“脸盲症”英语怎么说

 　　身边有这么一些人，看见熟人都会张口喊一句“那谁！”然后盯着人家半天叫不出名字。这世界上还有那么一些人，他们无法辨认别人的容貌，就算是每天相见的熟人，他们也认不出来。如果说前者是一时语塞，后者却是实实在在的一种病症。

　　Face blindness refers to difficulty recognizing faces or telling faces apart.

　　脸盲症 （ face blindness ）指难以辨认或分别人的容貌的状况。

　　New findings from researchers at Harvard and elsewhere suggest that a surprising number of people are face-blind, so bad at recognizing faces that they routinely snub acquaintances and have trouble following movie plots. In extreme cases, they may greet siblings¹ as strangers and struggle to discern which child is theirs at school pick-up time.

　　来自哈佛及其他地方的研究人员发现，有相当一部分人都患有脸盲症，而且这个数目是惊人的。这些人完全无法辨识脸部容貌，以至于经常对熟人视而不见，看电影时也跟不上情节。在一些极端案例中，他们会把自己的兄弟姐妹误当成陌生人，到学校接孩子时经常无法判断哪个孩子才是自己家的。

　　The syndrome², known medically as prosopagnosia, was long thought to be a rare neurological curiosity that resulted from brain damage.

　　这种综合征的医学学名为prosopagnosia，长期以来一直被看作是罕见的神经科奇症，且由脑损伤引起。

　　Research has begun to suggest that most face-blindness stems from genes³, rather than brain injury, and that it is far more widespread than previously⁴ suspected, with up to 2 percent of the population affected⁵ to some degree.

　　不过，有研究显示，大部分脸盲症不是脑损伤引起的，而是由基因导致的；另外，其发病规模也远远超出之前的预测，全球人口中有2%的人都患有不同程度的脸盲症。

1 siblings   

n.兄弟，姐妹( sibling的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• A triplet sleeps amongst its two siblings. 一个三胞胎睡在其两个同胞之间。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• She has no way of tracking the donor or her half-siblings down. 她没办法找到那个捐精者或她的兄弟姐妹。 来自时文部分

2 syndrome   

n.综合病症；并存特性

参考例句：

• The Institute says that an unidentified virus is to blame for the syndrome. 该研究所表示,引起这种综合症的是一种尚未确认的病毒。
• Results indicated that 11 fetuses had Down syndrome. 结果表明有11个胎儿患有唐氏综合征。

3 genes   

n.基因( gene的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• You have good genes from your parents, so you should live a long time. 你从父母那儿获得优良的基因，所以能够活得很长。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• Differences will help to reveal the functions of the genes. 它们间的差异将会帮助我们揭开基因多种功能。 来自英汉非文学 - 生命科学 - 生物技术的世纪

4 previously   

adv.以前，先前（地）

参考例句：

• The bicycle tyre blew out at a previously damaged point.自行车胎在以前损坏过的地方又爆开了。
• Let me digress for a moment and explain what had happened previously.让我岔开一会儿，解释原先发生了什么。

5 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。