职称英语综合类阅读判断第八篇Easy Learning逐句翻译.docxVIP

容易的学习 Easy Learning Students should be jealous. 学生们应该感到嫉妒。 Not only do babies get to doze their days away, but they’ve also mastered the fine art of learning in their sleep. 婴儿们不仅整天睡觉， 而且他们还能在睡眠中掌握学习的艺术。 By the time babies are a year old they can recognize a lot of sounds and even simple words. 婴儿到了一周岁时，他们可以识别出很多音，甚至一些简单的单词。 Marie Cheour at the University of Turku in Finland suspected that they might progress this fast because they learn language while they sleep as well as when they are awake. 芬兰Turku大学的MarieCheour怀疑他们可以进步这么快的 原因可能是他们不仅在醒着时学语言，而且在睡觉时也在学语言。 　　 To test the theory, 为了检验这个理论，Cheour and her colleagues studied 45 newborn babies in the first few days of their lives. Cheour和她的同事们在45个新生儿生命最初的几天里对他们进行了研究。 They exposed 接触all the infants to an hour of Finnish vowel sounds ---one that sounds like “oo”, another like “ee” 他们让所有的婴儿听一个小时的芬兰元音-----其中一个类似“00”，另一个类似“ee”， and a third boundary vowel peculiar特有的 to Finnish and similar languages that sounds like something in between. 还有一个芬兰语和类似语言特有的边界音，听起来像两者之间的声音。 EEG recordings of the infant’s brains before and after the session showed that the newborns could not distinguish the sounds. 在此之前和之后的婴儿大脑的脑电图记录显示新生儿不能辨别这几个声音。　 Fifteen of the babies then went back with their mothers, while the rest were split into two sleep-study groups. 然后，其中15个婴儿随他们的母亲回去了， 而另外的婴儿被分成两个睡觉时学习小组。One group was exposed throughout their night-time sleeping hours to the same three vowels, 一个组的婴儿夜间睡觉的时候还放着同样第三个元音的录音， 容 易 区 分 while the others listened to other, easier-to-distinguish vowel sounds. 而其他的婴儿只听其他的较容易区分的元音。 When tested in the morning, and again in the evening, the babies who’d heard the tricky难识别 boundary vowel all night showed brainwave activity indicating that they could now recognise this new sound. 早晚各进行了测试之后， 那些整晚都在听难识别的边界音的婴儿显示出的脑波活动说明他们现在能够识别这个新声音了。They could identify the sound even when its pitch音调 was changed, 甚至当这个音的音调变化时他们仍能够识别出来， while none of the other babies could pick up the boundary vowel at all. 而其他的婴儿没有一个能识别这个边界音的。