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夥伴們，你們的假期過得怎麼樣？收收心，準備過聖誕，元旦，還有春節……

休息要充分，學習不能停！

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今天的文章：

The shorter your sleep, the shorter your life: the new sleep science

Leading neuroscientist Matthew Walker on why sleep deprivation is increasing our risk of cancer, heart attack and Alzheimer』s – and what you can do about it

leading 頂級的； neuroscientist 神經系統科學家；sleep deprivation 睡眠不足；Alzheimer』s 老年痴呆症

By Rachel Cooke

Matthew Walker has learned to dread the question 「What do you do?」

has learned to dread the question 開始害怕這個問題；

At parties, it signals the end of his evening; thereafter, his new acquaintance will inevitably cling to him like ivy.

it signals…這預示著……； thereafter 此後；new acquaintance 剛剛結識的人； inevitably 不可避免地； cling to sb. 緊緊抓住某人； ivy 常春藤

On an aeroplane, it usually means that while everyone else watches movies or reads a thriller, he will find himself running an hours-long salon for the benefit of passengers and crew alike.

aeroplane 飛機； thriller 驚險小說； run an hours-long salon 開了個把小時的沙龍； passengers and crew alike 乘客和機組人員等等

「I』ve begun to lie,」 he says. 「Seriously. I just tell people I』m a dolphin trainer. It』s better for everyone.」

dolphin trainer 海豚訓練師；

Walker is a sleep scientist.

To be specific, he is the director of the Center for Human Sleep Science at the University of California, Berkeley, a research institute whose goal – possibly unachievable – is to understand everything about sleep』s impact on us, from birth to death, in sickness and health.

to be specific 具體地說； a research institute 同位語；possibly unachievable 可能無法實現（插入語）；

No wonder, then, that people long for his counsel.

no wonder 難怪； long for sth. 渴望某事物，那麼相應地long for sb. 意思就是「思念某人」； counsel 勸告，忠告

As the line between work and leisure grows ever more blurred, rare is the person who doesn』t worry about their sleep.

blurred 模糊不清的； rare is the person 是倒裝句，正常語序是the person is rare 這樣的人是很少的，意即很少有這樣的人;

But even as we contemplate the shadows beneath our eyes, most of us don』t know the half of it – and perhaps this is the real reason he has stopped telling strangers how he makes his living.

contemplate 凝視； the shadows beneath our eyes 黑眼圈； don』t know the half of it 不知道更糟糕的，一知半解；how he makes his living （當作一個名詞即可）他的生活方式

When Walker talks about sleep he can』t, in all conscience, limit himself to whispering comforting nothings about camomile tea and warm baths.

in all conscience 憑良心講（插入語，閱讀時可先跳過）； limit oneself to+名詞（或doing）把自己限制在……之內； comforting nothings 令人安慰的廢話； camomile tea 菊花茶； warm baths 熱水澡

It』s his conviction that we are in the midst of a 「catastrophic sleep-loss epidemic」, the consequences of which are far graver than any of us could imagine.

conviction 確信（名詞）； in the midst of 處於……之中； catastrophic 災難性的； sleep-loss 睡眠缺失的； epidemic 流行病（流行風尚）; grave 嚴重的

This situation, he believes, is only likely to change if government gets involved.

be likely to 有可能； get involved 介入

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