A smile a day keeps the doctor away
每天微笑,永保健康
Read the following leaflet about the benefits of laughter in our lives.
閱讀下面的關于在我們生活中笑的益處的傳單。
Have you ever heard the proverb 'laughter is the best medicine'?
你聽說過“笑是最好的良藥”這句諺語嗎?
Everyone knows that it is fun to laugh and that laughing makes you feel good.
每個人都知道笑很有趣,笑能讓你感覺很好。
Now doctors and researcher are telling us that laughter is good for our health and may even prevent illnesses such as heart disease.
現在醫生和研究員們告訴我們笑對我們的健康有益,甚至可能防止諸如心臟病等疾病。
Laughter helps reduce stress and lower blood pressure and pulse rates.
笑能幫助減小壓力,降低血壓和脈搏速度。
It strengthens the immune system and helps us deal with pain just like real medicine does.
笑能像真正的藥物一樣增強免疫系統,幫助我們對抗疼痛。
In fact, laughter is so good for our health that laughing 100 times a day is equivalent to exercising for ten minutes on a rowing machine!
事實上,笑對我們的健康有益,一天笑一百次相當于在劃船機上鍛煉十分鐘。
Laughter is also good for our minds.
笑還有益于我們的情緒。
When people are stressed, they watch funny films to laugh away emotions such as anger, sadness and fear.
當人們感到壓力,他們會看有趣的電影,用笑來驅走諸如氣憤,悲傷和恐懼之類的情緒。
This is why laughter is increasingly being used in hospitals as a form of therapy.
這就是為什么笑作為一種療法被越來越多的運用于醫院。
More and more hospitals are encouraging patients to laugh.
越來越多的醫院鼓勵病人們笑。
They have started showing comedies on hospital TVs and, on the advice of doctors, clowns visit some hospitals to bring laughter to the patients.
他們已經開始在醫院的電視上播放喜劇,在醫生的建議下,小丑們到醫院里來給病人帶來歡笑。