When people engage in activities that help others, their brain releases endorphins, the brain’s natural opiates, which induce in people a feeling of well-being. It has been suggested that regular release of endorphins increases people’s longevity. And a statistic on adults who regularly engage in volunteer work helping others shows that they live longer, on average, than adults who do not volunteer. However, that statistic would be what we would expect even if volunteering does not boost longevity, because
如果是想楼上说的那样,statistic(实际上就是原文的结论)等同于result we expect,这个result指的是公益活动对人有好处?原文哪里体现了这一点呢?
我觉得全文要说明的就是这点:When people engage in activities that help others, their brain releases endorphins, the brain’s natural opiates, which induce in people a feeling of well-being.(也就是助人为乐的时候,释放endorphines,让人感觉well-being.)
然后说有假设说endorphine越多,就越长寿(也就是说help others就长寿)。然后说了一个statistics来支持这个假设。但是作者最后说,就算help others不能直接导致长寿,也能产生我们所expect的结果(我们expect的是什么呢?就是文章的结论了,我们expect的就是第一句话,help others可以让people feel well-being)。那么C就是我们expect的,除了长寿外的可能结果。
哦,我好罗嗦!
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