英语新闻听写 人们为什么会害怕小丑?（在线收听）

If they're meant to make us laugh, then why are some people so afraid of clowns? Business Insider recently spoke with Dr. Dena Rabinowitz, a clinical psychologist specializing in anxiety disorders.

小丑的本意是为了让我们笑，那么为什么一些人会害怕他们呢？商业内幕最近与专治焦虑症的临床心理学家德娜·拉比诺维茨进行了谈话。

Rabinowitz says, "There two things about clowns that kind of inherently lead people to be frightened of them. The first is that we rely a lot on facial expressions to understand people and see their motivations. And with clowns you don't have facial expressions. It's all under makeup, and it's fixed. And so there's a kind of a question of, "what's going on under there?"

拉比诺维茨说“小丑有两种东西会让人们出于本能地害怕他们。第一就是我们很大程度上依靠面部表情来了解别人并判断他们的动机。而小丑没有面部表情。全部都被固定的妆容覆盖住了。所以人们会想‘这张脸下面在想些什么’？”

The second thing is people don't inherently trust people who are always happy and laughing. For a lot of people, the fear of clowns actually is part of a more general fear of masked creatures. In regular parlance it's called: coulrophobia."

“第二点就是人们天生不太相信那些永远开心和大笑的人。对很多人而言，对小丑的恐惧其实是对戴着面具的生物的恐惧。它的通常说法叫做：小丑恐惧症。”