英语四级晨读100篇精华版031：The More Skilled, the Less Absent-minded 越熟练，越健忘

　　The More Skilled, the Less Absent-minded 越熟练，越健忘

　　Professor Smith recently persuaded 35 people, 23 of them women, to keep a diary of all their absent-minded actions for a fortnight. When he came to analyse their embarrassing lapses in a scientific report, he was surprised to find that nearly all of them fell into a few groupings, nor did the lapses appear to be entirely random .

　　史密斯教授最近说服了35个人，其中有23位妇女，坚持记两周日记，把他们所有心不在焉的行为都记下来。当他在一份科研报告中分析这些令人尴尬的差错时，他惊奇地发现几乎所有的差错都可以分门别类。

　　One of the women, for instance, on leaving her house for work one morning threw her dog her earrings and tried to fix a dog biscuit on her ear. the explanation for this is that the brain is like a computer, explains the professor. People programme themselves to do certain activities regularly. It was the womans custom every morning to throw her dog two biscuits and then put on her earrings. But somehow the action got reversed in the programme, About one in twenty of the incidents the volunteers reported were these programme assembly failures,

　　例如，其中的一位妇女早晨离家上班的时候，把她的耳环扔给了她的狗，却试图把宠物饼干戴在耳朵上。对这种行为的解释是，大脑就像是计算机教授说，人们为自己设定好了程序去做一些经常性的事务。对这位妇女来说，扔给她的狗两块饼干，然后戴上耳环是每天早晨的习惯。但是，有时候程序中的步骤颠倒了。报告中受试者的差错约有二十分之一属于此类程序排列错误。

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