Studies dating back to the 1930s indicate that laughter 8 muscles, decreasing muscle tone for up to 45 minutes after the laugh dies down.
20 世纪 30 年代的研究表明，笑能放松 8 块肌肉，使肌肉张力在笑停止后降低长达 45 分钟。
Our ability to mute our hard-wired reactions by pausing is what differentiates us from animals: dogs can think about the future only intermittently or for a few minutes.
我们通过暂停来抑制与生俱来的反应的能力，使我们与动物区分开来：狗只能间歇性地或在几分钟内思考未来。
But in my experience, using such methods to free up the odd 30 minutes doesn’t work.
但根据我的经验，使用这些方法来腾出零散的30分钟并不奏效。
“The future comes at us like empty bottles along an unstoppable and nearly infinite conveyor belt,” writes Gary Eberle in his book Sacred Time, and “we feel a pressure to fill these different-sized bottles (days, hours, minutes) as they pass, for if they get by without being filled, we will have wasted them.
Gary Eberle在《Sacred Time》一书中写道：未来像空瓶子一样沿着一条无法停止且几乎无限的传送带向我们涌来，我们感受到一种压力，必须在它们经过时填满这些不同大小的瓶子（天、小时、分钟），因为如果它们未被填满而通过，我们就会浪费了它们。
After about 40 minutes of shopping, most people stop struggling to be rationally selective, and instead begin shopping emotionally – which is the point at which we accumulate the 50 percent of stuff in our cart that we never intended buying.
购物大约40分钟后，大多数人停止理性选择，转而开始情绪化购物，这时我们购物车里已有50%的东西是原本没有打算购买的。
例句取自历年考研英语真题，翻译为机器生成，仅供学习参考。