SSS 2010-11-11_在线英语听力室_免费在线英语听力学习网站

(单词翻译:双击或拖选)

    This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Karen Hopkin. This will just take a minute.

    Ah, daydreaming¹. Is there anything more pleasant than sitting back and letting your thoughts drift? Well, yes: not letting your thoughts drift, for one. Because according to a study published in the journal Science, people are least happy when their minds wander. Humans, to a degree unmatched by other animals, are capable of thinking about things outside the here and now—something that happened yesterday, or something they hope will happen tomorrow. It's that sort of itinerant² intellect that allows us to plan and to learn. But at what cost?

    Psychologists at Harvard used an iPhone app to find out. At random³ times throughout the day, the program asked some 2,200 participants what they were doing, what they were thinking about and how they felt. Turns out that people spend nearly half their waking hours thinking about something other than what they're doing. And that whether and where their thoughts tend to stray is a better predictor of their feelings than what they're actually up to. The scientists conclude that a wandering mind is an unhappy mind.

    So try to focus on, and live in, the present. You might discover that happiness is just being where it's happening.

    Thanks for the minute. For Scientific American's 60-Second Science, I'm Karen Hopkin.

点击

收听单词发音

1 daydreaming
v.想入非非，空想( daydream的现在分词 )
参考例句：
Stop daydreaming and be realistic. 别空想了，还是从实际出发吧。来自《现代汉英综合大词典》 Bill was sitting and daydreaming so his mother told him to come down to earth and to do his homework. 比尔坐着空想，他母亲要他面对现实，去做课外作业。来自《现代汉英综合大词典》

2 itinerant
adj.巡回的；流动的
参考例句：
He is starting itinerant performance all over the world.他正在世界各地巡回演出。 There is a general debate nowadays about the problem of itinerant workers.目前，针对流动工人的问题展开了普遍的争论。

3 random
adj.随机的；任意的；n.偶然的(或随便的)行动
参考例句：
The list is arranged in a random order.名单排列不分先后。 On random inspection the meat was found to be bad.经抽查，发现肉变质了。