时间:2018-12-03 作者:英语课 分类:初学者听力文摘精选


英语课

In this Moment of Science Don and Yael discuss a scientific way to choose the perfect date movie.

Don: Okay, Yael, if you were me, would you take your date to a violent action flick 1 or a romantic movie?



Yael: A romance, of course.



D: Well, there might be some scientific basis for why romantic movies make for good dates. In one study, participants were asked to watch a romantic movie and a violent movie, and watching the romance stimulated 2 the viewers' "implicit 3 affiliation 4 motives 5."



Y: What are those?



D: Their unconscious desire for close friendships. Plus, in men, watching the romance decreased their power motives, or their unconscious desire for dominance.



Y: I'll bet the opposite was true for the violent movie.



D: That's the neat part. Changes in implicit affiliation and power motives are associated with changes in hormone 6 levels. For example, the viewers who watched the romantic movie experienced a temporary increase in progesterone levels. But with the violent movie, things were more complicated.



Y: How so?



D: The reaction to the violent movie seemed to depend on the amount of testosterone the subjects--both men and women--had in their blood before watching the movie. Men who started out with high testosterone levels and power motives experienced the biggest increase in both. In contrast, women with higher pre-movie testosterone levels and power motives experienced a drop in both, while women with lower testosterone levels became downright uncomfortable.



Y: Weird 7.



D: While this might have to do with the minor 8 role of female characters in the particular violent movie the researchers selected, this study still helps explain why certain people are drawn 9 to certain types of movies. So as far as the ideal date movie goes, until you check out your partner's video collection, it's probably safest just to go with a romance. 



1 flick
n.快速的轻打,轻打声,弹开;v.轻弹,轻轻拂去,忽然摇动
  • He gave a flick of the whip.他轻抽一下鞭子。
  • By a flick of his whip,he drove the fly from the horse's head.他用鞭子轻抽了一下,将马头上的苍蝇驱走。
2 stimulated
a.刺激的
  • The exhibition has stimulated interest in her work. 展览增进了人们对她作品的兴趣。
  • The award has stimulated her into working still harder. 奖金促使她更加努力地工作。
3 implicit
a.暗示的,含蓄的,不明晰的,绝对的
  • A soldier must give implicit obedience to his officers. 士兵必须绝对服从他的长官。
  • Her silence gave implicit consent. 她的沉默表示默许。
4 affiliation
n.联系,联合
  • There is no affiliation between our organization and theirs,even though our names are similar.尽管两个组织的名称相似,但我们之间并没有关系。
  • The kidnappers had no affiliation with any militant group.这些绑架者与任何军事组织都没有紧密联系。
5 motives
n.动机,目的( motive的名词复数 )
  • to impeach sb's motives 怀疑某人的动机
  • His motives are unclear. 他的用意不明。
6 hormone
n.荷尔蒙,激素,内分泌
  • Hormone implants are used as growth boosters.激素植入物被用作生长辅助剂。
  • This hormone interacts closely with other hormones in the body.这种荷尔蒙与体內其他荷尔蒙紧密地相互作用。
7 weird
adj.古怪的,离奇的;怪诞的,神秘而可怕的
  • From his weird behaviour,he seems a bit of an oddity.从他不寻常的行为看来,他好像有点怪。
  • His weird clothes really gas me.他的怪衣裳简直笑死人。
8 minor
adj.较小(少)的,较次要的;n.辅修学科;vi.辅修
  • The young actor was given a minor part in the new play.年轻的男演员在这出新戏里被分派担任一个小角色。
  • I gave him a minor share of my wealth.我把小部分财产给了他。
9 drawn
v.拖,拉,拔出;adj.憔悴的,紧张的
  • All the characters in the story are drawn from life.故事中的所有人物都取材于生活。
  • Her gaze was drawn irresistibly to the scene outside.她的目光禁不住被外面的风景所吸引。
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afterling
air core transformer
air-dielectric capacitor
amaryllises
apses
artificial island
asymmetric double Vee groove
baby docs
banking terminal device
Bayasgalant
boletus puniceus
break-off type reversing valve
Bromodifluoroethane
carry everything before it
catterick garrison
cebs
cell options
chaplain
cheap dollars
chillax
choroid veins
collective trademark
computer-based-training
cortefs
crissum
curpic hydroxide
dandy cart
DC restorer diode
digital nomads
dodginesses
dormant volcanoes
double beat valve
elishas
endosmose
engineering cost management
escape someone's notice
failure-rate acceleration factor
fayals
feignedness
finite discontinuity
fish in muddy waters
fission-gas monitor
Foto Cahuel
gamma-pipradol
gani's mean difference
GNCA
gold silver bridge
guatemela
Heanor
heat-treated steel
heavy-ion linear accelerator
heteroclynes
hostile attack
in the neighborhood
instantaneous coordinates
king parrot
Kouté
Kutenai
laevoversion
lazy man's load
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Moffen
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Nothing so bad as not to be good for something.
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Nyepi
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penalty method
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plot out the future
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recallable
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