2021考研英語長難句復(fù)習(xí)（八十七）

　　

　　And one leading authority says that these intensely powerful mental events can be not only harnessed but actually brought under conscious control, to help us sleep and feel better.

　?、?Of all the components of a good night’s sleep, dreams seem to be least within our control.

　　② In dreams, a window opens into a world where logic is suspended and dead people speak.

　?、?A century ago, Freud formulated his revolutionary theory that dreams were the disguised shadows of our unconscious desires and fears; by the late 1970s, neurologists had switched to thinking of them as just “mental noise” -- the random byproducts of the neural-repair work that goes on during sleep.

　?、?Now researchers suspect that dreams are part of the mind’s emotional thermostat, regulating moods while the brain is “off-line.”

　　⑤ And one leading authority says that these intensely powerful mental events can be not only harnessed but actually brought under conscious control, to help us sleep and feel better, “It’s your dream,” says Rosalind Cartwright, chair of psychology at Chicago’s Medical Center.

　?、?“If you don’t like it, change it.”

　　參考譯文：

　　① (觀點1：分1) 在睡一個好覺的所有因素中，夢似乎是最無法控制的一個。

　?、?(并列：分2) 在夢中，窗戶通向的世界里，邏輯暫時失去了效用，死人開口說話。

　?、?(觀點2：分3) 一個世紀(jì)前，弗洛伊德闡述了革命性的理論，即夢是人們潛意識中的欲望和恐懼經(jīng)偽裝后的預(yù)示;到了 20 世紀(jì) 70 年代末期，神經(jīng)病學(xué)家們轉(zhuǎn)而認(rèn)為夢是“精神噪音”，即睡眠時進(jìn)行的神經(jīng)修復(fù)活動的一種雜亂的副產(chǎn)品。

　　④ (觀點3：總) 目前，研究人員猜想夢是大腦情感自動調(diào)節(jié)系統(tǒng)的組成部分，當(dāng)大腦處于“掉線”狀態(tài)時對情緒進(jìn)行調(diào)整。

　?、?(例1：分1) 一名主要的權(quán) 威人士說，夢這種異常強烈的精神活動不僅能被駕馭，事實上，還可以有意識地加以控制，以幫助我們更好地睡眠和感覺。

　?、?(例2：分2) 芝加哥醫(yī)療中心心理學(xué)系主任羅莎琳德·卡特賴特說，“這是你的夢，如果你不喜歡，就改變它?！?

　　翻譯小作業(yè)：

　　如果我們要保護(hù)野生動物，那么關(guān)鍵是人類的環(huán)保意識以及政府的決策不容忽視。

　　答案：

　　If we are ever going to protect wildlife, it is crucial that people’s environmental awareness and the decision-making of the government be never ignored.

　　課后練習(xí)：一名主要的權(quán) 威人士說，挫折不僅能被克服，事實上，還可以有意識地加以利用，以幫助我們更好地生存和發(fā)展。