Lesson 19 The stuff of dreams

歌曲 Lesson 19 The stuff of dreams
歌手 英语听力
专辑 新概念英语(第四册)

歌词

[00:01.49] Lesson 19
[00:03.88] The stuff of dreams
[00:12.89] What is going on when a person experiences rapid eye-movements during sleep?
[00:21.48] It is fairly clear that the sleeping period must have some function, and because there is so much of it the function would seem to be important.
[00:32.48] Speculations about its nature have been going on for literally thousands of years,
[00:38.80] and one odd finding that makes the problem puzzling is that it looks very much as if sleeping is not simply a matter of giving the body a rest.
[00:48.75] 'Rest', in terms of muscle relaxation and so on, can be achieved by a brief period lying, or even sitting down.
[00:58.93] The body's tissues are self-repairing and self-restoring to a degree, and function best when more or less continuously active.
[01:09.16] In fact a basic amount of movement occurs during sleep which is specifically concerned with preventing muscle inactivity.
[01:19.58] If it is not a question of resting the body, then perhaps it is the brain that needs resting?
[01:26.60] This might be a plausible hypothesis were it not for two factors.
[01:31.71] First the electroencephalograph (which is simply a device for recording the electrical activity of the brain by attaching electrodes to the scalp)
[01:42.12] shows that while there is a change in the pattern of activity during sleep, there is no evidence that the total amount of activity is any less.
[01:52.77] The second factor is more interesting and more fundamental.
[01:57.24] Some years ago an American psychiatrist named William Dement published experiments dealing with the recording of eye-movements during sleep.
[02:08.31] He showed that the average individual's sleep cycle is punctuated with peculiar bursts of eye-movements, some drifting and slow, others jerky and rapid.
[02:20.49] People woken during these periods of eye-movements generally reported that they had been dreaming.
[02:27.40] When woken at other times they reported no dreams.
[02:31.86] If one group of people were disturbed from their eye-movement sleep for several nights on end,
[02:37.64] and another group were disturbed for an equal period of time but when they were not exhibiting eye-movements,
[02:44.19] the first group began to show some personality disorders while the others seemed more or less unaffected.
[02:51.60] The implications of all this were that it was not the disturbance of sleep that mattered, but the disturbance of dreaming.

歌词大意

[00:01.49] dì 19 jié
[00:03.88] huà shuō mèng de běn zhì
[00:12.89] dāng yí ge rén zài shuì mián zhōng jīng lì kuài sù yǎn qiú huó dòng shí huì fā shēng shén me?
[00:21.48] hěn qīng chǔ, shuì mián bì rán jù yǒu mǒu zhǒng zuò yòng. shuì mián zhàn qù nà me duō shí jiān, suǒ yǐ qí zuò yòng sì hū hái shì hěn zhòng yào
[00:32.48] rén men duì shuì mián zuò yòng de zhǒng zhǒng cāi cè, què shí yǒu shù qiān nián zhī jiǔ
[00:38.80] yī xiàng shǐ rén duì zhè gè wèn tí gǎn dào kùn huò de qí guài de fā xiàn shì, shuì mián zài hěn dà chéng dù sì hū bìng bù jǐn jǐn shì wèi le shǐ shēn tǐ dé dào xiū xī
[00:48.75] " xiū xī", cóng shǐ jī ròu dé dào fàng sōng děng fāng miàn lái kàn, zhǐ yào shāo wēi tǎng yī tǎng, shèn zhì zuò yī zuò jiù néng dá dào
[00:58.93] rén tǐ zǔ zhī zài yí dìng chéng dù shàng yǒu zì wǒ xiū bǔ hé zì wǒ huī fù de néng lì, yǒu zhāng yǒu chí dì lián xù huó dòng shí, qí gōng néng zuì jiā
[01:09.16] shì shí shàng, shuì mián zhuàng tài xià réng yǒu zhe jī běn de huó dòng liàng, yǐ fáng zhǐ jī ròu huó dòng tíng zhǐ
[01:19.58] rú guǒ shuì mián de gōng néng bú shì zài yú shǐ shēn tǐ dé dào xiū xī, nà me yě xǔ shì ràng dà nǎo dé yǐ xiū xī
[01:26.60] ruò bú shì xià miàn liǎng diǎn, zhè zhǒng jiǎ shè sì hū shì yǒu dào li de
[01:31.71] dì yì diǎn, nǎo diàn tú jì lù yí bù guò shì yī zhǒng bǎ diàn jí jiē dào tóu pí shàng jì lù nǎo diàn huó dòng de yí qì
[01:42.12] xiǎn shì rén zài shuì mián shí dà nǎo huó dòng de fāng shì yǒu biàn huà, dàn méi yǒu jī xiàng biǎo míng, qí huó dòng zǒng liàng yǒu rèn hé jiǎn shǎo
[01:52.77] dì èr diǎn gèng yǒu yì sī, yě gèng zhòng yào
[01:57.24] qián xiē nián, měi guó yī wèi jīng shén bìng xué zhě fā biǎo le yī piān bào gào, bào gào zhōng jì lù le yǎn qiú zài shuì mián shí de huó dòng qíng kuàng
[02:08.31] tā zhǐ chū, píng cháng rén de shuì mián zhōu qī zhōng bù shí bàn yǒu yī zhèn zhèn qí guài de yǎn qiú duì huó dòng, zhèi xiē huó dòng yǒu de piāo hū ér huǎn màn, yǒu de jí jù ér kuài sù
[02:20.49] zài yǎn qiú huó dòng qī jiān bèi jiào xǐng de rén dōu shuō zì jǐ zài zuò mèng
[02:27.40] zài qí tā qī jiān jiào xǐng tā men, zé shuō méi yǒu zuò mèng
[02:31.86] rú guǒ yǒu liǎng zǔ rén, yī zǔ rén lián xù jǐ yè zài yǎn qiú duì huó dòng shí bèi jiào xǐng
[02:37.64] lìng yī zǔ rén yě shì lián xù jǐ yè bèi jiào xǐng, dàn shì zài yǎn qiú duì méi huó dòng shí bèi jiào xǐng de
[02:44.19] jié guǒ, dì yī zǔ rén kāi shǐ chū xiàn xìng gé shī cháng, ér dì èr zǔ rén sì hū méi shòu shén me yǐng xiǎng
[02:51.60] zhè yī qiè àn shì wǒ men: shuì mián shòu dào gān rǎo méi guān xì, ér zuò mèng shòu dào gān rǎo shì yǒu wèn tí de