简介：
The Hangover: Part N+1
停不了的宿醉，戒不断的酒瘾
Developing a hangover doesn't prevent or even significantly delay the next drinking bout. Sophie Bushwick reports
宿醉并不能让阻止或者明显地推迟你下一次喝酒。
撰文/播音 苏菲•布什威克（Sophie Bushwick）
翻译 李轩
校对 尹秋媛
“I'm never drinking again. And this time I mean it!”
“我保证再也不喝酒了。这次我一定说到做到！”
Anyone who's suffered through a bad hangover has muttered these words. But does a hangover even delay your next drink?
任何被宿醉折磨过的人都说过这句话。但宿醉真的能推迟你的下次狂饮吗？
Scientists recruited almost 400 adults who consumed alcohol at least once a week. At the beginning of the study, the participants answered questions about alcohol and nicotine dependence. Afterwards, they kept drinking diaries for three weeks. They also kept morning and bedtime reports on their mental status and stress level.
为了研究这一问题，科学家招募了大约400名每周至少喝一次酒的成年人。在研究初期，参与者回答了一些关于酒精与尼古丁的依赖性的问题。接着，他们将三周的饮酒情况记录下来，同时也记录了自己起床与临睡时的精神状态与焦虑程度。
To see if hangovers inspired participants to delay their next binge, researchers measured the time between drinking episodes. On average, hangovers did postpone the next drink—but only by about six hours. The work is published in the journal Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research. [Amee J. Epler et al, Does Hangover Influence the Time to Next Drink? An Investigation Using Ecological Momentary Assessment]
为了查明宿醉是否能推迟参与者下一次饮酒的时间，研究人员测量了他们两次饮酒的时间间隔。研究人员发现，宿醉确实延长了两次饮酒的间隔，但这个时间只有大约6小时。这一论文发表在了《酗酒：临床与实验研究》（Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research）杂志上。
In addition to discovering that hangovers fail to deter drinking, the study found that people with alcohol dependence or financial stress were more likely to develop hangovers. And of course, the only way to prevent hangovers entirely was to limit drinking. Cheers!
所以，宿醉并不能延迟你的下一次狂饮，而除此之外，研究人员还发现，那些对酒精上瘾或有经济压力的人更容易宿醉。当然，防止宿醉的方法只有一个：X酒虽好，可不要贪杯哦~
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