精美英文欣赏:解梦 Understanding Dreams(上)

Understanding Dreams

解梦

We dream for four hours every night, but may just be able to remember one dream every few days.

每晚，我们有四个小时的时间是在做梦，但是每隔几天我们能记住其中的一个梦。

It is every person's secret life—and one we typically want to know more about.

它是每个人秘密生活的一部分，对此我们通常想知道更多信息。

We want to tap into those nighttime fantasies that have us flying, saving the world and dating movie stars.

我们在夜梦中幻想自己飞翔，拯救世界以及和电影明星约会。

And we'd like to both learn from and escape our nightmare—being chased by wild animals, falling off a cliff or sitting down to an exam we never studied for.

我们也会做让我们想要逃离的噩梦——被野生动物追逐，从悬崖上坠落或者考一场我们完全不会解答的测试。

Dream researchers find that pain is rarely experienced in dreams.

研究人员发现，梦中很少能体验到疼痛。

And we do dream in color. But because it's so hard to remember dreams most people forget that fact.

我们会做彩色的梦。但是因为梦很难记住，所以大多数人会忘记梦的内容。

70 to 80 percent of a dream's content comes from the previous day, though the elderly often dream of events from their teens and twenties.

70%到80%的梦的内容来源于前一天的生活，尽管老年人常会梦见自己十几岁和二十几岁的事情。

Women dream of males and females, and their dreams are often focused on relationships.

女性会做和两性相关的梦，主要集中在人际关系这个方面。

Men's dreams focus more on males, success and failure.

男人做更多和男性、成功和失败有关的梦。

Today's dream experts agree with Sigmund Freud, who believed that dreams were the subconscious¹ way of communicating with us and that getting to know our dreams was a way to learn about ourselves.

今天的解梦专家赞成西格蒙德·弗洛伊德的理论，认为梦是一种潜意识和我们交流的方式，了解我们的梦是更好认识自己的一种办法。

For instance, having nightmares means you are psychologically disturbed, suffering from stress, anxiety or depression.

比如，做恶梦意味着你的心理受到打扰，忍受压力、焦虑或者抑郁之苦。

Nightmares can be stopped. One way to do this is by dealing² with the problem.

噩梦是可以停止的。一种办法是把解决问题。

1 subconscious   

n./adj.潜意识(的)，下意识(的)

参考例句：

• Nail biting is often a subconscious reaction to tension.咬指甲通常是紧张时的下意识反映。
• My answer seemed to come from the subconscious.我的回答似乎出自下意识。

2 dealing   

n.经商方法，待人态度

参考例句：

• This store has an excellent reputation for fair dealing.该商店因买卖公道而享有极高的声誉。
• His fair dealing earned our confidence.他的诚实的行为获得我们的信任。