时差N小时 我们是不是在哪儿见过?(上)

You wake up one morning to find a strange man standing¹ in your kitchen. Worse than that he seems to have made himself completely at home.

当你早上醒来时，你发现自己的厨房里有个陌生人，更糟糕的是他还完全不拿自己当外人。

Someone's child is sitting in the living room watching television, on which somebody or other is giving a speech while standing next to a bust² of some old guy. Who are these people? And where's your family?

而此时客厅里有个小孩正在看电视，电视上不知是哪个人站在一个老人的半身雕像旁正在做演讲。这些人是谁？你的家人去哪里了？

If you suffered from the neurological disorder³ called "facial agnosia," a twilight-zone style experience of this sort might be a reality.

如果你曾经历过一种名叫面孔失认症的神经紊乱，那么这种模糊状态历可能会是真实的经历。

Facial agnosia typically occurs to people who have received damage to the right hemisphere⁴ of the brain due to stroke or injury.

一般这种面孔失认症会发生在大脑右半球曾受过重创或损伤的人身上。

People with facial agnosia lose the ability to recognize even the most familiar faces: in this case a husband and daughter, the president of the United States and a bust of Abraham Lincoln.

面孔失认症患者甚至没有能力去鉴别他们最熟悉的面孔，比如说他们的丈夫和女儿，或者美国总统和林肯半身像等等。

1 standing   

n.持续，地位；adj.永久的，不动的，直立的，不流动的

参考例句：

• After the earthquake only a few houses were left standing.地震过后只有几幢房屋还立着。
• They're standing out against any change in the law.他们坚决反对对法律做任何修改。

2 bust   

vt.打破；vi.爆裂；n.半身像；胸部

参考例句：

• I dropped my camera on the pavement and bust it. 我把照相机掉在人行道上摔坏了。
• She has worked up a lump of clay into a bust.她把一块黏土精心制作成一个半身像。

3 disorder   

n.紊乱，混乱；骚动，骚乱；疾病，失调

参考例句：

• When returning back,he discovered the room to be in disorder.回家后，他发现屋子里乱七八糟。
• It contained a vast number of letters in great disorder.里面七零八落地装着许多信件。

4 hemisphere   

n.半球，半球地图

参考例句：

• This animal is to be found only in the Southern Hemisphere.这种动物只有在南半球才能找到。
• In most people,the left hemisphere is bigger than the right.多数人的左脑比右脑大。