One day you’re heading to the beach for a fun day in the sun and the next you’re hanging lights and tinsel on a Christmas tree.
某天你可能還在去沙灘玩耍的路上，陽光明媚，轉(zhuǎn)眼第二天就開始給圣誕樹掛金箔燈飾了。

It feels like time speeds up more and more every year, but it’s actually technology speeding up our perception of time, one researcher says.
研究人員稱，每過一年，人們都覺得時(shí)間過得越來越快，但實(shí)際上，是因?yàn)楦呖萍籍a(chǎn)品讓我們覺得時(shí)間變快了。

Smartphones, tablets and other gadgets have trained our brains to process more information, tricking us into thinking time is passing faster than it really is, according to a recent study.
最新研究表明，智能手機(jī)、平板電腦等設(shè)備迫使我們的大腦處理更多信息，讓我們覺得時(shí)光流逝的速度在變快。

Even just reading a simple advertisement, subjects perceived time as passing more quickly, than compared to the other group that a long monologue from a ‘real’ book.
通過兩個(gè)試驗(yàn)小組的對比，研究人員發(fā)現(xiàn)，與閱讀“實(shí)體”書上一大段獨(dú)白的受試組相比，另一組即使僅看一則簡單的廣告也覺得時(shí)間過得更快。

"It's almost as though we're trying to emulate the technology and be speedier and more efficient," James Cook University researcher Dr Aoife McLoughlin said.
詹姆斯庫克大學(xué)研究人員麥克洛克林稱：“仿佛我們在試圖跟上科技的腳步，因而行事不得不更快速、更高效?！?/p>

"It seems like there's something about technology itself that primes us to increase that pacemaker inside of us that measures the passing of time."
“感覺就像科技有某種魔力，使人體內(nèi)衡量時(shí)間快慢的感官加速運(yùn)行?！?/p>

The findings prove what most have known all along: we need to stop and smell the roses.
這項(xiàng)研究證明了一條眾所周知的真理：我們應(yīng)該學(xué)會(huì)放慢腳步，享受生活。

In order to stop time from rushing by we need to unplug from the World Wide Web each week to slow down our pacemakers, the study suggested.
該研究建議，為了讓時(shí)間過得慢一些，我們應(yīng)該減少每周的上網(wǎng)時(shí)間，讓我們體內(nèi)的時(shí)間感官慢下來。

Vocabulary
tinsel：金屬箔
emulate：盡力趕上

英文來源：每日郵報(bào)
譯者：許惠妮
審校&編輯：杜娟