英语听力文摘 English Digest 28、甜蜜的复仇
时间：2019-01-26 作者：英语课 分类：英语听力文摘 English Digest
Yael: You must be a having a good day. The smile on your face is a mile wide.
Don: I'm finally going to get revenge on my neighbor.
Y: For what?
D: He has the loudest lawnmower you've ever heard. And as if that isn't enough, he mows 1 his lawn every Saturday at seven a.m., like clockwork, and wakes me up on the one day I can really sleep in!
Y: So what are you going to do?
D: It cost me three-hundred bucks 2, but now my lawnmower is even louder than his. And starting this Saturday, I'm going to set my alarm for six a.m. every weekend so I can beat him to the punch and wake him up with my lawnmower before he can wake me up with his!
Y: It sounds like your revenge is costing you a heck of a lot of money, what remains 3 of your hearing, and a good deal of sleep to boot.
D: And it's worth the price!
Y: It costs you more money and sleep for your revenge than it did just to listen to his lawnmower. As irrational 4 as this is, however, it's also normal human behavior. A study confirms that thoughts of revenge can be so pleasurable that many of us are willing to pay extra for it. PET scans of the brains of people contemplating 5 revenge showed a positive correlation 6 between the amount of activity in reward-related areas of the brain and how much a person was willing to pay for the revenge. It just goes to show how our passions can interfere 7 with rational behavior.
D: Man, thinking about revenge is seriously sweet. Did I say six o'clock? On second thought, how about four?
- I saw him make mops and mows at Mary. 我看见他冲着玛丽做鬼脸。 来自互联网
- My mother mows the grass on the street once a week. （我妈妈每星期都在街上修一次草坪。） 来自互联网
- They cost ten bucks. 这些值十元钱。
- They are hunting for bucks. 他们正在猎雄兔。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- He ate the remains of food hungrily.他狼吞虎咽地吃剩余的食物。
- The remains of the meal were fed to the dog.残羹剩饭喂狗了。
- After taking the drug she became completely irrational.她在吸毒后变得完全失去了理性。
- There are also signs of irrational exuberance among some investors.在某些投资者中是存在非理性繁荣的征象的。
- You're too young to be contemplating retirement. 你考虑退休还太年轻。
- She stood contemplating the painting. 她站在那儿凝视那幅图画。
- The second group of measurements had a high correlation with the first.第二组测量数据与第一组高度相关。
- A high correlation exists in America between education and economic position.教育和经济地位在美国有极密切的关系。