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The Anatomy of Fear
解剖學的恐懼
One nice day you're walking along a wooded path. You come around a corner and there, coiled in the path, is a huge rattlesnake, its rattles abuzz. You are deathly afraid of snakes.
天氣不錯的一天，你漫步在林蔭小道。走到小道拐角一處，你突然發現一條巨大的響尾蛇就蜷縮在那！它還嘶嘶地吐著蛇信。你可是怕蛇怕得要死。
Various parts of the brain signal the nervous systems and organs to prepare to take action. The pupils of the eyes dilate, the thyroid gland raises the resting metabolic rate. The bronchioles in the lungs dilate to admit more oxygen, hairs stand on end. Heart rate and blood pressure rise to supply the body and brain with fuel.
多個大腦部位傳送出采取措施的信號給神經系統和各個器官：瞳孔放大，甲狀腺加快新陳代謝，肺部的支氣管擴張吸進更多氧氣，毛骨悚然，心率加快，血壓上升以便供給身體和大腦能量。
The liver begins to break down sugars for quick energy, blood vessels in the skin contract causing chills and sweating. The spleen pumps out white blood cells in case there is an injury. Stomach and intestine enzyme secretion and muscle activity needed for digestion stop, and blood vessels in the stomach and intestines contract to divert blood to the muscles.
肝臟加速分解糖分供能。皮下血管收縮，身體發冷出汗。脾臟產生更多白細胞抵抗受傷。腸胃酶的分泌及肌肉活動引起食欲不振。腸胃的血管收縮，血液傳輸到肌肉組織。
The bladder and colon prepare to empty, the central portion of the adrenal medulla floods the bloodstream with adrenaline and noradrenaline, constricting the blood vessels, breathing quickens. The entire body is in a state of high alert, ready to stay and fight or say "Feet don't fail me now".
大小便可能失禁哦。血液隨腎上腺素和去甲腎上腺素匯聚到腎上腺髓質的中部，血管收縮，呼吸加快。整個人都處于高度戒備，要么呆在那不動，或者人蛇大戰，再或者告訴自己“我一點都不怕”。
Did you follow all that? Of course not, but all that, and more, happens in your body within seconds of your sensing a threat.
受到驚嚇，身體會做出上述所有反應嗎？當然不是所有咯！但是，當你遭遇驚嚇，身體會在僅僅幾秒內產生更多反應。
It makes us tired just to think about it!
光是想想就怪累人的！
