【英语时差8,16】解剖学的无知：有多少人能找到心脏的位置？

Anatomy¹ Ignorance²: How Few People Can Locate The Heart Do you know where your heart is located? How about your bladder? According to a study published by British researchers, an alarming number of people are ignorant³ this and many other basic anatomical facts. The researchers showed several hundred people drawings of a male or female⁴ body featuring the major organs. The pictures included one organ in place and the rest misplaced. Of the more than seven-hundred people interviewed, only half knew where the heart belongs. And only a third got the position of the lungs right. On the brighter side, more than eighty-five percent of people got the intestines⁵ right, and eighty percent knew where the bladder belongs. But of course, that means that twenty percent whiffed when it came to locating the bladder. Ok,fine, many people, at least in England, don’t know their anatomy. So what? More for one thing, the study’s results were about the same as a similar study done in the 1970s. So over the past forty years, we’ve gained little ground in educating people about what’s inside the body. And it seems reasonable that knowing more about what’s inside us and how organs work is generally a good thing. But more importantly, how much or how little we know about anatomy can affect our health. Other studies have shown that, given the general ignorance of anatomy, doctors shouldn’t assume⁶ that patients understand what their organs are and how they work, even when a patient is being treated for a diseased or failed organ! Does knowing more about the body translate to people making healthier life choices? It’s hard to say. But more anatomical knowledge certainly can’t hurt.

 

1 anatomy   

n.解剖学，解剖；功能，结构，组织

参考例句：

• He found out a great deal about the anatomy of animals.在动物解剖学方面，他有过许多发现。
• The hurricane's anatomy was powerful and complex.对飓风的剖析是一项庞大而复杂的工作。

2 ignorance   

n.无知，愚昧，不了解，（of，about）不知道

参考例句：

• The relation of disease to poverty and ignorance is easy to see.疾病与贫穷、无知之间的关系是显而易见的。
• Maybe it is all due to my own ignorance.也许是我少见多怪。

3 ignorant   

adj.无知的，没有学问的，愚昧的，不知道的

参考例句：

• They are unbelievably ignorant.他们无知到令人难以置信的地步。
• He's not stupid,merely ignorant.他并不愚蠢，只是无知。

4 female   

adj.雌的，女(性)的；n.雌性的动物，女子

参考例句：

• We only employ female workers.我们只雇用女工。
• The animal in the picture was a female elephant.照片上的动物是头母象。

5 intestines   

n.肠( intestine的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• Perhaps the most serious problems occur in the stomach and intestines. 最严重的问题或许出现在胃和肠里。 来自辞典例句
• The traps of carnivorous plants function a little like the stomachs and small intestines of animals. 食肉植物的捕蝇器起着动物的胃和小肠的作用。 来自辞典例句

6 assume   

vt.假装；假定，设想；承担；呈现，采取

参考例句：

• I assume that he won't cheat you.想来他是不会骗你的。
• We can't assume anything in this case.在这种情况下我们不可能做出假设。