雅思听力在考试中占据着重要的地位,时常用听力材料来磨耳朵可以不断巩固大脑的英语语言能力。以下是雅思听力材料,您可以结合MP3和下方的原文及翻译进行听力学习。
听力原文及翻译
A: So, shall we plan what we have to do for this assignment?
A:那么,我们该计划一下要完成这项作业吗?
B: Okay.
B:好的。
A: First, we have to decide on our research question. So how about 'is there a relationship between hours of sleep and number of dreams'."
A:首先,我们必须确定研究问题。那么‘睡眠时间和做梦次数之间有关系吗?’怎么样?”
B: Okay. Then we need to think about who will do the study on, about 12 people?
B:可以。然后我们需要考虑谁来做这项研究,大约 12 个人?
A: Right. And shall we use other psychology students?
A:对。我们要找其他心理学学生吗?
B: Let's use people from a different department, what about history?
B:我们找其他系的人吧,历史系怎么样?
A: Yes, they might have interesting dreams, or literature students.
A:是的,他们可能会做有趣的梦,或者文学系的学生。
B: I don't really know any.
B:我真的不认识任何人。
A: Okay, forget that idea. Then we have to think about our methodology, so we could use observation, but that doesn't seem appropriate.
A:好的,忘掉这个想法吧。然后我们必须考虑我们的方法,所以我们可以使用观察法,但这似乎不合适。
B: No, it needs to be self reporting, I think, and we could ask them to answer questions online.
B:不,我认为它需要自我报告,我们可以让他们在线回答问题。
A: But in this case paper might be better, as they'll be doing it straight after they wake up. In fact, while they're still half asleep.
A:但在这种情况下,纸质文件可能更好,因为他们会在醒来后立即进行研究。事实上,在他们半睡半醒的时候。
B: Right, and we'll have to check the ethical guidelines for this sort of research.
B:对,我们必须检查这种研究的道德准则。
A: Because our experiment involves humans, so there are special regulations.
A:因为我们的实验涉及人类,所以有特殊规定。
B: Yes, I had a look at those for another assignment I did. There's a whole section on risk assessment, and another section on making sure they aren't put under any unnecessary stress.
B:是的,我有看看我做的另一项作业。有一整节都是关于风险评估的,还有一节是关于确保他们不会承受任何不必要的压力。
A: Let's hope they don't have any bad dreams.
A:希望他们不会做噩梦。
B: Yeah!
B:是的!
A: Then, when we've collected all our data, we have to analyze it and calculate the correlation between our two variables. That's time sleeping and number of dreams, and then present our results visually in a graph.
A:然后,当我们收集了所有数据后,我们必须分析它并计算两个变量之间的相关性。那就是睡眠时间和做梦次数,然后以图表的形式直观地呈现我们的结果。
B: Right, and the final thing is to think about our research and evaluate it. So that seems quite straightforward .
B:对,最后一件事是思考我们的研究并对其进行评估。所以这看起来很简单。
A: Yeah.
A:是的。
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