时差N小时 如何预测棒球比赛成绩(上)

If you're a true sports fan, you've probably lost sleep wondering if jet¹ lag² affects the performance of your favorite teams.

如果你是铁杆体育迷，你可能会通宵熬夜，想要知道时差是否会影响你所喜爱的球队的表现。

You're not the only one.

许多人和你一样。

To answer this important question, scientists analyzed³ three years of major league baseball games to see if they could find a link between jet lag, and home field advantage.

为了回答这个重要的问题，科学家们分析了职业棒球大联盟三年的比赛，看看能否找出时差和主场优势之间的联系。

They discovered that baseball teams playing at home won over half the time. However, if the visiting team had just traveled eastward⁴, say, from L.A. to New York, the home team scored more runs.

他们发现主场比赛的棒球队赢的次数超过半数。然而，如果客队是刚刚去过东部，比如说从洛杉矶去纽约，主队会多赢几轮。

If the visiting team had just traveled west, this didn't affect the point spread.

如果客队去过西部，则不会影响比分。

These findings⁵ support other studies that show that traveling east is harder on your body than traveling west.

这些发现支持了其他一些研究，即向东旅行对身体的的负担要比向西重。

1 jet   

n.喷气发动机，喷气式飞机；v.喷出，喷射

参考例句：

• Put a match to the jet to light the gas.将火柴放在煤气喷嘴上点燃煤气。
• I don't see the jet of your plan.我不明白你的计划的要点。

2 lag   

vi.走得慢，落后；n.滞后，(时间上的)间隔

参考例句：

• Ten minutes later,some of runners in the race began to lag.十分钟后，有些参赛的人开始落后了。
• There is a time lag of about fifteen years.时间上有一段约15年的间隔。

3 analyzed   

v.分析( analyze的过去式和过去分词 )；分解；解释；对…进行心理分析

参考例句：

• The doctors analyzed the blood sample for anemia. 医生们分析了贫血的血样。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• The young man did not analyze the process of his captivation and enrapturement, for love to him was a mystery and could not be analyzed. 这年轻人没有分析自己蛊惑著迷的过程，因为对他来说，爱是个不可分析的迷。 来自《简明英汉词典》

4 eastward   

adv.向东；adj.向东的；n.东方，东部

参考例句：

• The river here tends eastward.这条河从这里向东流。
• The crowd is heading eastward,believing that they can find gold there.人群正在向东移去，他们认为在那里可以找到黄金。

5 findings   

n.发现物( finding的名词复数 )；调查（或研究）的结果；（陪审团的）裁决

参考例句：

• It behoves us to study these findings carefully. 我们理应认真研究这些发现。
• Their findings have been widely disseminated . 他们的研究成果已经广为传播。