专家：小酌不仅怡情，还能让你的外语说得更流利_时事

专家：小酌不仅怡情，还能让你的外语说得更流利

一项新的研究显示，喝酒以后，你的外语会说得更加流利。研究发现，受试者在喝下酒精饮料后讲外语，发音更标准，专家的打分更高。如果这是真的，口语考试之前，是不是可以先来一杯？！

Take a quick tipple and you could find yourself speaking a second tongue more naturally, according to new research.

一项新的研究显示，一杯酒下肚以后，你的外语会说得更加流利。

The foreign language skills of participants in the study were found to be improved after a drink of alcohol, which suggests the way booze can put us at ease outweighs the negative effects on our brain – at least for the first drink, anyway.

研究发现，实验对象在喝下酒精饮料后，外语能力得到提高，这表明酒精令人身心放松的程度超过其对大脑产生的负面影响——至少喝完第一杯酒以后是这样的。

The international team of researchers is warning against reading too much into their experiment, but it could reveal some interesting insights into the anxiety associated with speaking another language, and how alcohol can help us overcome it.

这支国际化的研究团队提醒人们，不要对他们的实验做过分解读。不过，在讲外语时大脑的焦虑程度、以及酒精如何帮助我们克服这些情绪的问题上，该研究还是提供了一些有趣的洞见。

"Our study shows that acute alcohol consumption may have beneficial effects on the pronunciation of a foreign language in people who recently learned that language," says one of the team, Inge Kersbergen from the University of Liverpool in the UK.