时差N小时 时差会影响运动员的表现吗?(上)

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If you're a true sports fan, you've probably lost sleep wondering if jet¹ lag² affects the performance of your favorite teams.

如果你是铁杆体育迷，你可能会通宵熬夜，想要知道时差是否会影响你所喜爱的球队的表现。

You're not the only one.

许多人和你一样。

To answer this important question, scientists analyzed³ three years of major league baseball games to see if they could find a link between jet lag, and home field advantage.

为了回答这个重要的问题，科学家们分析了职业棒球大联盟三年的比赛，看看能否找出时差和主场优势之间的联系。

They discovered that baseball teams playing at home won over half the time.

他们发现主场比赛的棒球队赢的次数超过半数。

However, if the visiting team had just traveled eastward⁴, say, from L.A. to New York, the home team scored more runs.

然而，如果客队是刚刚去过东部，比如说从洛杉矶去纽约，主队会多赢几轮。

If the visiting team had just traveled west, this didn't affect the point spread.

如果客队去过西部，则不会影响比分。

These findings⁵ support other studies that show that traveling east is harder on your body than traveling west.

这些发现支持了其他一些研究，即向东旅行对身体的的负担要比向西重。