What you hear — everything you hear — is shaped in some way by your previous experiences. This is most obvious with music, where training makes it easier to identify component parts of a symphony.

在某些方面，你听到的一切都和你过往经验有关。比较明显的一个例子是音乐，受过训练的耳朵很容易就能分辨出交响乐中各种乐器的声音。

而在这段质量很低的音频中，你的耳朵可能没太听清这个单词，但你的大脑帮你想出了一个答案。

所以，到底是哪个词？

俗话说，“解铃还须系铃人”！

《纽约时报》找到了这场“混战”的挑起者，来听听他怎么说：

The New York Times tracked down 18-year-old Lawrenceville, Ga. high school student Roland Szabo, who had explained on his Reddit feed that he recorded the pronunciation forLaurelprovided by the website Vocabulary.com, directly off of his computer speakers, which accounts for the iffy quality -- and also some of the ambiguity.

《纽约时报》找到了佐治亚州劳伦斯维尔高中18岁学生罗兰·萨博，他解释了Reddit上的音频。他是从Vocabulary.com网站用电脑话筒直接录下来Laurel的发音的，这也解释了为什么录音质量不好，甚至有些含糊不清。

不管怎样，Laurel是正解没错了！

Regardless of the fact that his classmates also didn't agree what they were hearing, the word was still Laurel.

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