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宿醉地狱:你以后还敢再喝醉酒吗

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宿醉地狱:你以后还敢再喝醉酒吗

http://www.sina.com.cn 2004/11/30 12:41  视听英语Ladder AI杂志

  Hangover Hell 宿醉地狱

  Never again? 不敢再喝酒了?

  “A regular hangover leaves you feeling like you’re going to die,” whispers Mike Fergis, a Vancouver college student, the morning after a long night out . “A bad one leaves you wishing you would die.”

  For 6,000 years, people have been putting their drinking limits to the test, waking up the next morning to blinding headaches and promises of “never again.” Alcohol dehydrates the body, resulting in a lack of the fluid that usually surrounds the brain. So that horrible feeling in your head is actually your brain bumping against bone.

  Alcohol is also a form of poison, so your upset stomach is a sign that your body is reacting against what it sees as an attempt to kill it. Sugar worsens the effect, so sweet cocktails are well known for the unpleasant hangovers they produce.

  While there’s no shortage of old wives’ tales on how to prevent or cure a hangover, one of the most effective treatments (short of not drinking in the first place), is to drink lots of water. The rule of thumb is to drink six glasses of water for every glass of alcohol. This way, you’ll keep your body well hydrated and keep your brain where it belongs.

  In some countries, drugs are now available which claim to minimize the effects of a hangover. One, sold as RU-21, is also known by the nickname “KGB”, because it was supposedly developed to help Russian spies keep a clear head while drinking.

  Of course, one of the oldest hangover cures is to simply drink more alcohol, a practice which has resulted in one of the stranger English idioms: “the hair of the dog that bit me.” Ancient Romans, it seems, believed that the bite of a mad dog could only be cured by burning the dog’s hair and drinking it with water. The bite from the bottle was equally painful and now, asking for “the hair of the dog that bit me” means to drown your hangover in more booze.

  “经常性的宿醉让你觉得自己快要死了。”温哥华的一个大学生迈克•弗吉斯,在出去玩了大半夜之后的早晨轻声地说,“糟糕的宿醉会让你希望自己可以死掉。”

  6000年以来,人们一直在测试自己饮酒的限度,早上在令人目眩的头痛中起床,发誓“再也不敢了”。酒精让身体脱水,结果使得通常环绕着大脑的液体短缺。所以你头上那种可怕的感觉其实是你的大脑在撞击骨头。

  酒精也是一种毒药,所以你的胃部不适表明,你的身体对酒精企图杀死你做出了反应。糖会让这种效果更糟糕,因此甜的鸡尾酒很出名,它能造成不舒服的宿醉。

  关于避免或治疗宿醉,虽然不乏无稽之谈,但其中最有效的疗法﹙除了一开始就不喝酒以外﹚是喝很多水。经验法则是喝1杯酒要喝6杯水。这样一来,你就可以让你的身体保持充足的水分,让你的大脑待在它应该在的位置上。

  在某些国家,现在可以取得一些宣称可以将宿醉的效果降至最低的药物。其中一种以RU-21为名出售,它还有一个绰号叫“克格勃”。因为据说它是为了帮助苏联间谍在饮酒时保持清醒而发明的。

  当然了,其中最古老的一种治疗宿醉的方法,就是喝更多酒,这种做法造成一个比较奇怪的英国俚语:“咬我的狗身上的毛”。古罗马人似乎相信,被疯狗咬了以后,只能烧掉那只狗身上的毛,加在水里喝下去,才会治好。被“酒瓶”咬与被狗咬一样痛苦,现在要求一些“咬我的狗身上的毛”意指把你的宿醉淹没在更厉害的豪饮中。

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