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Crying is hardly an activity encouraged by society.

Tears,

be

they

of

sorrow,

anger,

on

joy,

typically

make

Americans

feel

uncomfortable

and

embarrassed.

The

shedder

of

tears

is

likely

to

apologize,

even

when

a

devastating

tragedy

was

the

provocation.

The

observer

of

tears

is

likely

to

do

everything

possible

to

put

an

end

to

the

emotional

outpouring.

But judging from recent studies of crying behavior, links between illness and crying and the

chemical composition of tears,

both those responses to tears are often inappropriate and may even be counterproductive.

Humans are the only animals definitely known to shed emotional tears.

Since evolution has given rise to few, if any, purposeless physiological responses,

it is logical to assume that crying has one or more functions that enhance survival.

Although some observers have suggested that crying is a way to elicit assistance form others

(as a crying baby might from its mother),

the shedding of tears is hardly necessary to get help.

V

ocal cries would have been quite enough, more likely than tears to gain attention.

So, it appears, there must be something special about tears themselves.

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Indeed, the new studies suggest that emotional tears may play a direct role in alleviating stress.

University of Minnesota researchers who are studying the chemical composition of tears have

recently isolated two important chemicals from emotional tears.

Both chemicals are found only in tears that are shed in response to emotion.

Tears shed because of exposure to cut onion would contain no such substance.

Researchers at several other institutions are investigating the usefulness of tears as a means of

diagnosing human ills and monitoring drugs.

At Tulane University’s tear Analysis Laboratory Kastl and his colleagues report that

they can use tears to detect drug abuse and exposure to medication,

to determine whether a contact lens fits properly of why it may be uncomfortable,

to study the causes of “dry eye” syndrome and the effects of eye surgery,

and perhaps even to measure exposure to environmental pollutants.

At

Columbia

University,

Faris

and

colleagues

are

studying

tears

for

clues

to

the

diagnosis of diseases away from the eyes.

Tears can be obtained painlessly without invading the body and only tiny amounts are needed

to perform highly refined analyses.

社会不会鼓励哭泣行为。

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然而眼泪，不管是由于伤心，气愤还是喜悦，都会让美国人感 到不安和尴尬。

流泪的人常常会道歉。即使是因为遭到了毁灭性的悲剧的刺激 才哭的。

而看到别人哭泣的人则很可能会千方百计想办法来制止这种情 感宣泄行动。

但是，从最近的关于哭泣行为的研究来看，疾病和哭泣及眼泪 的化学成分之间存在着某

种联系，

前面所提到的两种对眼泪的反应都 是不合适的，甚至会产生反面效果。

人类是唯一知道通过落泪来宣泄情感的动物。

进化论，即使有的话，也很少会产生无意义的生理反应，

那么按 照逻辑，我们可以设想哭泣对于提高生存能力具有一项或更多的功能。

尽管一 些观察家认为哭泣是向他人寻求帮助的一种方式

(

如哭泣的婴儿 是在向它的母亲

寻求帮助

)

，

但是哭泣并不都是为了求助。

大声呼喊就够了，这比眼泪更能引起他人注意。

由此看来，眼泪本身还一定具有某种特殊的意义。

确实，最新的研究表明，情感性泪水可以直接减轻人的压力。

美国明 尼苏达大学研究眼泪化学成分的研究人员最近已将情感性眼泪中的两种重要化学

物质分离 出来。

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这两种化学物质仅仅存在于由于情感反应而流出的眼泪中。

因切洋葱而流出的眼泪中不含有这两种物质。

其他几 个研究所的研究人员正在研究如何把眼泪作为诊断病情和监控药物的工具。

在图拉 大学的眼泪分析实验室，比特

·

喀斯特博士和他的同事报告说，

他们可以用眼泪去检测滥用毒品问题及药物的性能，

确认隐形眼镜戴起来是否合适或者是为什么戴着不舒适。

还能用 来探究

”

干眼

”

综合症的产生原因和眼部手术的效果。

甚至还能用来测量环境污染特的情况。

哥伦比 亚大学拉瑞斯博士和他的同事们正在研究把眼睛作为线索来诊断除眼部疾病以外

的其他病 症。

不用伤害到身体，眼泪便可轻松获得，仅取少量便可做高度精确的分析。

重点单词

provocation[.pr

?

v

?’kei??

n]n.

激怒，刺激，挑拨，挑衅的事物，激怒的原因

refined[ri’faind]adj.

精炼的，优雅的，精细的

v.

精炼，净化，使

determine[di’t?

:min]v.

决定，决心，确定，测定

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emotional[i’m?

u< /p>

??

nl]adj.

感情的，情绪的

counterproducti ve[,kaunt

?

pr

?’d?< /p>

ktiv]adj.

反生产的

;

使达不到预期目标的

abuse[

?’bju:s,?’bju:z]n.

滥用，恶习

vt.

滥用，辱骂，虐待

substanc

e[‘s?

bst

?

ns]n .

物质，实质，内容，重要性，财产

unc omfortable[

?n’k?

mft

?

bl]adj.

不舒服的，不自在的

lens[lenz]n.

镜头，透镜，

(

眼球的

)

水晶体

assume[

?’sju:m]vt.

假定，设想，承担

; (

想当然的

)

认为

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