Green Space【绿色空间】

Green Space

Living in an urban area with green spaces has a long-lasting positive impact on people's mental

well-being, a study has suggested.

一项研究表明，在城市中，生活在绿色空间的地方会对人们的心理健康产生持久的积极影响。

UK researchers found moving to a green space had a sustained positive effect, unlike pay rises

or promotions, which only provided a short-term boost.

英国研究人员发现，不同于升职和加薪那样只会让人们得到短期的激励，搬到绿色空间居住

会给人带来持续的积极影响。

Co-author Mathew White, from the University of Exeter, UK, explained that the study showed

people living in greener urban areas were displaying fewer signs of depression or anxiety.

来自英国埃克塞特大学的合著者马修·怀特解释说，这项研究表明，生活在绿色更好的城市

地区的人表现出抑郁或焦虑症状更少。

"There could be a number of reasons," he said, "for example, people do many things to

make themselves happier: they strive for promotion or pay rises, or they get married.

“可能有很多种原因，”他说，“比如，人们为了让自己更快乐会做很多事：他们争取升职或加薪

或者结婚。”

But the trouble with those things is that within six months to a year, people are back to their

original baseline levels of well-being.

但是这些事情的问题在于，在六个月到一年的时间里，人们的幸福感又回到了最初的基准水平。

So, these things are not sustainable; they don't make us happy in the long term.

因此，这些事情不具有可持续性；从长远来看，这些事情并不会让我们快乐。

We found that for some lottery winners who had won more than $500,000 the positive effect

was definitely there, but after six months to a year, they were back to the baseline."

我们发现，对于一些中了超过50万英镑的彩票得主，这些积极影响无疑是存在的，但在六个月到

一年后，他们又回到了基准状态。”

Dr.White said his team wanted to see whether living in greener urban areas had a

lasting positive effect on people's sense of well-being or whther the effect also

disappeared after a period of time.

怀特博士说，他的团队想知道，住在绿化更好的城市地区是否会对人们的幸福感产生持久的

积极影响，或者这种影响是否在一段时间后也会消失。

To do this, the team used data from the British Household Panel Survey complied by the

University of Essex.

为了做到这一点，研究小组使用了由埃塞克斯大学汇编的“英国家庭小组调查”中的数据。

Explaining what the data revealed, he said: " what you see is that even after three years,

mental health is still better, which is unlike many other things that we think will make us happy."

在解释数据揭示的内容时，他说：“你说看到的是，即使过了三年，人们的心理健康状况仍然更好，

这不同于许多我们认为会让我们快乐的其他事情。”

He observed that people living in green spaces were less stressed, and less stressed people made

more sensible decisions and communicated better.

他评论道，生活在绿色空间的人压力更小，压力更小的人会作出更明智的决定，沟通更好。

With a growing body of evidence establishing a link between urban green spaces and a positive impact

on human well-being, Dr.White said,

随着越来越多的证据证明城市绿色空间与人类幸福的积极影响之间存在联系，怀特博士说，

"There's growing interest among public policy officials, but the trouble is who funds it.

"公共政策官员对此的兴趣越来越浓，但问题是谁来提供资金。

What we really need at a policy level is to decide where the money will come from to help support

good quality local green spaces."

在政策层面上，我们真正要做的决定是从哪里获得资金来源以支持优质的本地绿色空间。”

2018年6月CET4真题

解析：

1、mental well-being :心理健康

　　well-being : the state of being healthy 健康

　　mental well-being==mental health

　　physical well-being/health : 身体健康

　　a sense of well-being : 幸福感

2、sustained : 持续的；长久的

　　sustain v. ： maintain the continuation of something : 某物持续...

3、sustainable : able to be sustained. 能够持续的

4、lasting : 长久的

　　sustained; lasting; long-standing

5、short-term : 短期的

6、baseline :

　　a starting point used for comparison. 起点/最低点

　　例句：We need to establish a sensible baseline requirement for our selection. It's not a lottery.

　　我们对于挑选，应该建立最基础的要求，那不是随意的。

7、reveal :

　　make something known 披露

8、a growing body of evidence:

　　越来越多的证据

　　a body of something : a batch/group of something. 一群...

　　the student body : 学生人群（all the students in a school）;

　　a body of researchers : 一群研究人员

　　例：Our student body rises dramatically this year, totalling/numbering 7000.

　　我们的学生人群今年增长了很多，总数是7000.

9、establish a link between :

　　建立...之间的联系

　　establish : set up / build 建立

文中单词

单词	释意	单词	释意
urban	adj.城市的，都市的	mental	adj.精神的；心理的
long-lasting	adj.持续时间长的	positive	adj.积极的，明确的
impact	n.碰撞，影响	researchers	n.研究人员
promotions	n.促销，晋升	provided	adj.预备好的，提供的
short-term	adj.短期的	boost	n.提高，激励
sustained	adj.持久的，经久不衰的	co-author	n.(书等的)合著者
depression	n.抑郁，沮丧	anxiety	n.焦虑，忧虑，担心
reasons	n.理由	strive	v.斗争，努力，奋斗
within	adv.在内部，prep.在...之内	original	adj.原始的，最初的
baseline	n.基线，底线	well-being	n.健康，幸福
lottery	n.彩票	positive effect	积极效果
definitely	adv.一定地，当然	period	n.句号，时期
disappeared	adj.消失的	lasting	adj.持久的，永久的
revealed	发现，透漏	support	n.支持，v.支撑
quality	adj.优质的，质量	funds	v.投资