双语阅读英语外刊精讲:跑步与社交的关系

2019-03-30 11:11:00来源:双语阅读

  课后单词练习:

  1. pitfall n.陷阱

  2. monitor n.监控器

  3. tally v. 测量;记录

  4. regimen n.养生法则

  5. map out v. 罗列

  金句讲析:

  1. The new study, published on Monday in Nature Communications, sought to avoid these pitfalls by turning to data from a worldwide social network devoted to sharing objectively measured exercise routines. (The network is not named in the study for contractual reasons, the researchers say.)

  一个新的于周一发表于自然通讯上的研究,力图通过寻求从一个致力于分享客观测量的训练习惯的全球社交网站上得来的数据产生来避免问题。(研究人员指出,该网站的名字由于合同原因没有在研究中提出)

  2. People who join this network upload data from an activity monitor, which precisely tracks their daily exercise regimens. They also become virtual friends with others in the network who seem like-minded. Friends then automatically share workout data.

  参加这个网络的人们通过一个活动监控器来上传数据,该数据准确追踪了他们日常的运动方案。他们也在该网络里跟他们志同道合的人称为网友。朋友们然后自动分享运动数据。

  3. The researchers, from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Sloan School of Management, eventually gathered five years worth of data from about 1.1 million runners from across the globe. Cumulatively, those in the network had run almost 225 million miles during that time.

  这些来自麻省理工Sloan管理学院的研究人员最终收集了来自全球110万跑步者五年的数据。累计计算,该网络里的人已经在该时间跑了差不多2亿2千500万英里。

  4. The identity of the individual runners was masked, but the researchers could tally exactly how often, far and fast each had gone every day for five years. They could similarly map out how often, far and fast their particular friends had run on those same and subsequent days.

  单独跑步着的身份被掩盖,但是研究人员可以测量记录每个人在五年中每天跑步的频率、距离和速度。

  他们也可以同样清晰地弄清楚他们的具体的朋友在那些同样以及随后的日子里跑步的频率、距离和速度。

  5. Using this data, the researchers noted immediate correlations. Friends tended to display similar training routines day to day and year to year, even if they were separated geographically. But it remained unclear whether the runners were influencing one another's distance and pace or just hanging out virtually with people who already ran like them.

  使用这一数据,研究人员立马发现了相关性。朋友们倾向于显示相似的日复一日的和年复一年的训练习惯,即使这些朋友在地理上是分隔的。但是目前人们仍旧不明白是跑步者们影响彼此的距离和速度还是仅仅和已经跟他们跑得相似的人交朋友。

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