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中英文本
Do you tend to get stressed out behind the wheel?
坐在驾驶位置上的你是否感到压力非常大呢？
That might not be a bad thing.
也许这并不是坏处。
Researchers have discovered that teenager drivers who have a high sensitivity to stress actually have lower rates of car accidents than their mellow friends.
研究人员们发现压力敏感的青年驾驶员相比别的司机实际上遇到车祸的几率要小。
Car crashes are the leading cause of death for teenagers, so teen driving is a legitimate public health issue that deserves a lot of study.
青少年非正常死亡最多的便是车祸造成，因此青少年驾驶是一种还是有很多值得研究的法律意义上公众健康问题。
To create a stressful situation in the lab, scientists administered a math test to 40 teenagers, all of whom had recently gotten their drivers'licenses.
为了在实验室内制造出压力环境，科学家们对40多名最近才拿到驾照的青少年进行了数学测试。
The researchers measured the teens'level of the stress hormone hormone cortisol after the math quiz.
研究人员在数学测验后测量了这些青少年的压力荷尔蒙皮质醇水平。
The higher the cortisol level, the more sensitive an individual is to a pressurized situation.
皮质醇水平越高,个人对于压力增加的情况越是敏感。
The researchers then tracked the teens for 18 months.
研究人员们之后又对青少年进行了18个月的跟踪检测。
And cameras mounted inside their cars documented their driving behavior.
而且安装在汽车内部的摄像头记录了他们的驾车行为。
Turned out that the teens who had a lower response to stress actually had higher rates of crashes and near crashes than did those with higher stress sensitivity.
结果显示抗压能力比较强的青年们实际上比那些对压力敏感的人更容易出现事故或者事故未遂。
Calm confidence can be a valuable attribute in some situations.
冷静自信在某些情况下是有显著利用价值的品质。
But behind the wheel perhaps the safer teen driver is just a bit jangled.
但是就开车这事来说，或许还是神经质的年轻司机更安全。
词语解释
1.stress out 承受极大的压力
A simple idea in a stress out and sometimes lonely city.
在一个充满压力，有时颇感孤独的城市的一个简单想法。
But you don't have to stress out about final exams.
但你不必为期末考而倍感压力。
2.car accident n.交通事故
It'd be like representing yourself in a car accident.
就像你在一场车祸中代表自己那样。
Soon afterwards, he was killed in a suspicious car accident in serbia.
就在此后不久，他在西伯利亚遭遇了一场蹊跷的车祸，因此丧生。
3.stress sensitivity 压力敏感性
The u-m analysis found robust support for the link between sensitivity to stress and a short allele in those who had been mistreated as children and in people suffering with specific, severe medical conditions.
密歇根大学分析发现对于压力的敏感度与短等位基因之间的联系在那些儿时受过虐待或者是那些承受着特殊、严重的疾病痛苦虐待的人身上得到了强而有力的支持。
The sensitivity coefficients of main crops to water stress in different development periods in three representative stations on loess plateau in gansu was calculated based on the data of climate, crop yield, soil moisture and crop growth.
利用甘肃黄土高原几个代表站点气候、物候、产量、土壤水分等资料，计算了本区几种主要农作物在不同生育时段对水分胁迫的敏感系数。
