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 今日主題：Lots or Little Sleep Linked to Sick Days
睡眠過多或過少都會引起疾病

 洪欣老師推薦：托福聽力最好的課外教材：60-Second Science
 康康精選托福會考的主題，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。

 MP3音檔：喜歡的同學，幫忙推或按讚哦~~
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 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：
Shakespeare called sleep the chief nourisher in life's feast. But today we know it's so much more. Insufficient sleep contributes to the risk of cardiovascular disease, diabetes and obesity. And now a study finds that too little or too much sleep are both associated with a significant increase in sick days away from work.
莎士比亞稱睡眠為人生盛宴中最重要的營養物。但是今天我們對睡眠瞭解的更多。睡眠不足有導致心血管疾病、糖尿病和肥胖症的風險。而且現在的一項研究發現，睡眠過多或過少都會顯著的增加我們請病假遠離工作的時間。

Almost 4,000 men and women between 30 and 64 years old (in Finland) participated in the study, which followed them for seven years. The research revealed that the absence from work due to illness increased dramatically for those who said they slept less than six hours or more than nine hours per night. The sleep time that was associated with the lowest number of sick days was seven hours 38 minutes for women and seven hours 46 minutes for men. The study is in the journal Sleep. [Tea Lallukka, Sleep and Sickness Absence: A Nationally Representative Register-Based Follow-Up Study]

30歲-64歲之間的4000名芬蘭男性和女性參與了這項研究，研究人員跟蹤研究來了他們7年。研究表明，那些稱自己每晚睡眠時間少於6小時或多於9小時 的人們，因病缺席工作的時間大幅增加。研究發現請病假天數最少的女性的睡眠時間是每天7小時38分，男性是6小時46分鐘。這項研究被發表在《睡眠》雜誌 上。

Of course these findings are associative and not necessarily causal. Other factors may be responsible for the under- or oversleeping to begin with. But sleep patterns are still a warning sign for increased illness and health complications. Shakespeare put it best: Sleep…that knits up the ravell'd sleave of care.
—Christie Nicholson
當然這些發現之間的聯繫並不一定是有因果關係的。其他因素也可能導致最初的睡眠不足或睡過頭。但是睡眠模式的不合理仍然是增加疾病和引起健康併發症的一個警告信號。莎士比亞對睡眠的闡釋最佳：睡眠把鬆散的護理的細絲織補在一起。——克里斯蒂‧尼克爾森