清醒早晨-喝橙汁(5)

ways to improve your alertness and cognitive¹ function in the morning.

 

早晨提高你的警觉性及认知能力

 

Drink orange juice

 

喝橙汁

 

Drinking orange juice will also give you a boost in the morning, they say, as citrus fruits are rich in flavonoids. Orange juice is said to increase alertness and cognitive function.

 

Researchers have linked flavonoids to slowing cognitive decline from aging and even decreased onset² of neurode generative diseases like Alzheimer's.

 

1 cognitive   

adj.认知的，认识的，有感知的

参考例句：

• As children grow older,their cognitive processes become sharper.孩子们越长越大，他们的认知过程变得更为敏锐。
• The cognitive psychologist is like the tinker who wants to know how a clock works.认知心理学者倒很像一个需要通晓钟表如何运转的钟表修理匠。

2 onset   

n.进攻，袭击，开始，突然开始

参考例句：

• The drug must be taken from the onset of the infection.这种药必须在感染的最初期就开始服用。
• Our troops withstood the onset of the enemy.我们的部队抵挡住了敌人的进攻。