你能保守秘密吗？

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六分钟英语

Six Minute English

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你好。

Hello.

这里是BBC Learning English的六分钟英语。

This is Six Minute English from BBC Learning English.

我是尼尔。

I'm Neil.

我是贝丝。

And I'm Beth.

尼尔，你能保守秘密吗？

Can you keep a secret, Neil?

还是你会把秘密说出去？

Or are you someone who spills the beans?

这是个习语，意思是把秘密告诉别人。

That's an idiom meaning to tell people a secret.

我挺能保守秘密的，贝丝。

I'm pretty good at keeping secrets, Beth.

除非是剧透电影结局，我老是忍不住。

Unless it's giving away the ending of a movie, I'm always doing that.

不管你是觉得保守秘密很难，还是会把秘密带进坟墓，保守秘密通常被认为不是件好事。

Whether you find it hard to keep secrets or take them with you to the grave, keeping secrets is often considered something bad.

但如果有些秘密真的能让你的生活变得更好呢？

But what if some secrets could actually make your life better?

现在，心理学研究正在揭示秘密更积极的一面，表明把好消息留给自己实际上能让你感觉更有活力，尤其是如果你打算稍后和别人分享你的秘密的话。

Now psychological studies are uncovering a more positive side to secrets, suggesting that keeping good news to yourself can actually make you feel more alive, especially if you plan to share your secret with someone later.

在本期节目中，我们将讨论保守秘密的好处，并且像往常一样，我们也会学到一些有用的新词汇。

In this programme, we'll be discussing the advantages of keeping secrets and, as usual, we'll be learning some useful new vocabulary as well.

但首先，我有一个问题要问你，尼尔。

But first, I have a question for you, Neil.

一个非常著名的秘密就是世界上最受欢迎的软饮料可口可乐的配方。

One very famous secret is the recipe for the world's favourite soft drink Coca Cola.

在印度尼西亚旅行时，BBC电视主持人乔安娜·拉姆利相信她发现了那个不为人知的秘密成分。

While travelling in Indonesia, BBC TV presenter Joanna Lumley believes she discovered the unknown secret ingredient.

那么，可口可乐的秘密香料是a）肉桂，b）肉豆蔻，还是c）姜？

So is Coca Cola's secret spice a) cinnamon b) nutmeg or c) ginger?

嗯，我不知道。

Well, I don't know.

那我猜是肉豆蔻吧。

So I'm going to guess it's nutmeg.

好的。

Okay.

我会在节目最后揭晓这个秘密。

I'll reveal the secret at the end of the programme.

今年，《人格与社会心理学杂志》上发表的一项研究为讨论引入了新术语——积极秘密。

This year, a study published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology introduced a new term to the discussion, positive secrets.

在这项研究中，哥伦比亚大学的迈克尔·斯莱皮恩博士与BBC世界服务节目《新闻日》讨论了积极秘密。

Here, the study's author, Doctor Michael Slepian of Columbia University, discusses positive secrets with BBC World Service programme Newsday.

是的。

Yeah.

关于积极秘密这个想法，有趣的是，你知道，有一类秘密是打算永远不透露的。

So what's interesting about the idea of positive secrets is, you know, there's there's a set of them where the the plan is to never reveal them.

你知道，我们可能会说，一种“罪恶快感”是我们喜欢但不想告诉别人的东西。

You know, we might say a guilty pleasure is something we enjoy but don't wanna tell other people about.

然后还有一些秘密，保守它们的全部意义就在于最终要揭晓，比如惊喜求婚、怀孕公告，或者拆开你亲手包装的礼物。

And then there's other secrets that the whole point of keeping them secret is to reveal them, you know, the surprising marriage proposal, the pregnancy announcement, unwrapping a gift that you've that you've wrapped.

斯莱皮恩博士区分了正面秘密和负面秘密。

Doctor Slepian distinguishes between positive and negative secrets.

负面秘密会伤害他人，破坏关系。

Negative secrets hurt people and damage relationships.

它们就像一种罪恶的快感——你真的很喜欢做，但做的时候又感到内疚或羞愧。

They're like a guilty pleasure an activity you really enjoy doing but which also gives you a feeling of guilt or shame for doing it.

而正面秘密则包括像求婚这样的行为，就是请求某人嫁给你的举动。

Positive secrets, on the other hand, include things like marriage proposals the act of asking someone to marry you.

揭晓正面秘密让我们能与他人分享并庆祝这些事情。

Revealing positive secrets lets us share and celebrate those things with others.

事实上，正面秘密的全部意义就在于揭晓它们。

In fact, the whole point of positive secrets is to reveal them.

在这里，“the whole point”这个短语用来表示某件事最重要或最根本的原因或目的。

Here, the phrase the whole point is used to mean the most important reason or purpose for something.

因为积极的秘密让我们感觉自己掌控了情绪，所以它们让我们充满活力。

Because positive secrets give us the feeling we are in control of our emotions, they energise us.

不过，塞勒皮恩博士的研究来自美国。

However, Doctor Celepion's research comes from The United States.

在其他文化和国家，结果会一样吗？

Would the results be the same in other cultures and countries?

下面再次请塞勒皮恩博士，与BBC世界服务节目《新闻日》对话。

Here's Doctor Celepion again talking with BBC World Service Programme Newsday.

在一些文化中，据说如果是好消息，尤其是关于怀孕的，不要过早分享，要等到安全的时候，因为他们觉得这可能会带来负面情绪，很多人称之为“邪眼”。

Some cultures, it is said that if it's a good news, especially around pregnancy, don't share it till the time, you know, it's safe because they feel that it may lead to some negative vibes, evil eye as many people call it.

这也是你发现的为什么人们保守秘密的原因之一吗？

Is that also a part of what you found why people keep secret?

在保守好的秘密和积极的秘密时，是否存在任何文化影响？

Are there any kind of cultural influences when they keep the good secrets and the positive secrets?

是的。

Yeah.

你提到这个例子很有意思，因为我们正在研究这个。

It's interesting you bring this example because we're studying it right now.

我们有一种直觉，怀孕以及怀孕早期的秘密，看起来更像是一种负担性的秘密。

We have this intuition that pregnancy and secrets around pregnancy, in early in early, in earlier periods, that it looks more like a burdensome secret.

然后到了后期，人们觉得可以舒服地谈论了，就更多像是积极的秘密。

And then and when it's later and, you know, people feel comfortable discussing it more like positive secrets.

在某些文化中，关于怀孕的秘密与“邪恶之眼”有关，这是一种迷信，认为有人通过眼神就能给人带来伤害或厄运。

In some cultures, secrets about pregnancy are related to the evil eye, a superstition in which someone causes injury or bad luck through a look.

过早透露怀孕可能会带来厄运，斯莱皮安博士称这类秘密为“负担性的”，意思是令人担忧、麻烦或痛苦的。

It could be bad luck to reveal a pregnancy too early and Doctor Slepian calls these secrets burdensome meaning worrying, troublesome or distressing.

看来秘密确实因文化而异。

It seems secrets do vary from culture to culture.

但大家都想知道的是可口可乐中缺失的配料。

But what everyone wants to know is the missing ingredient in Coca Cola.

所以来吧，贝丝，告诉我们你问题的秘密答案。

So come on Beth, tell us the secret answer to your question.

好的。

Okay.

我问的是电视主持人乔安娜·拉姆利，她觉得自己发现了可口可乐的秘密辛辣配料。

I asked about TV presenter, Joanna Lumley, who thinks she's found out Coca Cola's secret spicy ingredient.

嗯，我猜是肉豆蔻。

Well, I guessed that it was nutmeg.

那正是正确答案。

And that was the correct answer.

猜得好，尼尔。

Good guess, Neil.

在印度尼西亚旅行时，乔安娜看到很多肉豆蔻在种植，就问是谁在买，结果被告知是可口可乐。

Travelling in Indonesia, Joanna noticed lots of nutmeg being grown and asked who was buying it, only to be told Coca Cola.

好的。

Okay.

让我们回顾一下本期节目学到的词汇，首先是习语“spill the beans”，意思是泄露秘密。

Let's recap the vocabulary we've learned from this program starting with the idiom spill the beans meaning to reveal a secret.

罪恶快感是指你非常喜欢做，但同时又让你感到内疚或羞愧的事情。

A guilty pleasure is something you really enjoy doing but which also gives you a feeling of guilt or shame.

求婚是指请求某人嫁给你的行为。

A marriage proposal is the act of asking someone to marry you.

短语“the whole point of something”描述的是某事物最重要的原因或目的。

The phrase the whole point of something describes the most important reason or purpose for it.

邪恶之眼是一种迷信，认为某人通过眼神就能造成伤害或带来厄运。

The evil eye is a superstition in which someone causes injury or bad luck through a look.

最后，形容词“burdensome”意思是令人担忧、麻烦或痛苦的。

And finally, the adjective burdensome means worrying, troublesome or distressing.

我们的六分钟又到了，但我告诉你一个秘密。

Once again, our six minutes are up, but I'll tell you a secret.

下次你可以再次加入我们，在《六分钟英语》中学习更多热门词汇。

You can join us again next time for more topical vocabulary here at six Minute English.

再见啦。

Goodbye for now.

再见。

Bye.

六分钟英语。

Six Minute English.

来自bbclearningenglish.com。

From bbclearningenglish.com.

无论你在哪里收听，都可以通过BBC播客获取更多内容。

Get more with BBC Podcasts wherever you listen.

订阅Apple播客上的BBC播客高级版，抢先收听你最喜欢的节目，比如《邪恶天才》、《好坏的亿万富翁》和《你死我活》。

Be the first to listen to your favorite shows, like evil genius, good bad billionaire, and you're dead to me with a subscription to BBC podcasts premium on Apple podcasts.

你还可以通过Amazon Music订阅，无广告畅享我们的一系列播客。

You can also enjoy a range of our podcasts ad free with an Amazon music subscription.