背景介绍

【背景】

为了找出「积极的处世态度」对健康的影响，卡耐基梅隆大学的科恩医生和同事访问了三百三十四名志愿者，评估他们的情绪状况。

　研究人员在每名志愿者鼻子喷上一种名为「鼻病毒」的致感冒病毒，结果发现，抑郁、紧张和容易愤怒的人，患病机会是充满活力、开心和轻松人士的三倍。

　研究还发现，「开心」减少了人们对感冒症状的投诉，即使大家的症状都一样，前者亦更有可能会因患病而抱怨。（英国《每日电讯报》）

台风袭菲五死数千人疏散

　台风伊布都周二吹袭菲律宾，风速高达每小时近二百公里，造成至少五人死亡，数以千计的人逃离家园。

　伊布都是菲律宾五年来最猛烈的台风，于早上十时左右登陆北部城镇帕拉南，吹倒电缆塔，将许多树木连根拔起，并导致道路阻塞和北部广泛地区停电。海岸警卫队说，一艘船只周日在西部的巴拉望岛翻沉，造成一人失踪。

　强风和暴雨在马尼拉导致电力中断，所有政府办公室于周二中午前关闭，官员宣布马尼拉所有学校停课一天。

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英文原文

【英文原文】

You’ve probably heard it said that one’s attitude affects one’s health.Over three-hundred subjects were assessed in terms of their emotions for a two- week period. They were assessed for positive emotions they might be feeling, such as vigor, well-being, and calmness, as well as for negative emotions such as depression, anxiety, and hostility. Then they were each given a squirt in the nose of the virus that causes common colds. The interesting thing is that emotional states had no effect on whether or not subjects were technically infected with the virus, which is measured by evidence of replication of the virus in the subject’s body.

Emotional states did, however, affect the symptoms the virus manifested. People with more positive emotional states were less likely to suffer or complain about symptoms of the cold than people with negative emotional states. In addition, the relative health practices of positive vs. negative people did not account for this result. So there really does seem to be a link between emotional state and illness.

【词汇】Over three-hundred subjects were assessed in terms of their emotions for a two- week period.
对三百多名志愿者进行了访问，并对他们两周当中的情绪状况进行评估。

在理解这句话的意思之前，我们要先看一下 in terms of这个词组。in terms of指的就是“就...而论;在...方面”，

譬如：
In terms of money, he's quite rich, but not in terms of happiness.
在金钱方面，他很富有,但在幸福方面，就不然了。

接下来，我们再来看看assess这个词，assess有“估价”的意思，

譬如：She look at the house and assess its market value.
她看了看房子并估算了它的市场价值。

在这篇文章当中，assess是“评估，评价”的意思，

譬如：How would you assess yourself?
你对自己怎么评价？

Over three-hundred subjects were assessed in terms of their emotions for a two-week period. 这句话的意思就是“对三百多名志愿者进行了访问，并对他们两周当中的情绪状况进行评估。 ”

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