同学们大家好~你一定听过这首歌“你是我的小呀小苹果”“摩擦摩擦摩擦”，甚至有些时候不知不觉的听到了这些旋律，你就会忍不住的哼唱出来，乃至持续一整天！知道吗，这是一个科学问题，我们有一个特殊名词去称呼它“earworm”，耳朵虫。你会觉得这个词很萌？但就是这有着萌萌的名字的earworm，不知残害了多少人……那么今天，我们一起分享一篇文章的几个片段，讲述的就是耳朵虫，如果你想知道这是啥，跟着王鑫老师一起在科普小文中学英语又get海量知识吧~
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“Earworms”, some people call them. Songs that get stuck in your head go round and round, sometimes for days, sometimes for months. For no clear reason you cannot help yourself from humming or singing a tune by Lady Gaga.
耳朵虫，人们通常这样称呼它，即一首歌在你的脑海中一遍一遍的反复，一遍一遍的唱着响着，有时候会持续几天，有时候会持续几个月。甚者有时候你根本不知道为什么就哼唱起了Lady Gaga的某首歌或者某个旋律。
To a psychologist, the most interesting thing about ear worms is that they show a part of our mind that is clearly outside of our control. Ear worms arrive without permission and refuse to leave when we tell them to. They are parasites（寄生虫）, living in a part of our minds.
对于心理学家来说，对于耳朵虫最有趣的一部分就是他们验证了人类的部分大脑是不在我们控制之内的。耳朵虫就是这样没有经过我们允许就来到了，而在我们让它离去的时候，它又拒绝离开。
If you have got a ear worm you can suffer an attack of it simply by someone mentioning the tune, without having to hear it. This proves that ear worms are a part of long-term memory.
如果你被耳朵虫“侵袭”的话，你会仅仅因为别人提一下这个旋律，并没有真正听见这首歌，耳朵虫就会再次来袭，一遍又一遍的重复其最初的那首歌。这证明了耳朵虫是长期记忆的一部分。
Human have an “inner ear”, for remembering phone numbers, for instance.
人类有内耳，比如可以用作记忆电话号码。
When it gets infected with earworms, rather than review our plans for the day, or lists of things to remember, the inner ear gets stuck on a few short bars of music or a couple of phrases from a song. A part of us that we normally do not have to think about, that should just do what we ask, has been turned against us, upsetting us with a request that we never asked for. The mind is an inner world which we do not have complete knowledge of, or have control over.
当人类内耳被耳朵虫感染的时候，它将不再重新反思一天的计划或者需要记忆的清单中的事物，而是被一个个短的音乐片段或者是一首歌里面的同一句歌词阻碍，下入了一遍又一遍的重复回环之中。通常情况下在我们身体之中无需我们担心的一部分，应该听从我们调遣的一部分，一下子和我们自身对着干，反对大脑的指令，做一些我们从没有要求它做过的事情来以此使我们心烦意乱。我们的大脑处在一个我们未知的并且不受控制的世界。
通过今天的科普小文章分享，孩子们是不是学到了很多东西呢~那么接下来考考自己吧！你能说出以下句子的意思吗？
1.If you have got a ear worm you can suffer an attack of it simply by someone mentioning the tune, without having to hear it.
2.Human have an “inner ear”, for remembering phone numbers, for instance.
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