Noise(噪音)
Noise
ife gets noisier every day and very few people can be free from noise:of some sort or another. It doesn't matter where you live in the middle of a modern city, or a faraway village the chances are that you'll be disturbed by jet airplanes, transistor radios, oil-powered engines, etc. We seem to be getting used to noise, too.
Some people feel quite lonely without background music while they're working. Scientific tests have shown that total silence can be a very frightening experience for a human being. However, some people enjoy listening to pop music which is very loud, and this can do harm to their eardrums.
The noise level in some discos is far above the usual safety level for heavy industrial areas.
One recent report about noise and concentration suggested that although lots of people say that noise disturbs their concentration, what really influences their ability to concerttrate is a change in the level of noise. It goes on to say that a background noise which doesn't change too much (music, for
example) may even help people to concentrate.
噪音
生活日益嘈雜，幾乎沒(méi)有人能夠擺脫各種各樣的噪音。不論你住在哪里——發(fā)達(dá)城市的中心，還是遙遠(yuǎn)的小村莊——都會(huì)受到噴氣飛機(jī)、晶體管收音機(jī)和汽油發(fā)動(dòng)機(jī)的
干擾。而我們也似乎越來(lái)越對(duì)這些噪音感到無(wú)所謂了。
有人感覺(jué)工作時(shí)沒(méi)有背景音樂(lè)會(huì)非常孤單�？茖W(xué)試驗(yàn)顯示，完全安靜的環(huán)境對(duì)人類(lèi)來(lái)說(shuō)是非�？膳碌�。但是，有些人喜歡聽(tīng)聲音很大的流行音樂(lè)，這對(duì)人的耳膜傷害很大。一些迪斯科舞廳的噪音強(qiáng)度甚至遠(yuǎn)遠(yuǎn)超過(guò)重工業(yè)地區(qū)的一般安全標(biāo)準(zhǔn)。
最近，一項(xiàng)有關(guān)噪音與注意力的報(bào)告顯示，雖然很多人抱怨噪音使他們集中無(wú)法集中精力，而事實(shí)上真正影響他們集中注意力的是噪音強(qiáng)度的變化。報(bào)告還顯示，起伏變化不大的背景音(例如，音樂(lè))甚至可以幫助人們集中注意力。