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Also remarkable is the role of repetition in sparking earworms.
同樣引人注意的是重復播放在觸發這些音樂所發揮的功用。
Songs tend to get stuck when we listen to them recently and repeatedly.
當我們在近期內不斷重復地聽到這些歌時，很可能會讓你無法擺脫。
If repetition is such a trigger, then perhaps we can blame our earworms on modern technology.
如果重復撥放是導火索，那也許我們可以把耳朵蟲現象歸咎于現代科技。
The last hundred years have seen an incredible proliferation of devices that help you listen to the same thing again and again.
在過去100年里，我們看到可以使你一再重復聽取相同內容的電子設備在不可思議般的激增。
Records, cassettes, CDs, or streamed audio files.
比如說唱片、卡式錄音帶、CD片、串流音樂等。
Have these technologies bread some kind of unique, contemporary experience, and are earworms just a product of the late 20th century?
這些技術真的帶來了某種獨有的、短暫的體驗嗎？耳朵蟲只是二十世紀末才有的產物嗎？
The answer comes from an unlikely source: Mark Twain.
答案來自于一個我們猜不到的人：馬克吐溫。
In 1876, just one year before the phonograph was invented,
在1876年的時候，正是留聲機被發明的前一年，
he wrote a short story imagining a sinister takeover of an entire town by a rhyming jingle.
他寫了一篇短文，想像著押著韻的叮鐺聲兇兆般的掌控住整個城鎮。
This reference, and others, show us that earworms seem to be a basic psychological phenomenon,
這個描述以及其他的內容向我們說明了耳朵蟲看起來像是一種很普通的心理現象，
perhaps exacerbated by recording technology but not new to this century.
也許錄音技術令其變得更加嚴重了，但絕非是本世紀的新玩意兒。
So yes, every great historical figure, from Shakespeare to Sacajawea, may well have wandered around with a song stuck in their head.
從莎士比亞到薩卡加維，每一位偉大的歷史人物也許都有一首歌盤踞在腦袋里四處亂晃。
Besides music, it's hard to think of another case of intrusive imagery that's so widespread.
除了音樂以外，很難想到另一個如此廣泛的侵擾式假想案例。
Why music? Why don't watercolors get stuck in our heads? Or the taste of cheesy taquitos?
為什么是音樂？為什么不是水彩畫留在我們的腦海？又或是墨西哥起司卷餅的味道？
One theory has to do with the way music is represented in memory.
有個理論提及了音樂在記憶里呈現的方法。
