and have them write down a description of their most recent dream. He assumed that longer dreams would take more words to describe than shorter ones. When he compared the number of words in each dream report with the number of minutes the dream had occurred, he found that the longer the dream, the more words the dreamer used to describe it. In another related experiment, Dement woke sleepers while they were dreaming and asked them how long they perceived their most recent dream had taken. Eighty-three percent of the time they perceived correctly whether their dreams had been going on for a long time or for a short time. With these experiments, Dement concluded that time in dreams is nearly identical to time in waking life. So the next time in your dreams you slay 4 a dragon or fly from your house to your workplace, the amount of time it seemed to take is probably just about how long it actually took to dream it.

1 eyelids
n.眼睑( eyelid的名词复数 );眼睛也不眨一下;不露声色;面不改色
  • She was so tired, her eyelids were beginning to droop. 她太疲倦了,眼睑开始往下垂。
  • Her eyelids drooped as if she were on the verge of sleep. 她眼睑低垂好像快要睡着的样子。 来自《简明英汉词典》
2 sleepers
n.卧铺(通常以复数形式出现);卧车( sleeper的名词复数 );轨枕;睡觉(呈某种状态)的人;小耳环
  • He trod quietly so as not to disturb the sleepers. 他轻移脚步,以免吵醒睡着的人。 来自辞典例句
  • The nurse was out, and we two sleepers were alone. 保姆出去了,只剩下我们两个瞌睡虫。 来自辞典例句
3 recording
n.录音,记录
  • How long will the recording of the song take?录下这首歌得花多少时间?
  • I want to play you a recording of the rehearsal.我想给你放一下彩排的录像。
4 slay
v.杀死,宰杀,杀戮
  • He intended to slay his father's murderer.他意图杀死杀父仇人。
  • She has ordered me to slay you.她命令我把你杀了。
学英语单词
.hlp
aftersounds
alternating-current main
analytic hierarchy process
anti-recession program
arcuate diaphragmatic ligament
argyrose
asymmetric branch
auto de fe
beam-broadening
beanpole family
berengers
bicameralist, bicamerist
biologically accumulated elements
Biševo
blade carrier
Boeck's itch
brughas
brunost
catastrophe model
caws-
cebu magueys
charlestowns
chemically compounded fertilizers
chronic radiation hazard
Claidh, Loch
clamure
comprehensibleness
cost record
Cyanella
deer hunt
Diaporthaceae
dispume
drum-cam
effective rate of interest
encryption technique
entrance and exits
equilibrium compliance
external-bruning ram
flow out earth
font, outline
forage clipper
freeboard depth ratio
fundamental characteristics
gastrodermis
gloude
graminaceous plants
heldreichii
hernia cordis
Hira-jima
hitch one's horses together
horn poppy
Indocalamus chishuiensis
insurance adjusters
intaminate
intensating
issued capital
Jack Dee
Kalitva
lanicemine
maib
micropore film
milk claw
mobile information device profile
motion of translation
near viewing
nonprofessorial
not unlike
optimal course of action
oral plate
ozone fading
pandanaceae
papaverine
part names
percentage function
phase sequence reversal relay
phenocopy (goldschmidt 1935)
plug lap joint
poster-style format
preppie
process combusion
re-scheduled
Sawol
scoparone
screwtap
standard voltage oscillator
steam-saturation temperature
style of pronunciation
suction and force pump
syllable articulation
telecommunicator
thos
tribo
triscuits
twin (twinning crystal)
Utirik Atoll
viscosity-temperature dependency
weber r.
well-wove
with one's eyes shut
xenon reactivity
yaw-checking anchor