(单词翻译:单击)
英文原文
做梦：1.入睡后大脑皮层未完全抑制,脑海中出现各种奇幻情景，是人类的一种正常生理现象；2.比喻幻想，白日做梦。是对对方的一种不信任或嘲笑，讥讽的口语词。
【英文原文】
Many of you probably think that the more time you spend thinking about something, the more likely you would be to dream about it. A study suggests the opposite, that if we actively try to suppress a subject, we’re more likely to dream about it than if we were to focus our thoughts on it.
The three hundred plus college students who participated in the study were asked to think of a personal acquaintance before going to sleep. Then a third of the students were asked to focus their thoughts on the person for five minutes, another third were asked to actively suppress their thoughts of that person for five minutes, and the last group was asked to think freely about whatever came to mind.
The acquaintances showed up more frequently in the dreams of those students who’d been asked to put the person out of their minds. The psychologists who conducted the experiment hypothesize that suppressed thoughts resurface in dreams because the prefrontal cortex, the area responsible for mental control, is less active during sleep.
参考翻译
【参考翻译】
你们当中的很多人或许会认为你对一件事情考虑地越多，你越容易产生一种幻觉。但是一想研究发现事实和人们的想法是相反的。事实上是，如果我们刻意地去压抑自己不去想，我们更容易去幻想，更容易将自己的想法放在上面。
300多名大学生参与了这项调查，他们被要求在睡觉之前去想自己的一位熟人。三分之一的人被要求想5分钟，三分之一的人被要求压制不去想自己的熟人，还有三分之一的人爱想什么都可以。
结果表明，那些被要求不去想自己熟人的人，做梦的时候常梦到那些人，心理学家分析认为这是由于控制他们抑制情绪的前脑在睡觉的时候相对没那么活跃的原因造成的
重点词汇
【重点词汇】
1.A study suggests the opposite, that if we actively try to suppress a subject, we’re more likely to dream about it than if we were to focus our thoughts on it.
事实上是，如果我们刻意地去压抑自己不去想，我们更容易去幻想，更容易将自己的想法放在上面。
suppress vt. 镇压，使 ... 止住，禁止
如：Something that serves to suppress, check, or eliminate.
抑制物用来压制、控制或消除的事物
The revolt was suppressed in a matter of hours.
叛乱在几小时之内就镇压下去了。
focus on vt. 集中在
如：He was too shortsighted to focus on the object.
他由於近视过深而无法把视力焦点对准在该物体上。
The focus on my camera isn't working properly.
我的照相机上的调焦装置有毛病。
2.The acquaintances showed up more frequently in the dreams of those students who’d been asked to put the person out of their minds.
结果表明，那些被要求不去想自己熟人的人，做梦的时候常梦到
show up 揭露，露出，露面
如：The dust on the shelf show up in the sunlight.
在阳光照射下能看见架子上有灰尘。
put out of one's mind 忘记，把 ... 忘记，把 ... 置脑后
