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Among the following types of books, which do you dislike the most? Romance, science fiction, or biography?
在下列類型的書中，你最不喜歡的是哪一類?愛情書籍、科幻小說或傳記。
I rarely talk about my disdain for sci-fi because I know how much people love the genre.
I prefer fiction that portrays a more realistic world but sci-fi pulls the reader the furthest away from reality. Living in the world of cars, computers, and iPhones, I can’t relate to the horse and carriage world. Nor can I imagine zapping enemies. I am a realist, while science fiction is for dreamers who like the stark contrast that most sci-fi novels pose to reality.
I don’t like reading very many books. When I look at some of the major epic sci-fi series, they span thousands of pages. "The Sword of Truth" totals eleven books. "The ThreeBody Problem," with a meager three books, is positively svelte by comparison. Still, it's a big commitment. Some marriages don’t last as long as the time it takes to read one sci-fi series.
我很少談論自己對科幻的蔑視因為我知道有多少人喜歡這種類型的書。
我更喜歡描寫現實世界的小說，但科幻小說卻把讀者從現實中拉離了到了最遠的地方。生活在汽車、電腦和iphone的世界里，我無法與馬和馬車世界聯系在一起。我也不能想象消滅敵人。我是一個現實主義者，而科幻小說則是為那些喜歡科幻小說與現實形成鮮明對比的夢想家而設的。
我不喜歡看很多書。當我看到一些主要的史詩般科幻系列書籍，他們跨越數千頁。《真理之劍》共有十一本書。《三體》，“微薄的三本書，比較下就非常的苗條。然而，讀這樣的書還是這是一個巨大的承諾。有些婚姻都無法像讀科幻小說的時間那么長。
筆記
Outline
Dislike sci-fi the most 最不喜歡科幻小說 R1: cannot relate sci-fi to reality. Too far apart 科幻小說里生活太遙遠 R2: sci-fi books usually too long. Hard to read 科幻小說一般太長
Vocabulary
disdain n. 蔑視 vt. 鄙棄例句：She watched me with disdain. 她鄙視地看著我。 genre n. 類型;種類例句: R&B is a particular genre of music that I like zapping 原形 zap 用電流快速攻擊 這里指用電流把東西注入生命 類似于destroy meager adj. 貧乏的;瘦的 svelte adj. 苗條的;和藹的 這里指即使短篇科幻小說《三體》也要3本書 太長了。
Romance novels aren’t everyone’s cup of tea but those who are attracted to reading them may be better at empathy than anyone realized.Psychologist Katrina Fong and her research team at York University wanted to pursue this theory so they asked 328 students, the vast majority of them women, if they recognized the names of various novelists.
Once that was established, the subjects were asked to guess the emotional states of actors in photographs by just viewing their eyes.
As it happened, the participants who recognized the names of romantic fiction authors did better at selecting the correct emotion than those who were more familiar with writers of other literary genres.
In trying to explain this phenomenon, the York University team wrote, “Romance is a genre of fiction that focuses on interpersonal relationships” so possibly reading these novels “helps to maintain and improve social skills.”
Then again, Fong and the others cautioned that it might just be the other way around, that those with keener interpersonal skills are more drawn to romantic fiction.
