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👋The Surprising Science Behind Friendship
友誼背後出人意料的科學
👏At its simplest, it’s just how critical quality social bonds and friendships are. In animals, the big measures that evolutionary biologists study are reproductive success, which they count as either how many babies you have or how long those babies live, and longevity, or how long you survive. Nonhuman primates have very structured hierarchies that they exist in, and everyone assumed that that must have more importance for how long you live and how many babies you have and how healthy they are. And it wasn’t. The most important thing was the strength of the social bonds, how positively and well and regularly an individual animal interacted with other animals. Scientists really couldn’t believe it.
簡單來說，有品質的社會關係以及友誼非常重要。在動物界，演化科學家研究的主要指標包括繁殖成功率，即某隻動物的後代數量或幼獸存活時間；以及壽命，即動物自身的生存時間。非人類靈長類動物在森嚴的等級制度內生存，人們以為這種等級制度對動物的壽命長短、幼獸數量以及健康狀況影響更為重大。然而，事實並非如此，社會連結的強度，以及個體與族群中其他成員積極、良好及有規律的互動才是影響個體生存最重要的因素。科學家對這一發現感到十分震驚。
-longevity: 壽命
-hierarchy: 階級
-assume: 假設
💪Friendship literally improves your body’s cardiovascular functioning, how your immune system works, how you sleep. You can imagine the food you put in your body makes you healthy or not. But sitting in a coffee shop with someone and just chatting about what’s going on with your life, we always thought emotionally that made you feel good. But actually it really is doing much more.
就像攝入的食物決定我們是否身體健康一樣，友誼能改善我們的心血管功能、增強免疫力、提高睡眠質量。與好友相約，喝喝咖啡、聊聊自己的近況，我們總認為這些活動僅能起到放鬆心情的作用。但實際上，其作用遠不止於此。
-cardiovascular: 心血管相關的（cardio：心臟的）
-put in: 放置；放入（在文章脈絡中是攝取的意思）
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🎤There’s this interesting chemistry to friendship. Just like in romance, you are more drawn to some people than you are others. Some of it is very straightforward: You are interested in the same things, you spend time in the same place. That’s one reason why we are close to relatives, because you have a head start, you spend more time with them than you do anyone else. We do tend to be better friends with people who are more like us.
朋友間也存在有趣的化學反應。與兩情相悅類似，我們會被具有某些特質的人吸引。還有些原因非常直接：同樣的興趣愛好；經常在同一地點碰面。這也解釋了為什麼親人之間往往關係更為緊密，因為你們從小在一起，你和他們相處的時間甚於其他任何人。我們也確實傾向於和與自己相似的人交朋友。
-draw to: 受…吸引
-straightforward: 直截了當；直接的
-head start: 領先；佔得的先機、優勢
未完待續...
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❓❓多益模擬題❓:
The reason behind people being attracted to one and not the other is _________: you are interested in the same things, you spend time in the same space. We often ______ being around with friends does us good emotionally, but it’s actually doing so much more.
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A. straightforward / assume
B. direct / assumes
C. straightforward / assumed
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