纪录片《彻底隔离》 第32期 语言流畅性测试

Now I'm going to give you a letter of the alphabet and I want you to list as many words as possible that begin with that letter.

现在我会给定一个字母，我想让你尽可能多地列举以这个字母开头的单词。

So the first letter is F. Fertiliser.

第一个字母是F。肥料。

Bill struggles on the verbal fluency¹.

比尔的语言流畅性测试进行得十分艰难。

In just 48 hours, his central executive's ability to pull together memory and language to create a category has been badly affected². Gosh.

短短48小时内，他的中央控制系统将记忆与语言结合，进而对事物进行分类的能力已受到严重影响。天呐。

And the same has happened to several others. Ok.

其余几名受试者也出现了这种情况。好的。

One Tuesday morning in July, the couple were leaving the house to go to work.

7月的一个星期二早晨，一对夫妇离开家去上班。

For the scientists, the most important test of all is the suggestibility test.

对于科学家而言，最重要的测试项目是暗示性测试。

Anna and John ran after the boy, and John caught hold of the bicycle and brought it to a halt.

安娜和约翰跟在男孩后面跑，约翰拉住了自行车，使其停了下来。

It reflects how sensory³ deprivation⁴ makes subjects more vulnerable to outside influence.

该测试能反映出感官剥夺如何使受试者更易受到外界影响。

1 fluency   

n.流畅，雄辩，善辩

参考例句：

• More practice will make you speak with greater fluency.多练习就可以使你的口语更流利。
• Some young children achieve great fluency in their reading.一些孩子小小年纪阅读已经非常流畅。

2 affected   

adj.不自然的，假装的

参考例句：

• She showed an affected interest in our subject.她假装对我们的课题感到兴趣。
• His manners are affected.他的态度不自然。

3 sensory   

adj.知觉的，感觉的，知觉器官的

参考例句：

• Human powers of sensory discrimination are limited.人类感官分辨能力有限。
• The sensory system may undergo long-term adaptation in alien environments.感觉系统对陌生的环境可能经过长时期才能适应。

4 deprivation   

n.匮乏；丧失；夺去，贫困

参考例句：

• Many studies make it clear that sleep deprivation is dangerous.多实验都证实了睡眠被剥夺是危险的。
• Missing the holiday was a great deprivation.错过假日是极大的损失。