【kaka礼节美语】204 压力大爆发 1_英语听力练习mp3下载-生活-沪江听力酷

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【kaka礼节美语】204 压力大爆发 1

听力简介：

Jim在走廊上遇到同事Claire，跟Claire打招呼。

Jim: Hey Claire, you've been really quiet these last few days. Is something wrong?

Claire: I've been really stressed. ---1---! I feel like I'm drowning in work.

J: Well, stress is a real thing. It's not an imaginary condition.

C: It's seriously affecting my life! ---2---. Other people seem to handle stress okay...why am I so weak?

Claire最近一直不太说话，原来是因为到年底了，有做不完的事情，I've been really stressed. 她感觉压力特别大。Claire说，I feel like I'm drowning in work. Drown, d-r-o-w-n, drown 溺水，在这里是一种比喻的说法，drown in work 意思是自己快要被工作压垮了。Claire不仅睡眠不好，食欲差，而且还动不动就发脾气，short tempered。大家都有压力，是不是只有Claire承压能力差呢？ Jim说，

J: You're not weak...you're stressed out! Stress has been a part of the human condition for millions of years. ---3---...and as you might imagine, that was pretty stressful.

C: Yeah, but I don't see any tigers or leopards roaming around our office. My stress is just about silly paperwork!

J: But you're actually having the same reaction as our tree-dwelling ancestors! It's called the "flight or fight" response. ---4---...it causes all sorts of chemical reactions in the body.

Jim安慰Claire说，这是身体对过度压力所做出的反应，就好像原来住在树上的老祖宗，随时随地要watch out for predators警惕捕食者的来袭，虽然现代人压力的来源变了，但是Claire面对压力，身体做出的反应还是一样的，这种反应叫 flight or fight response，要在逃跑还是交战之间做出选择。Claire似懂非懂。

C: So a deadline will cause that same reaction?

J: It could. Modern humans actually have more "flight or fight" responses than our ancestors did. They just had a couple of close calls every day, but today, we have dozens or even hundreds!

C: ---5---?

Jim说，跟生活在树上的老祖宗相比，现代人每天面对的flight or fight的情况更多。他们以前每天可能只有几次遇到危险 close calls，a close call指险些发生的厄运，比如 I was almost run over by a car. It was a close call. 我差点没被车撞到，太悬了。如果真像Jim说的，现代人比史前人类 cave man或是cave woman 面对的压力还大了？我们下次继续听。