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It's not just in your mind: Researchers believe stress levels really are rising. People who are overweight or inactive experience more stress than others, and that now applies to the majority. Insufficient sleep increases stress, and Americans now sleep on average only seven hours a night, versus eight hours for our parents'generation and 10 hours for our great-grandparents.
這不只是你的感覺(jué)：研究者認(rèn)為壓力水平確實(shí)在上升。體重超標(biāo)或者不活動(dòng)的人會(huì)比別人感受到更大的壓力，而這一點(diǎn)現(xiàn)在適用于大多數(shù)人。睡眠不足會(huì)增加壓力。現(xiàn)在美國(guó)人平均每晚只睡7個(gè)小時(shí)，而我們父母那一代睡8個(gè)小時(shí)，曾祖父母那代睡10個(gè)小時(shí)。
Research by Bruce McEwen, a neuroendocrinologist at Rockefeller University in New York, suggest that modern stress, in addition to making life unpleasant, can impair immune function—again, canceling out health gains that might otherwise occur.
紐約洛克菲勒大學(xué)的神經(jīng)內(nèi)分泌學(xué)家布魯斯•麥克尤恩的研究表明，現(xiàn)代的壓力除了讓生活變得不愉快以外，還會(huì)損害免疫功能——再次抵消本應(yīng)該出現(xiàn)的健康收益。
Prosperity brings many other mixed blessings. Living standards keep rising, but so does incidence of clinical depression. Cellphones are convenient, but make it impossible to escape from office calls. E-mail is cheap and fast, if you don't mind deleting hundreds of spam messages. The Internet and cable television improve communication, but deluge us with the junkiest aspects of culture.
繁榮興旺帶來(lái)很多其他喜憂參半的事情。生活水平不斷提高，而臨床憂郁癥的發(fā)生率也在日益增加；手機(jī)十分便利，卻也使人們不能擺脫辦公電話；如果你不介意要?jiǎng)h除數(shù)百封垃圾郵件，那么電子郵件又便宜又快；互聯(lián)網(wǎng)和有線電視可促進(jìn)交流，卻讓我們淹沒(méi)在垃圾文化中。
