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科技英语读写-方法与实践-Unit4explaningamechanismwhywesleepabiologicalperspective
科技英语读写——方法与实践
Reading your way into technical writing
Unit 4 explaning a mechanism: why we sleep :a biological perspective
Sentence Study（Translation）
The subject is not love, but sleep. Shakespeares Macbeth said it “knits up the raveled sleeve of care” and was the balm of hurt minds, great natures second course, chief nourisher in lifes feast. 本主题所谈论的爱情而是睡眠莎士比亚说那是和那是Cervantess Sancho Panza sang its praises as the food that cures all hunger, the water that quenches all thirst, the fire that warms the cold, the cold that cools the heart... the balancing weight that levels the shepherd with the king, and the simple with the wise. (para.1)
塞万提斯作品中的人物桑丘·潘沙赞歌说道That response, however, dodges the issue and is the equivalent of saying that you eat to keep from being hungry or breathe to ward off feelings of suffocation. (para.2)
然后，这个答案回避了问题本身，如同说吃饭是为了充饥，呼吸是为了免除窒息一样。
That said, sleep research --- less than a century old as a focused field of scientific inquiry --- has generated enough insight for investigators to at least make reasonable proposals about the function of the somnolent state that consumes one third of our lives. (para.3)
也就是说人们对睡眠的研究,在不到一个世纪以来将之作为一个重要的研究领域已经进行了充分的探究,至少对于这一占去人生三分之一的睡眠的功能提出了合理的解释.In 1953 sleep research pioneer Nathaniel Kleitman and his student Eugene Aserinsky of the University of Chicago decisively overthrew the commonly held belief that sleep was simply a cessation of most brain activity. (para.4)
睡眠研究的先行者芝加哥大学的纳撒尼尔·克莱蒙德与他的学生尢金在1953年果断地推翻以往认为睡眠是大部分大脑活动的简单停止的观点。
They discovered that sleep was marked by periods of rapid eye movement, commonly now known as REM sleep. (para.4)
他们发现睡眠是以快速动眼期开始的活动现在通常称作快速动眼期睡眠All terrestrial mammals have been examined exhibit REM sleep, which alternates with non-REM sleep, also called quiet sleep, in a regular cycle. (para.4)
所有的陆生哺乳动物它与一种叫做静睡眠的非快速动眼期轮换出现,并有规律地循环?
More recently, the field has made its greatest progress in characterizing the nature of sleep at the level of nerve cells (neurons) in the brain. (para
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