趣味英语第96期:考试时如何集中注意力

Paula Andrea wants to know:

宝拉·安德莉亚想知道：

"How can I concentrate in the middle of an exam?"

“考试时如何集中注意力？”

I have so much trouble with this. Oh my god. Try your hardest. That's all I can tell you.

我在这方面也有很大的问题。我的天哪。尽最大努力去集中。这就是我能告诉你的。

Try to concentrate really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really hard.

尽量努力去集中，努力，努力，努力，努力，努力，努力，努力，努力，努力，努力，努力，再努力。

Put on quiet music and then you can concentrate.

播放安静的音乐，这样你就能集中注意力了。

Try to focus on the positive outcome¹ that could happen when you pass this test.

尽量把注意力放在通过考试后可能产生的积极结果上。

Stop looking anywhere else. Just look at your paper.

不要再看其他地方了。专心看试卷。

If you need to, I would put up your binder², like put it one side. If you have another binder, put it right there so that you can't see anybody else or anybody else's paper except for yours.

如果你有需要，我会建议你把活页夹立起来，放在一边。如果你还有另一个活页夹，把它放在这里，这样你就看不到其他人了，或者说除了你自己的试卷，你看不到其他人的试卷了。

The best way to concentrate is just to clear your mind, look at the questions, and look at each one specifically³ and just don't worry about what's coming next.

集中注意力最好的方法是保持头脑清醒，专心看试卷上的问题，专心回答每道问题，不要担心接下来会发生的事。

If it's a very long exam, maybe if they allow you get up in the middle of it, go to the bathroom and come back, just to give yourself a little relief from stress.

如果考试时间很长，他们可能会允许你在中途去卫生间，你可以利用这个时间缓解压力。

I really recommend that you just take some deep breaths, stop for a moment, and think about exactly what you know you already studied.

我建议你做几次深呼吸，停下来想一下你所学的知识。

What I do is chewing gum⁴. That helps the whole kind of thing.

我的方法是嚼口香糖。这很有帮助。

If you're allowed to have gum or something chewy like celery with you, if you chew that while you're studying and then you do the exact same thing and chew it while you're taking your test, you'll be able to concentrate better 'cause there's something with your brain and it remembers that taste and it's like, "Ooh, this is happening right now," and then you just go with that. It's on the Internet so it must be true.

如果你可以吃口香糖或像西芹一样耐嚼的东西，你可以一边学习一边嚼东西，然后在考试时也这样做，嚼着东西，你更能集中注意力，因为你的大脑记住了那个味道，就好像“哦，现在正在发生”，你可以那样做。这是互联网上提到的方法，所以一定是真的。

1 outcome   

n.结果，出口，演变

参考例句：

• The outcome of the experiment is in the lap of the gods.实验结果尚难预料。
• The outcome of the war is hard to foretell.战争胜负难以预卜。

2 binder   

n.包扎物，包扎工具；[法]临时契约；粘合剂；装订工

参考例句：

• The cloth flower snaps on with a special binder.这布花是用一种特殊的粘合剂固定住的。
• Purified water was used as liquid binder.纯净水作为液体粘合剂。

3 specifically   

adv.明确地，具体地；特别地，特意

参考例句：

• The book was written specifically for children.这本书是特地为儿童编写的。
• I told you specifically not to do that.我明确地告诉你不要那样做。

4 gum   

n.牙龈；口香糖；树胶

参考例句：

• We can stick these pictures into the book with gum.我们可用胶水把这几张画粘贴在书里。
• Americans like to chew gum.美国人喜欢嚼口香糖。