研究发现,怀旧有益身心健康_BEC初级作文

研究发现,怀旧有益身心健康

“怀旧使我们更人性。”斯蒂基特博士说。他认为第一个伟大的怀旧者是奥德修斯（Odysseus，《荷马史诗》中的希腊伊卡岛王，流浪十年终回故土与亲人团聚——译注），曾用亲人与家庭的回忆以支撑他度过痛苦的岁月。但斯蒂基特博士强调，怀旧并不等同于思乡病，它并不只作用于离家的游子。即使其历史声誉不良，怀旧也不是一种病。

Nostalgia was originally described as a "neurological disease of essentially demonic cause" by Johannes Hoffer, the Swiss doctor who coined the term in 1688. Military physicians speculated that its prevalence among Swiss mercenaries abroad was due to earlier damage to the soldiers' ear drums and brain cells by the unremitting clanging of cowbells in the Alps.

约翰森·贺佛尔(Johannes Hoffer)，那个最初在1688年发明“怀旧”单词的瑞士医生，将它定义为“可导致器质恶性疾病的神经系统疾病”。军队医生们猜测，派驻外国的瑞士雇佣兵中无比流行的怀旧病，是因为他们的耳膜与脑细胞有过早期损伤。受伤的来源则是阿尔卑斯山上永不停息的声声牛铃叮当。

A Universal Feeling

同样的感受

In the 19th and 20th centuries nostalgia was variously classified as an "immigrant psychosis," a form of "melancholia" and a "mentally repressive compulsive disorder" among other pathologies. But when Dr. Sedikides, Tim Wildschut and other psychologists at Southampton began studying nostalgia, they found it to be common around the world, including in children as young as 7 (who look back fondly on birthdays and vacations).