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Lights Out at Bedtime（睡时关灯） There are plenty of good reasons to power up a personal desktop or laptop computer in the evening — writing e-mails, chatting on social networks or making purchases over the Internet, for instance. But various studies indicate that people who stare at a PC’s bright monitor shortly before going to bed probably sleep less soundly than they would otherwise because the light seriously affects their natural wake-sleep cycle. They havent proved it though, says Dieter Kunz, the teams director at Charites Psychiatric Clinic in St. Hedwigs Hospital in Berlin. 在晚上，一个人有很多充分的理由打开个人的台式电脑或手提电脑，比如说要写电子邮件，在社交网络上聊天，或者是网上购物。但是各种研究表明：在入睡前，看一会打开的电脑屏幕，这些人的睡眠质量要比那些不看的人可能差一些。因为电脑显示器所散发出来的光严重影响了人的自然醒睡周期。Dieter KunzDieter Kunz是这个研究团队的主管，他来自柏林圣海德薇格医院Similarly, exposure to just 10 minutes of normal bathroom lighting is enough to free the sleep hormone melatonin, which regulates peoples natural wake-sleep cycle and makes them sleepy at nightfall. ? 与此类似的是，在卧室中只需暴露在常规的灯光下十分钟，就足以抑制褪黑激素的释放。褪黑激素能让人的自然醒睡周期规律化，能让人在晚上昏昏欲睡。 Ten years ago, a team of British and American researchers detected a photo-pigment（光敏色素） in the human eye that signals to the body whether it is day or night, summer or winter. The photo-pigment is especially sensitive to blue light. The blue light more or less tells the body, Its daytime, be awake, Kunz says. Monitors have a mostly cold white light content and scientists suspect the photo-pigment may react similarly to it. So the longer people look into the bright light, the more awake they become - and then sleep poorly. Kunz讲到：“蓝光多少能告知我们的身体：‘现在是白天，要保持清醒啊。’” 显示器散发出来的光主要是冷白光（给人视觉上感觉偏蓝，译者注释）。科学家们怀疑光敏色素也会对它有反应。因此，人们在亮光下呆的时间越长，越能清醒，结果就睡眠差。 A lot of people have difficulty switching off in the evening. About half of the women in Germany and a quarter of the men sleep poorly. ? 但是有很多人在晚上都不想关掉开关。在德国，大约一半多的女性和四分之一的男性睡眠质量都不是太好。 Environmental factors are only one of the possible causes. Job stress as well as personal and health concerns are also the main reasons