Meanwhile the Spanish speakers, who refer to time in terms of volume (as in a "small" break rather than a "short" break), were much better at realising that the same 3 seconds had elapsed, no matter how far the line grew.

同时，西班牙母语者是以体积来描述时间（休息时间“小”而非“短”），所以不管动画中的线多长，他们都能较准确地感知流逝的时间大概为3秒。

"The Swedish speakers tend to think that the line that grows longer in distance, takes longer," one of the researchers, linguist Emanuel Bylund from Stellenbosch University explained.

来自南非斯泰伦博斯大学的研究者，语言学家伊曼纽尔•拜兰德解释说，“瑞典语母语者认为线变得越长，所需时间就越多。”

"Spanish speakers aren't tricked by that. They seem to think that it doesn't matter how much the line grows in distance, it still takes the same time for it to grow."

“西班牙母语者不会受到线长短的迷惑。他们认为不管线变得有多长，所需的时间都是一样的。”

In another experiment, participants were shown animations of a jug slowly being filled up: the length of the animation was fixed, but the jug filled up by different amounts.

另一项实验中，研究者向参与者展示灌水壶的电脑动画：动画的长度为定量，但水壶盛水量不同。

Sure enough, this time it was the Spanish speakers who had more trouble estimating the passage of time.

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