The study was small but the extent of the improvement was said by scientists to be impressive.______5____ Nineteenth century doctors would have called Dickens’s condition melancholia since the psychological condition of depression was unknown. Dickens biographer Peter Ackroyd says the author’s son Charles remembers his father’s “heavy moods of deep depression” and many times of “intense nervous irritability”,something modern psychologists would certainly recognize6.
词汇:
brisk 轻快的 periodic 周期性的 bout (疾病的)发作
antidote 解毒剂;矫正办法 alternate .交替 euphoria 欣快症,异常欣快
aerobic 需氧的,有氧健身法的 regime 制度 treadmill 跑步机
severity 严重程度 pharmacological 药理学的 melancholia 郁症
biographer 传记作者 irritability 急躁,易怒
注释:
1.to be onto a good thing:to have found a good, easy or profitable situation 找到了一个舒适或有利可图的位置
2.antidote后面常跟介词to, for或against,例如:an antidote to poison:解毒药
an antidote against snakebite:蛇药
The cat is the best antidote for the rat.猫是鼠的最大克星。
3.alternate 后面常跟介词with, between 或from... to...,例如:Day alternates with night.昼夜交替。
He alternated between high spirits and low spirits.他的情绪忽高忽低。