时间:2018-12-02 作者:英语课 分类:2016年Scientific American(十二)月


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In March 2015, the co-pilot of Germanwings Flight 9525 crashed the jet into the French Alps, killing 1 himself and 149 others. Later on, investigators 2 found out he'd googled poisons, and living wills. And he'd previously 3 been treated for severe depression. And yet, his mental illness was mostly ignored by Lufthansa, the airline’s parent company.


After the crash, researchers with the Harvard School of Public Health reached out to commercial pilots worldwide, advertising 4 an anonymous 5 survey about pilot health. Among other topics, it had a short section on mental health. The investigators found that nearly 13 percent of the 1,800 pilots surveyed met the standard criteria 6 for depression. And seventy-five of them had had suicidal thoughts within the last few weeks. The study is in the journal Environmental Health. [Alexander C. Wu et al., Airplane pilot mental health and suicidal thoughts: a cross-sectional descriptive study via anonymous web-based survey]


Couple caveats 7: the researchers didn't clinically diagnose the pilots. And they can't compare rates of suicidal thoughts in pilots to rates you'd find among the general population, due to sampling issues. Still, you're probably wondering: should you be worried? 


"The answer is no." Alexander Wu, a doctoral candidate in occupational epidemiology. "The data strongly support the fact that traveling by air is by far the safest form of public transportation. And our study does not change that fact. And we want everyone to know that for sure. They should not be afraid to fly." Still, he and his co-authors recommend that airlines boost their support for preventative mental health treatment. To make sure it's friendly skies for passengers—and pilots—alike.


—Christopher Intagliata



1 killing
n.巨额利润;突然赚大钱,发大财
  • Investors are set to make a killing from the sell-off.投资者准备清仓以便大赚一笔。
  • Last week my brother made a killing on Wall Street.上个周我兄弟在华尔街赚了一大笔。
2 investigators
n.调查者,审查者( investigator的名词复数 )
  • This memo could be the smoking gun that investigators have been looking for. 这份备忘录可能是调查人员一直在寻找的证据。
  • The team consisted of six investigators and two secretaries. 这个团队由六个调查人员和两个秘书组成。 来自《简明英汉词典》
3 previously
adv.以前,先前(地)
  • 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。
4 advertising
n.广告业;广告活动 a.广告的;广告业务的
  • Can you give me any advice on getting into advertising? 你能指点我如何涉足广告业吗?
  • The advertising campaign is aimed primarily at young people. 这个广告宣传运动主要是针对年轻人的。
5 anonymous
adj.无名的;匿名的;无特色的
  • Sending anonymous letters is a cowardly act.寄匿名信是懦夫的行为。
  • The author wishes to remain anonymous.作者希望姓名不公开。
6 criteria
n.标准
  • The main criterion is value for money.主要的标准是钱要用得划算。
  • There are strict criteria for inclusion in the competition.参赛的标准很严格。
7 caveats
警告
  • I would offer a caveat for those who want to join me in the dual calling. 为防止发生误解,我想对那些想要步我后尘的人提出警告。 来自辞典例句
  • As I have written before, that's quite a caveat. 正如我以前所写,那确实是个警告。 来自互联网
学英语单词
acetylbupleurotoxin
aconitum alkaloid
active rudder electric propulsion apparatus
albe
amplitute modulation
armsful
aureity
Ban Na Noi
Belaya Kholunitsa
bijagos islands
bitter-brackish water desalination
black azimuth mirror
blockmodel
bridgetender
brown spar phyllite
burning final pressure
buskling
caudal sympathetic nervous system
Chiemgauer
circumtropical
clip screw
cochromatographic
collection tube
coral-snake
cryptocrystalline martensite
daggly
delay time difference
disodium 5'-ribonucleotide
distributed data processing
ethoxybenzoin
flask
flushed channel
frownless
full-borer
functional level modeling
golah
handle of malleus
hood-pick
huettel
hypoglycogenolysis
improvisate
isblink
jumblefuck
made a show of themselves
magnetic strainer
mamie
metallifactures
modulated channel region
mol.
non-ideal detonation
non-reflexive
nullosetigera mutata
on-reserve
oxalinast
Paston
pirene
piston drill
plate-current cut-off
plesiomorphically
polishing oil
popping plug
program control device
protoplast
pulse counting discriminator
quasi-partnership
relineation
reshampooing
retraded
retrograde pancreatography
revesible temper brittleness
ricki
rotor iron loss
Saenger's macula
sand cherries
search mission
self-organizing heuristic
shock mitigating device
short-spurred
Shādipur
single donor
slag coating
solution concentration
standard operating condition
starting handle bracket
steering bogey
striatum corpora
subway stations
suction-and-pressure fan
sundereth
swelling of vein
tax paid in kind
terminating load
throstle
top-hats
traumatic lesion
trityl chloride
trophic pyramid
Tuluran I.
unbans
unripenesses
utamaro
Yoshihide