中英文本

Remember your kindergarten classroom?
还对你的幼儿园教室记忆犹新吗？
The maps on the wall, the charts of the seasons on bulletin boards, the alphabet over the blackboard?
墙上悬挂的地图，布告栏上的每个季度的课表，还有黑板上的字母表？
I know I spent hours staring at the brightly colored decorations—and not listening to what my teacher was saying.
我记得自己曾花数小时盯着这些明亮颜色的装饰图案—但老师讲的一句话也没听进去vjd&07s^SF]FruGBWK0。
Maybe you did, too.
或许你也有同感e4=Rb_vWQ2jS1#Enm。
And it looks like we're not alone.
并且好像不只是你和我这样BD(c.7u4cX|,T.a9。

The more decorations in a classroom, the more distracted students may be.
教室里面装饰越多，学生们或许就越容易分心iCHu44RVj2-~*vv。
So finds a study in the journal Psychological Science.
这是发表在《心理学科学》杂志上一项研究得出的结论ibQm@&]#s2。
Researchers observed five-year-olds in highly decorated classrooms and in classrooms that were relatively bare.
研究人员们分别对精心及相对简单布置的教室中的5岁儿童进行了观察mXhHQBkGbwqZD。
And the kids were less able to hold their focus, spent more time off-task and had smaller learning gains in the busy rooms than in the bare rooms.
精心布置教室中的孩子们并没有将注意力全部放在学习上，更容易走神儿，记住的知识也没在相对简单环境的教室中的孩子们多@^Yz;guP,ZY|3qEz!gq。
At that young age, attention regulation skills aren't fully formed.
在年幼时，掌控注意力的技能还不甚完善YUtm,M#T5_.IVGD879x。
And yet it's at that stage of development that children find themselves surrounded by decorations irrelevant to what they're learning at any given time.
然而也正是那个阶段，孩子们发现自己处于一间布置精美的教室中，但却和所要学习的知识完全无关-aP5Zb6!cbIIHwMihtZ=。
The researchers are not prescribing a change from busy to bare rooms.
研究人员并没有表明精心布置的教室需要改变aB*g,s5oL=2Ht。
They say there is more research to be done.
还需要更多的相关研究证明WrKa#7I_6+%2IHt。
But this study, along with previous work, suggests that the visual environment can affect how young children learn their reading, writing and rithmetic.
但这项研究，以及之前的相关研究工作，都建议视觉环境能够对幼儿的阅读，写作以及算术等基本能力产生影响wR*[6Z9;V~GJCw+bZ。
词语解释

1.stare at 凝视,盯住

The children stare at the tv and even point to it.
这些孩子会盯着电视看，还会对其指手画脚h4OI~T]#I80H1Eym)。

20 Resolution for 2012: don't stare at the cork.
202012年的小小建议：别盯着软木塞看8^RiJ0jMDa。

2.irrelevant to 与…不相关

Satisfying one's needs and wants increased happiness but was largely irrelevant to meaningfulness.
满足一个人的需求能增加幸福，但和有意义无关S8g9.=I2xQM。

Some are re-reading old texts and concluding that the veil is irrelevant to islamic piety.
一些人重读宗教典籍，她们得出结论认为，面纱与伊斯兰教虔诚无关5C*QFI*zBH-qqpHz。

3.visual environment 视觉环境

The degree of visual satisfaction produced by the visual environment.
由视觉环境产生的视觉满意程度+vzC&%V+i9A。

The visual wysiwyg environment makes it easy to do.
视觉所见即所得的环境，使得它很容易做到6jw_%cGgzJfFMRWW^Whg。