英式接吻是什么(70双语科普)

Why Do We Kiss with Our Eyes Closed?为什么接吻时我们要闭上眼睛

Now imagine all of those beautiful people locking lips(亲吻) with their eyes wide open.

现在想象一下那些美丽的人们全都大张着眼睛接吻。

Intensely(非常) creepy mental images, right?

真是非常诡异的画面,对吧?

There's a reason the thought of kissing with your eyes wide open immediately makes you cringe(畏缩) (aside from the disturbingly(令人不安的) close view of another human's facial features).

你一想到睁开眼睛接吻马上就感到畏缩是有原因的(除了近距离看到另外一个人的容貌会让你感到不安外)。

英式接吻是什么(70双语科普)(1)

Or at least there's a possible reason, rooted in(来源于) a 2016 study from Holloway University of London.

2016年伦敦大学皇家霍洛威学院的一项研究显示或者还有其他的原因。

For the study, psychologists Polly Dalton and Dr. Sandra Murphy fitted participants' hands with small devices that emitted(发出) light vibrations(震动).

在这项研究中,心理学家波莉·道尔顿和桑德拉·墨菲博士在参与者的手上配备了小的装置,这些装置能够发出轻微的震动。

While wearing the devices, the participants were then tasked with completing both mental and visual tasks involving a letter search,

穿戴好这些装置后,参与者们接着被要求完成包括字母搜索在内的脑力和视觉任务,

and had to simultaneously(同时地) report on the presence or absence(存在与否) of the vibrations.

并且需要同时报告震动是否出现。

The researchers found that when participants were asked to complete more demanding visual tasks, they were far less sensitive to the vibrations.

研究者发现,当参与者被要求完成更费力的视觉任务时,他们对震动的敏感度要低得多。

The study itself wasn't intended as an investigation of kissing etiquette(礼节), but it does make sense why people eagerly(热切地) adapted the results that way.

这项研究本身并不是为了调查接吻礼仪,但它确实解释通了为什么人们以那样的方式热切地适应了结果(接吻时闭着眼睛)。

英式接吻是什么(70双语科普)(2)

Kissing is inherently(天性地) intimate and clearly physical — for the brain to fully appreciate the intensity(强度) and sensation, the eyes would have to be shut to focus all the attention on the very visceral(出于本能的) experience.

亲吻本身就是亲密的举动,而且显然是肉体上的行为——为了使大脑充分享受强度和感觉,眼睛不得不闭上以集中全部精力在这项非常本能的体验上。

As Dalton told The Independent,

正如道尔顿对《独立报》说的那样,

"These results could explain why we close our eyes when we want to focus attention on another sense. Shutting out the visual input(视觉输入) leaves more mental resources to focus on other aspects of our experience."

“这样的结果可以解释为什么当我们想把注意力集中在另一种感官上时,我们会闭上眼。关闭视觉输入会留下更多的精神资源来让我们关注自己体验的其它方面。”

我是阁香书院,如果你喜欢看我的英语文章,想看更多的英语文章的话,欢迎关注我,让我们一起学习英语,一起进步吧!

,

免责声明:本文仅代表文章作者的个人观点,与本站无关。其原创性、真实性以及文中陈述文字和内容未经本站证实,对本文以及其中全部或者部分内容文字的真实性、完整性和原创性本站不作任何保证或承诺,请读者仅作参考,并自行核实相关内容。文章投诉邮箱:anhduc.ph@yahoo.com

    分享
    投诉
    首页