(单词翻译:单击)
Your heartbeat increases. Your pupils dilate to adjust to the dark. You see a staircase ahead of you.
你的心跳加快，瞳孔放大以适应黑暗，你看见前边有一个楼梯。
You run up the rest of the way not looking behind you, you turn on the light and your heart on clenches.
你一路跑完剩下的路，不敢往后看，你把灯打开，心里一紧。
Fear is an interesting thing, isn't it?
恐惧是一件有趣的事情，是不是？
So interesting that we Psych2go are here to give you five weird facts about being scared.
恐惧很有趣，所以我们在这里为大家介绍关于恐惧的5个奇怪真相。
1. Some people prefer the treat while others prefer the trick. That's right.
1. 一些人喜欢糖果，而另一些人喜欢恶作剧。没错。
Some people like being afraid. They watch horror movies, they ride rollercoasters and they often take us along for the ride.
一些人喜欢恐惧的感觉，他们看恐怖电影、坐过山车，还要带上我们一起。
But why do these people like being scared? Isn't fear inherently a negative emotion?
但为什么他们喜欢恐惧呢？这不是一个内在的负面情绪么？
When scared, our instinctual survival response kicks into action.
当我们害怕时，我们本能的求生反应开始行动。
This floods our body with hormones and neurotransmitters, making us stronger and faster.
它让我们的身体充满荷尔蒙和神经传导物质，让我们更加坚强，速度更快。
Adrenaline is a hormone that plays a huge factor and gives us the rush some people crave.
肾上腺素是一种荷尔蒙，它起到了巨大的作用，给了我们一些人渴望的冲劲。
Fact No.2. Most of our fears are nurture and not nature.
2. 大部分的恐惧都是后天形成并非天生的。
We are born with two innate fears heights and loud sounds.
我们生来恐惧的东西有两个—恐高和巨大的响声。
Most other fears are learned. As children, we learn that snakes are scary based on the surrounding adults' reactions to snakes.
其他大部分的恐惧都是后天习得的。儿童时期，我们根据周围大人对蛇的反应知道蛇是一种恐怖的东西。
3. The more scared you are, the scarier things appear.
3. 越害怕，就会有越恐怖的东西出现。
Once scared, your heartbeat is increased and you're on red alert for danger.
一旦感到恐惧，你的心跳会加快，你会处于紧急危险状态。
This makes your body more jumpy than usual, at least until the fight or flight response wears down.
这让你的身体更加神经质，至少在战斗或逃跑反应消失前是这样。
4. Fear guides decisions. Do you ever catch yourself going for the safe choice? Everyone does.
4. 恐惧引导决定。你是否曾放弃安全的选择？每个人都会。
Fear stops us from doing things we may want to do
恐惧阻止我们做想做的事情
and funnily enough, it also guides us into doing things we don't want to do.
有趣的是，它也会引导我们做那些我们不想做的事。
As a species, we're more scared of the stick than we want the carrot, and in a lot of cases the stick doesn't even exist.
作为一个物种，我们对惩罚的恐惧多于我们对奖励的渴望，多数情况下，惩罚甚至根本不存在。
5. We can literally smell fear of other humans. We can tell when others are scared from what their sweat smells like.
5. 我们能够嗅到别人身上的恐惧。我们可以根据别人的汗液味道辨别他的恐惧。
Although this is all unconscious so you can exactly sniff your friends armpit during a scary movie.
这完全是潜意识的，所以你可以在看恐怖电影的时候闻闻你朋友的胳肢窝。
Even though we may not realize through our noses, our brain can tell when specific fear chemicals are released from your pierce swept.
我们的鼻子可能意识不到，但我们的大脑可以辨别汗液中释放出的恐惧化学物。
Fear plays a huge part in our lives from roller coasters to skydiving.
从过山车到跳伞，恐惧在我们的生活中起到大作用。
Do you like it? Does it control you? Do you smell other people's armpits?
你喜欢恐惧的感觉么？恐惧在支配着你么？你会闻别人的腋窝么？
Please share with us in the comments below and finally, please don't smell other people's armpits.
请在下方评论告知，最后，请不要闻别人的腋窝啊。
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