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ted演讲稿 我们为什么要睡眠英文　　欢迎来到，以下是聘才本人为大家搜索整理的，欢迎大家阅读。ted演讲稿 我们为什么要睡眠英文　　简介：一生中，我们有三分之一的时间都在睡眠中度过。关于睡眠，你又了解多少?睡眠专家Russell Foster为我们解答为什么要睡觉，以及睡眠对健康的影响。　　What Id like to do today is talk about one of my favorite subjects, and that is the neuroscience of sleep.　　Now, there is a sound -- (Alarm clock) -- aah, it worked -- a sound that is desperately, desperately familiar to most of us, and of course its the sound of the alarm clock. And what that truly ghastly, awful sound does is stop the single most important behavioral experience that we have, and thats sleep. If youre an average sort of person, 36 percent of your life will be spent asleep, which means that if you live to 90, then 32 years will have been spent entirely asleep.　　Now what that 32 years is telling us is that sleep at some level is important. And yet, for most of us, we dont give sleep a second thought. We throw it away. We really just dont think about sleep. And so what Id like to do today is change your views, change your ideas and your thoughts about sleep. And the journey that I want to take you on, we need to start by going back in time.　　Enjoy the honey-heavy dew of slumber. Any ideas who said that? Shakespeares Julius Caesar. Yes, let me give you a few more quotes. O sleep, O gentle sleep, natures soft nurse, how have I frighted thee? Shakespeare again, from -- I wont say it -- the Scottish play.　(Laughter) From the same time: Sleep is the golden chain that ties health and our bodies together. Extremely prophetic, by Thomas Dekker, another Elizabethan dramatist.　　But if we jump forward 400 years, the tone about sleep changes somewhat. This is from Thomas Edison, from the beginning of the 20th century. Sleep is a criminal waste of time and a heritage from our cave days. Bang. (Laughter) And if we also jump into the 1980s, some of you may remember that Margaret Thatcher was reported to have said, Sleep is for wimps. And of course the infamous -- what was his name? -- the infamous Gordon Gekko from Wall St