时差N小时 夏季流行热瑜伽

It’s one of the most oppressively hot and humid days of the year, and Joan Fessler is in a room where the heat is cranked up to 36.5 degrees. On purpose.

这是一年中最难以忍受的炎热潮湿的天气。琼?费斯勒在高达36.5度的房间里挥汗如雨——这是有目的的。

While everyone else is searching for ways to cool off, devotees of "hot yoga" spend class sweating through a series of stretches and poses in a room designed to be even hotter than Africa in the summer.

每个人都在寻找防暑降温的办法， 但“热瑜伽”的信徒却在房间里通过一系列的拉伸运动和姿势，让自己大量出汗。那些特殊设计的房间甚至比黑非洲还要热。

"It's difficult to explain.... You're so at peace. It's well worth the suffering," Fessler said after a recent workout at Bikram Yoga Baltimore, a studio in Cockeysville, Maryland.

“很难解释这是为什么……，但能让你的心静下来。如此艰苦锻炼很值得。”费斯勒在巴尔的摩高温瑜珈室内完成最近的一次锻炼之后如是说。这个瑜伽室位于马里兰州的科基斯维尔。

In the Cockeysville yoga studio, instructors² crank up the temperature and keep the humidity level in the 30 percent to 40 percent range, which is ideal for Bikram yoga, a series of 26 postures³ and two breathing exercises.

在科基斯维尔瑜伽室，瑜伽师将温度调高，并将湿度保持在30％至40 ％以内。这对要完成26个姿势和两次呼吸练习的高温瑜伽练习者而言是最理想的锻炼条件。

About 20 people attended a recent noon class and within the first few minutes, everyone is sweating. It starts as beads⁴ of perspiration⁵ on foreheads. But most of them are drenched⁶ in sweat by the time the class members twist their arms and legs into the "eagle" pose.

约20人参加了这次中午的瑜伽练习。最初几分钟之内，每个人都开始出汗。开始时，每个人都只是额头上出现了汗珠。但当他们扭曲双臂和双腿做出雄鹰一样的姿势时，大多数人被汗水湿透了。

Although it is known for being challenging, the Bikram style is helpful to those with joint⁷ problems and back pain.

虽然这种运动极具挑战性，但这种高温风格的瑜伽对缓解关节和背部疼痛大有裨益。

"This kind of sweating is cleansing," an instructor¹ says. "Your body starts to crave⁸ it."

“这种出汗是对身体的一种清洁。”瑜伽师说：“你的身体渴望这种清洁。”

1 instructor   

n.指导者，教员，教练

参考例句：

• The college jumped him from instructor to full professor.大学突然把他从讲师提升为正教授。
• The skiing instructor was a tall,sunburnt man.滑雪教练是一个高高个子晒得黑黑的男子。

2 instructors   

指导者，教师( instructor的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• The instructors were slacking on the job. 教员们对工作松松垮垮。
• He was invited to sit on the rostrum as a representative of extramural instructors. 他以校外辅导员身份，被邀请到主席台上。

3 postures   

姿势( posture的名词复数 )； 看法； 态度； 立场

参考例句：

• Modern consciousness has this great need to explode its own postures. 现代意识很有这种摧毁本身姿态的需要。
• They instinctively gathered themselves into more tidy postures. 她们本能地恢复了端庄的姿态。

4 beads   

n.（空心）小珠子( bead的名词复数 )；水珠；珠子项链

参考例句：

• a necklace of wooden beads 一条木珠项链
• Beads of perspiration stood out on his forehead. 他的前额上挂着汗珠。

5 perspiration   

n.汗水；出汗

参考例句：

• It is so hot that my clothes are wet with perspiration.天太热了，我的衣服被汗水湿透了。
• The perspiration was running down my back.汗从我背上淌下来。

6 drenched   

adj.湿透的；充满的v.使湿透( drench的过去式和过去分词 )；在某人（某物）上大量使用（某液体）

参考例句：

• We were caught in the storm and got drenched to the skin. 我们遇上了暴雨，淋得浑身透湿。
• The rain drenched us. 雨把我们淋得湿透。 来自《简明英汉词典》

7 joint   

adj.联合的，共同的；n.关节，接合处；v.连接，贴合

参考例句：

• I had a bad fall,which put my shoulder out of joint.我重重地摔了一跤，肩膀脫臼了。
• We wrote a letter in joint names.我们联名写了封信。

8 crave   

vt.渴望得到，迫切需要，恳求，请求

参考例句：

• Many young children crave attention.许多小孩子渴望得到关心。
• You may be craving for some fresh air.你可能很想呼吸呼吸新鲜空气。