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2 ．Good balance is mostly in your head 摔跤背后的秘密 IF Mickey Mouse slips on a banana peel on 如果电视里的米老鼠踩到香蕉皮上摔 TV, viewers laugh. But for ordinary people, 了一跤，会令观众开怀大笑。但是对 falling is not amusing. If you trip on a curb 于普通人，摔跤却并不好玩。如果你 or fall off your bike, you can take days to 走在马路沿上摔倒了，或者从自行车 heal. For old people, the result of a fall can 上摔下去，可能要过几天才能恢复过 be worse. 来。对老人来说，摔跤的后果更加严 重。 Scientists at the University of 美国匹兹堡大学的科学家想知道 Pittsburgh, US, wanted to know why some 的是，为什么有些人比其他人更容易 people are more likely to fall than others. 摔跤。 The researchers found that balance 研究人员发现，平衡不仅仅是把 involves more than planting your feet on the 脚平稳的放在地上站直身体。你的大 ground and standing tall. Your brain keeps 脑根据眼睛、内耳传输的信息以及脚 your sense of balance with inputs from your 和腿的感觉，保持身体的平衡感。如 eyes and inner ears and sensations from 果其中任何一部分出了问题，你可能 your feet and legs. If something goes wrong 就会摔倒。人们老了之后，感觉变得 with any of these, youre likely to fall. People 不灵敏，因此更容易摔跤。 tend to fall more often as they grow older because their senses are less acute. State of mind is important too. The 心理状态也很重要。研究表明， research shows that when people know 当人们知道自己在光滑的地面行走 theyre walking on a slippery surface, they 时，就会放慢脚步，小心翼翼行走。 shorten their pace and walk with flatter feet. 结果，他们反而很少会摔倒。 As a result, they fall less often. We actually make people slip and fall, 研究人员马克 ·雷德费恩说： “其实 researcher Mark Redfern said. People of 是我们让人们滑倒的。 ”在他的实验室 different ages fall on purpose in his lab. 里，有来自各个年龄段的人们，他们 Cameras record their falls and a computer