时差N小时 胎儿能听到什么声音?(上)

（单词翻译）

Did you ever do this when you were young:

你年轻的时候有没有这样做过呢?

Dive to the bottom of a swimming pool with a friend,then have your friend yell a phrase into the water?

与朋友一起潜入游泳池底部，然后让你的朋友在水中冲你喊一句话。

You listen to the phrase all low and garbled¹, then try to guess what it was.

你听到模糊不清的句子，然后努力猜测那是什么。

This low, muffled², underwater noise is how the world would sound if you were inside a womb.

这种沉闷的水下声音就如你在还在子宫时能听得到的声音。

Researchers have placed tiny microphones inside a pregnant woman's uterus.

研究人员在孕妇的子宫体内安置了一个微型麦克风，

They found that outside noises became much lower and muffled, and about thirty decibels³ quieter.

他们发现外界的声音变得更小更低沉，安静了大概30分贝。

Do these noises just wash around the fetus⁴ like so much amniotic fluid, or can the fetus actually hear them?

这些声音只是像羊水那样环绕在子宫周围?还是胎儿能够听到它们?

Actually, after twenty eight weeks a fetus begins to hear the internal sounds of its mother's body-the rush of blood and the rumble⁵ of the digestive system.

事实上，28周后胎儿开始听到母亲体内的声音-血液流淌声和消化系统的隆隆声。

By the third trimester, the fetus can respond to external noises too.

到了妊娠晚期，胎儿也能对外界的声音有反应。