今日主題：Are we there yet? / 時間是快是慢？
凱妃老師&派老師共同推薦：雅思聽力最好的課外教材：BBC
康康精選雅思會考的主題，堅持每天精聽一定會進步的哦!!
建議方法：
1. 先聽兩三遍 (不看文稿)
2. 再一句一句聽寫 (每句都要聽寫數遍，直到寫出85%以上的字)
3. 最後check文稿，看哪聽不出來，單字沒背過，還是發音不熟。
4. 堅持天天聽，就能每天進步哦。
#BBC 六分鐘英語
MP3音檔 (按右鍵可下載聽)：喜歡的同學，幫忙推或按讚哦~~
http://static.iyuba.com/sounds/minutes/1051.mp3
只有音檔怎夠，聽不懂地方，不用怕，康康幫你準備好中英文稿了：
中英文稿：
Hello and welcome to 6 Minute English. I’m Alice…
大家好，歡迎收聽六分鐘英語，我是愛麗絲。
And I’m Neil. Did you have a good weekend, Alice?
我是尼爾。週末過得愉快嗎，愛麗絲？
Yes, but it flew by – which means it went quickly – and here we are again, back at work!
挺好的，但是時間飛逝，也就是說時間過得好快。我們又回到這裡，開始工作了！
Hm. I know what you mean. Though I must say, time really dragged for me – and that means it went slowly. I was on a train, which broke down.
我懂你的意思。但是我必須說，時間是拖著我走，對我來說時間走得太慢了。我坐的那輛火車臨時出故障了。
Oh dear!
天啊！
And it felt like it took forever to arrive – though actually it was only delayed only by one hour.
火車似乎永遠都到不了，但事實上它只推遲了一個小時。
Well, today we’re talking about our perception of – or the way we see – time. It’s true that when we’re busy doing lots of things, time flies by.
今天我們談論的是看待時間的方式。如果我們忙著做很多事，時間就會過得很快。
And when we’re bored or have nothing to do, it drags. And I didn’t have anything to do on the train. Do you think time flows at the same rate for everyone – even animals? My cat doesn’t get bored doing nothing all day. I wonder if time drags for her sometimes?
當我們無所事事時，時間就會很慢。我在火車上沒什麼事可做。你覺得時間流逝的速度對每個人都是一樣的嗎？甚至對動物也是一樣的嗎？我的貓一天無所事事也不覺得無聊。我在想是不是對她來說時間有時走得很慢？
Good question! Did you know, Neil, that, according to a new study, smaller animals perceive time as if it is passing in slow motion?
好問題！你知道嗎？一項新研究顯示，越小的動物越能覺察到時間緩慢流逝。
That sounds weird. Do you think they hear us like this: t…a…l…k…i…n…g s…l…o…w…l…y…?
這聽上去很奇怪。你覺得他們聽我們講話是不是這樣：說……慢……點……？
Don’t be silly, Neil! What I meant was that small animals such as insects and small birds can observe more detail in a certain period of time – for example, a second – than larger animals.
別傻了，尼爾！我的意思是小動物，例如昆蟲和小鳥，相比大一點的動物，能在一段時間內，如一秒內，觀察到更細節的東西。
And how does this help them, exactly? It sounds like the day would really drag if every second got stretched out like that!
這對他們來說有什麼幫助嗎？這聽上去像每一秒都拉長了，一天真的就過得很慢。
It helps them by giving them time to escape larger predators. Now, I have a question for you, Neil. Can you tell me roughly how much more quickly a fly’s eye can react than a human eye? Is it …a) twice as quickly? b) four times as quickly? Or c) ten times as quickly?
這使得他們有時間逃脫大型的捕食者。我有一個問題要問你，尼爾。你能告訴我，蒼蠅的眼睛比人眼的反應快多少倍嗎？a)兩倍？b) 四倍？還是c)十倍？
Well, I’ll go for c) ten times. Flies are pretty nippy – and that’s another word for quick.
我選c)十倍。蒼蠅反應相當快了。Nippy是指快。
Yes. Well, we’ll find out later on if you got the answer right or not. Now, small animals can typically process more visual information than we can. But in a dangerous situation our brains can work in overdrive to process information more quickly. And overdrive means a state of extreme activity. Let’s listen to Raza Rumi, a writer and broadcaster in Pakistan, talking about the unusual way his brain worked when gunmen opened fire on him in his car.
好的。之後我們再看你回答的是否正確。小動物比我們處理的視覺資訊要多。但在危險的情形下，我們的大腦可以超速運轉，更快速地處理資訊。overdrive是指超速運作狀態。我們來聽聽巴基斯坦作家兼廣播員Raza Rumi的觀點，他要講述槍手向他的車開火時，他的大腦的異常活動。
It lasted for a few minutes – but to me that particular incident feels like it was for hours. I think my brain was working in a very strange way. Parallel and multiple thoughts and streams of consciousness were sort of running along: ‘I have to save my head because if I get a bullet in my brain I’m dead.’ And at the same time, ’Was it all worth it?’ And, ‘Alas, what a short life it was, it was lovely.’ I was petrified that I was going to die.
這只持續了幾分鐘，但對我來說這次事件仿佛持續了幾個小時。我覺得我的大腦以一種非常奇怪的方式運作。兩種及多種想法，以及意識流在腦海中延伸：“我得護住我的頭，因為如果子彈打進頭部，我就會死。”同時，我還想“這值得嗎？”以及，“生命多短暫，生命是這麼美麗。”意識到我要死了，這讓我都懵了。
Raza Rumi there. So, he was petrified by the attack – which means extremely frightened. As a result, his brain started working in a strange way. He was thinking and feeling lots of different things at the same time.
上述是Raza Rumi的講話。所以遇到這次襲擊，他非常害怕。結果他的大腦開始以一種奇怪的方式運作。他同時在想很多不同的事。
That’s right – he remembers thinking practical thoughts like, ’I have to save my head’.
沒錯。他記得他想到一些很實際的想法，如“我得護住我的頭。”
But in parallel – or at the same time – he also remembers having philosophical thoughts, such as: What a short life it was, it was lovely.
但同時，他也想到一些哲學思想，如生命多麼短暫，生命多麼奇妙。
Have you ever been in a dangerous situation where your brain went into overdrive, Neil?
尼爾，你遇到過在險境中大腦超速運轉的情況嗎？
Yes, I was ten years old and I fell backwards out of a big tree in our garden.
有，我十歲的時候，我從園子中的大樹上掉下來。
Oh no!
天啊！
Yeah. I have a vivid memory of the sun flashing above me, and the clouds moving across the sky, and the leaves rustling in the tree above me– my mum was screaming through the kitchen window as she saw me fall. I experienced so much in the space of just a few seconds, just like Raza Rumi describes.
我還記得那個生動的畫面，太陽在頭頂照耀，雲彩飄過天空，樹上的葉子發出沙沙的響聲。我的媽媽在廚房看到我掉下來，大叫起來。只是幾秒的時間，我卻感受到了那麼多，就像Raza Rumi描述的那樣。
Yes. A vivid memory, by the way, is clear and detailed. Oh, poor Neil! Did you hurt yourself?
回憶很生動，很清晰也很具體。可憐的尼爾！你受傷了嗎？
Some big bruises – but no broken bones.
有大片的淤青，但沒有傷到骨頭。
Glad to hear it. Now, it’s a strange trick of memory that in a scary situation your brain starts to record everything in great detail. And the more memory you have of an event, the longer you believe it took. This idea explains why children often feel that time is passing slowly – because their experiences are new, and they are creating lots of new memories.
幸好啊。在令人恐懼的情形下，你的大腦開始記錄每一個細節，這種記憶真的很奇怪。你關於一件事的記憶越多，你感覺它發生的時間越長。這就能解釋為什麼孩子們經常覺得時間過得慢，因為他們的經歷都很新奇，他們不斷創造新的記憶。
Whereas boring grown-ups like us are following routines that don’t require new memories because they’re so familiar. But let’s listen to Claudia Hammond, author of Time Warped, talking about how we can stretch time and make our days feel longer – in a good way!
然而像我們這樣無聊的大人，每天做著固定的事，沒有新的記憶，因為一切都太熟悉了。但是讓我們來聽聽《時間跳躍》的作者Claudia Hammond的觀點。她會講述如何以一種良好的方式，延長時間，讓我們感覺每天都很長。
If you can spend your weekend filling it with loads of new different activities, it’ll go fast, at the time, because you’re having fun. But when you look back, say, on Sunday night, and you’ve got to go to work next day, it will feel as if your weekend was long, because you filled it with new memories.
如果你在週末做很多不同的新鮮事，時間就會過得很快，因為你在其中收穫了快樂。但當你在周日晚回憶這些事，並且第二天要上班，你會感覺你的週末過得很長，因為你新添了很多新的記憶。
We should do that, this weekend, Neil. What do you think?
這週末我們應該這麼做。你覺得呢？
Definitely. I’m going to buzz around like a fly, creating loads of new memories.
當然。我要像蒼蠅一樣四處跑，創造許多新的記憶。
Now, are you ready for the answer to today’s quiz question? I asked: Roughly how much more quickly a fly’s eye can react than a human eye? Is it … a) twice as quickly, b) four times as quickly or c) ten times as quickly?
現在是時候揭曉今天問題的答案了吧？我的問題是：蒼蠅的眼睛比人眼的反應快多少倍 a) 兩倍, b)四倍，還是 c) 十倍？
And I said c) ten times as quickly.
我選的是 c) 十倍。
The correct answer is b) four times as quickly. Flies have eyes that send updates to the brain at much higher frequencies than our eyes because they can process the information more quickly. This speed illustrates the impressive capabilities of even the smallest animal brains.
正確答案是b)四倍。蒼蠅的眼睛向大腦發送資訊更新的速度比我們快。因為他們能更快地處理資訊。這一速度說明了即便是大腦如此小的動物，都擁有如此令人驚歎的能力。
Well, before we buzz off, perhaps we should hear the words we learned today.
在我們匆匆離去前，再聽一下今天學到的單詞吧。
They are:
單詞有：
flew by 飛逝
dragged 拖延的
perception 感覺
nippy 銳利的
overdrive 超速運轉
petrified 驚呆的
in parallel 同時
Well, that’s the end of today’s 6 Minute English. Remember to join us again soon!
今天的六分鐘英語就到這裡。記得下次節目再會！
Bye!
再見！
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