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It is only when we abandoned this hunter-gatherer paradise for the temptations of agriculture and civilisation that our lives became so ______ with our biological needs.
discordant 不和諧的、不一致的
They spent their days ________ walking in the woods gathering nuts and berries with plenty of fibre.
blissfully 幸福洋溢地、渾然忘我地
preventing us from realising some _____ happiness that our ancestors presumably all shared.
primeval 原始的、遠古的
We ruminate, we obsess, we _____, we regret.
snap
Of course, this vision of a ______ past is not actually true.
carefree 無憂無慮的
We don't know much about the psychology of our hunter-gatherer ________
forebears 祖先、先人
they were just as grumpy and ______ as we are
restless 焦躁不安的、靜不下來的
It is this design that keeps us ________ aggravated, teasing us, prodding us, like a voice from an ancient, animalistic past that whispers into our ear
perpetually 持續不斷地、永久地
It is this design that keeps us perpetually _____, teasing us, prodding us, like a voice from an ancient, animalistic past that whispers into our ear
aggravate 使惡化、使煩躁/加劇
It is this design that keeps us perpetually aggravated, teasing us, ______ us, like a voice from an ancient, animalistic past that whispers into our ear
prod 戳、刺激、催促
another module of the brain whose entire essence is to ______ precisely such a push.
orchestrate 精心策劃、統籌安排
dopamine is the main tool it uses to guide our decisions and motivations, a tool both wonderfully clever and frightfully _______.
diabolical 極其惡劣的、邪惡狡詐的
in a small fraction of patients, caused their own immune system to attack the brain, putting them in a state of _____, or torpor – not quite a coma, but what seemed more like unresponsive wakefulness.
lethargy 昏睡、倦怠無力
in a small fraction of patients, caused their own immune system to attack the brain, putting them in a state of lethargy, or _____ – not quite a coma, but what seemed more like unresponsive wakefulness.
torpor (動物冬眠般的)麻木、不活躍狀態
One of the patients was a young, wealthy New York _______
socialite 社交名流
patients awoke, rose to their feet, and began walking around, striking up conversations with ____ hospital staff.
stupefied 目瞪口呆的、驚愕不已的
Removing dopamine from the brain doesn't simply paralyse it. Instead, it puts it in the dark room – a state of ______ and nonexperience
nonaction 無行動、靜止不動的狀態
Removing dopamine from the brain doesn't simply paralyse it. Instead, it puts it in the dark room – a state of nonaction and ______
nonexperience 無感知、無體驗的狀態
______ awakening
fleeting 短暫的、稍縱即逝的
This changes the "do more of that" logic quite a bit: it implies dopamine is more like a "better than expected" chemical, while its ______ means "worse than expected".
depletion 耗盡、枯竭
Rather than thinking of this dopamine ___ into the cortex as a positive, pleasurable signal, I think it makes more sense to think of it as an imperative signal
jolt into 猛然衝擊/注入(某狀態)