時差N小時:寂寞也能傳染(下)

Following more than five-thousand people for tenyears, the study observed how loneliness canspread through a group. Lonely people, it seems,transmit their sad, lonely feelings to people aroundthem. What happens, according to the study, is thatinteracting with a lonely person can leave you witha negative feeling toward friendship generally. Andso you’re more likely to have negative experienceswith other friends, weakening social bonds. Ifloneliness is allowed to spread unchecked, it candestroy a social network. The best way to wardoff this sort of lonely contagion is to pay more attention to people on the edges of a group.Reaching out to those who are shy or don’t fit in, and are therefore lonely, can make them feelless alone. And so they’re less likely to spread lonely feelings throughout the group.

【生詞注釋】

observe v. 觀察

transmit v. 傳播

interact v.交流，交往

unchecked adj.未受制止的

ward off 避開; 擋住

contagion n.傳染

fit in 融入(群體)

【參考譯文】

對5千多人進(jìn)行10年的研究，研究觀察寂寞是如何在群體中傳播的。寂寞的人，看上去，會將他們的悲哀，孤獨感覺傳播給周圍的人。根據(jù)研究表明，和一個孤獨的人交往會使你對友誼產(chǎn)生消極的情緒。然后你和其他的朋友會有不越快的經(jīng)理，消弱社會紐帶。如果孤獨不受阻止地傳播，它會破壞社會關(guān)系網(wǎng)。阻止這種孤獨蔓延的最好辦法就是多關(guān)注處于群體邊緣的人。接觸那些因害羞或是不合群而感到孤獨的人，這樣會使他們感到不那么孤獨。他們在群體中傳播孤獨的可能性也就變小了。