RobynSteinDeluca_2014X经前症候群的好消息.docxVIP

1.How many people here have heard of PMS? 有多少人听过经前症候群 (PMS)？2.Everybody, right? 大家都听过，对吧？3.Everyone knows that women go a little crazy right before they get their period, that the menstrual cycle throws them onto an inevitable hormonal roller coaster 大家都知道女人在月经来之前 会有点发神经， 月经周期让她们坐上无可避免的荷尔蒙导致的4.of irrationality and irritability. 不理性与易怒的云霄飞车。5.Theres a general assumption that fluctuations in reproductive hormones cause extreme emotions and that the great majority of women are affected by this. 有个很普遍的说法， 说生殖荷尔蒙波动会造成极端的情绪， 而且绝大部分妇女都受此影响。6.Well, I am here to tell you that scientific evidence says neither of those assumptions is true. 嗯，我在这里告诉大家科学证据显示 这两个说法都不对。7.Im here to give you the good news about PMS. 我要在这里宣布经前症候群的好消息。8.But first, lets take a look at how firmly the idea of PMS is entrenched in American culture. 但首先来看一下经前症候群这个说法 有多么深植于美国文化。9.If you examine newspaper or magazine articles, youll see how widely assumed it is that everyone gets PMS. 如果你檢视报章杂志的文章， 你就会发现大家都以为每个人都有经前症候群。10.In an article in the magazine Redbook titled You: PMS Free, 女性杂志《红书》有篇文章标题为：「妳！从经前症候群释放吧！」11.readers were informed that between 80 to 90 percent of women suffer from PMS. 文章告诉读者约有八九成的女性为经前症候群所苦。12.L.A. Muscle magazine warned its readers that 40 to 50 percent of women suffer from PMS, and that it plays a major role in womens mental and physical health, 伦敦保健食品杂志则警告读者 有四到五成的妇女为经前症候群所苦， 而且这还在女性的身心健康扮演重要角色，13.and a couple of years ago, even the Wall Street Journal ran an article on calcium as a treatment for PMS, asking its female readers, 而在几年前，甚至华尔街日报 也有篇文章在谈钙质如何治疗经前症候群， 并这样问其女性读者，14.Do you turn into a witch every month? 「妳每个月都变成巫婆吗？」15.From all these articles, you would think there must be a mountain of research verifying the widespread nature of PMS. 有这么多文章你可能会想，一定有如山般铁证 能验证经前症候群的普遍性。16.However, after five decades of research, theres no strong consensus on the definition, the cause, the treatment, or even the existence of PMS.