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60秒科学:If Time Flew, You Had Fun

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If Time Flew, You Had Fun
A study in the journal Psychological Science finds that if people believe that time has flown, they think they had more fun. Karen Hopkin reports

As we all know, time flies when you’re having fun. But according to a study in the journal Psychological Science, the reverse1 is just as true: we enjoy ourselves more when we think time passes quickly.

Time is a tough thing to keep track of. Sometimes it zooms2, other times it drags. And psychologists got to wondering, as psychologists often do: how does that make you feel?

So they asked people to take a 10-minute test. And then they pulled a fast one: For half the volunteers, they called “time’s up” when only five minutes had passed. The other half had to labor3 for 20 minutes before their 10-minute test was done. The result? Compared with the folks for whom time stood still, the finished-in-five team said they had more fun.
 


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1 reverse tsjym     
v.推翻，颠倒，反向；n.反面，逆境；adj.反向的
参考例句：
  • His answer was just the reverse of what I expected.他的回答正好与我期望的相反。
  • Please reverse the positions of two pictures.请把两张图片的位置倒转过来。
2 zooms 3787a3a7f3dc07c165965dded1d0ff1f     
n.嗡嗡声( zoom的名词复数 )；隆隆声；（车辆等）疾驰的声音；变焦
参考例句：
  • A sneeze zooms out of your mouth at over 600 m.p.h. 从你口中打出的喷嚏速度可达每小时600里。 来自互联网
  • When the camera zooms in, the whole world watches out. 当镜头对准（汶川），全世界都在关注。 来自互联网
3 labor P9Tzs     
n.劳动，努力，工作，劳工；分娩；vi.劳动，努力，苦干；vt.详细分析；麻烦
参考例句：
  • We are never late in satisfying him for his labor.我们从不延误付给他劳动报酬。
  • He was completely spent after two weeks of hard labor.艰苦劳动两周后，他已经疲惫不堪了。

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