【英语时差8,16】男人和电子游戏

Don: It's time once again to go to the A Moment of Science Mailbag . . .

Ya?l: A listener writers in:

Dear AMOS:

Why does it seem like guys are into video games way more than women? Is there a scientific explanation for this?

D: Great question. And in fact there is some scientific research that tries to explain why video games seem to be a guy thing.

Y: Fumiko Hoeft, a researcher at Stanford, got eleven men and eleven women to play a video game while lying inside an MRI scanner. That's a machine that can take detailed¹ pictures of what's happening inside the body.

D: Now, the game the participants played was simple: it consisted only of clicking balls to keep them from hitting a wall at the center of a computer screen. The players soon learned that the faster they clicked, the more territory they gained. What the MRI scan showed was that the player's brains showed activity in regions associated with reward and addiction².

Y: But men's brains showed a lot more activity. So the idea is that men may be hard wired, in a sense, to get excited about the challenge of gaining and losing territory. In other words, it could be that men are more territorial³ than women.

D: And if that's true, it would explain why guys are so drawn⁴ to video games about war and sports, where the object is to vanquish⁵ your opponent and conquer territory.

Y: So there may be some video games that women love more than men. But territoriality⁶ may help explain why more violent games seem to be mainly a guy thing.  

1 detailed   

adj.详细的，详尽的，极注意细节的，完全的

参考例句：

• He had made a detailed study of the terrain.他对地形作了缜密的研究。
• A detailed list of our publications is available on request.我们的出版物有一份详细的目录备索。

2 addiction   

n.上瘾入迷，嗜好

参考例句：

• He stole money from his parents to feed his addiction.他从父母那儿偷钱以满足自己的嗜好。
• Areas of drug dealing are hellholes of addiction,poverty and murder.贩卖毒品的地区往往是吸毒上瘾、贫困和发生谋杀的地方。

3 territorial   

adj.领土的，领地的

参考例句：

• The country is fighting to preserve its territorial integrity.该国在为保持领土的完整而进行斗争。
• They were not allowed to fish in our territorial waters.不允许他们在我国领海捕鱼。

4 drawn   

v.拖，拉，拔出；adj.憔悴的，紧张的

参考例句：

• All the characters in the story are drawn from life.故事中的所有人物都取材于生活。
• Her gaze was drawn irresistibly to the scene outside.她的目光禁不住被外面的风景所吸引。

5 vanquish   

v.征服，战胜；克服；抑制

参考例句：

• He tried to vanquish his fears.他努力克服恐惧心理。
• It is impossible to vanquish so strong an enemy without making an extensive and long-term effort.现在要战胜这样一个强敌，非有长期的广大的努力是不可能的。

6 territoriality   

n.领土，领土的性质或状态

参考例句：

• IPR generally have the features of intangibility, exclusivity, territoriality and temporality. 知识产权一般具有无形性、专用性、地域性、时间性特征。 来自互联网
• Figure 5 Dominance, superiority and territoriality are evident here. 图5大权在握、目空一切、不容侵犯的神态显而易见。 来自互联网